A fellow bored blogger!

How delightful to see an entry again!

I've had a weekend off from study to put on my painter/decorator hat - helping Greg re-do his room. I never imagined I would get excited by curtain rails?!

Ilia you missed an extremely tedious Systems Management lecture on Thursday. Seriously, you would have been tearing your hair out.

Happy essay writing. Are you jetting off soon? Safe trip for when you leave - I've already embraced the season of over indulgence - will be rolling back to school like a barrel.

xxx

No more blog

Don't know if either of you will check this again . . .

I've really enjoyed keeping the blog. I have to admit I wasn't entirely sure what the point in them was until we started using one for our project.

Anyway, I may try to keep it going . . . even if it's just a means of distracting me when I'm supposed to be doing proper work.

xxx

Domain Name

Carly,

I've had a look on the internet and apparently we could get www.graduart.net for £8.99/year. Unfortunately, www.graduart.co.uk has been taken :o(

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Clean up

Hey,

Ok so the report is essentially done and dusted I think. There are, however, a few grammatical bits and pieces that need cleaning up before the hand-in on Wednesday, which I will do today and email the changes to you both. Ilia I know you are doing some formatting stuff to it and I don't want to mess that up so I'll make the changes - there are just a few and shouldn't affect the presentation - in a different colour so they are easy for you to see.

Also, in the expenses bit should we include domain name registration?

And Ilia, where is the dividing line of our respective sections for the presentation?

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Some good news!

Just had a response from Claire Warwick and she says the layout description can be included as an appendix outwith the work limit. So, I think we're about done if you are both happy with my edit. The contents page will need to be sorted and the appendices added. I think the latter should be a seperate document entirely just to make absolutely clear that it's not part of the report.

In the Customers section perhaps we need to make more of the buyers, not just users?

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Markup is not vital. You may have been talking to some of the publishers, whom I've told they don't need to worry about markup, as they don't study HTML. Obviously ECP students do, but the assessment of this project is mainly based on the report, and the sample is just that- a way to demonstrate the kind of thing you would be working with. So don't make it a priority.

Yes you absolutely must stick to the word limit. I know it's hard to cut, but this is a really important skill to have. If somebody like a senior editor in a publishing firm asks you for a report of a certain length they expect you to stick to it, as they are generally busy, and don't want to read any more content than they asked for. Thus I take the same view. Sorry!

Claire

I emailed Claire about markup/word count. This is the response so - better get editing!

Edit

Hi Girls,

I've had a go at editing the report and I think it's ok. It's much easier to edit other peoples work than your own so please feel free to hack some more off my sections!

I will email it to you both now.

Just a wee bit over 3500!

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