IST 195 Week5---Bits and Bytes

   Last week during the lecture, our class learned what’s bits and bytes, the difference between MP3 and WAV storage type, and how to get the MP3 from the storage type of WAV.

   In fact, I didn’t find it is a lecture that quite related to my doll project since my doll project is hardly related to sound effect or bits. The only thing that I find will be helpful for my project is the color depth part. So now I know the different image effects of various bit depths, and as the bit depth becomes bigger, the image will actually be more colorful and vivid. It reminds me to pay attention to the bit depth of the doll website when I am making it.

   Moreover, I learn names of different size amount, and by knowing that the amount of free storage space that I get with blog is around 3GB, it actually helps me to recognize the available free space that our doll website should provide to our customers. 

IST195 Week 4---Input &Output

   Last Monday our class had a lecture about input and Output. Materials are really interesting and they are various input or output devices. The one that I am really interested about is an input innovation---RFID. 

   I think the RFID technology can really help to increase the productivity. Instead of putting old Barcodes on our products (dolls), we can replace them to the new technology—RFID tags. In this case, there’s no need orientate scanned items, products for different customs can leave our factory at the same time without being scanned by a scanned machine one at a time. Moreover, the new RFID technology is more accurate than the old barcode technology, and it usually makes no mistakes.  

   RFID tags are not expensive, and the best thing about it is that we can mount any RFID tags on our dolls since they can be mounted various types of materials. Therefore, it doesn’t affect the cute outward appearance of our dolls. Also, because of the type of our product, passive tags will be more necessary and better. Varied microchips may also be included in our products for different kinds of doll collections.

IST 195 Week 3---Digital Video

       Last week we learned two chapters which contains basic information about Hardware Components and Digital Video. Since my project concentrates on making children’s own dolls online, Digital Video will be an important tool that I will use throughout my project.  
       In order to stand out from thousands of web companies and to keep our business going and being successful, I will definitely take good use from various digital Video. By using tool, like flash, I can design several short videos to publicize our doll products. For example, one can be a brief introduction about our company, our cooperative partners, the uniqueness of our doll products and commercial standings of our products and factories, so more people will know and be interested in dolls that our company manufactures after videos are posted on medias, such as YouTube. 

The other video will be designed and showed as a short cartoon. The audiences of our cartoon video are our main customers---kids. The main characters of the cartoon will be dolls from our company. Our goal is to bring happiness to kids by cartoon, and at the same time, they will easily accept our products. In addition, as the technology develops, we will change the digital tools that we use some advanced streaming formats, such as HTML.

IST195 Week 2-Excel Application and Digital Images

    Last week we studied Excel Application and Digital Images. I think both materials can improve my project. For Digital Images, we can use them to change the color of my website in order to make it more attractive to kids. Therefore, there are two main goals about the color of my website. 

First, since the key point of my doll website is that the kid can pick their favorites, the doll website will use colors that will not hurt kids’ eyes. Second, under the first condition, we will choose several different background colors for our website. The background color will change automatically and randomly each time when our custom click on our website, so the freshness will stay. Each time the kid clicks on our website, it will feel like a new start.

   The Excel application will be an important part for my doll website. To have a better idea about how well my business runs after a period of time, I need to look at the record of the cost of materials, transportations and revenue through excel application. After I get the exact date of those information, I will know how well the doll website works in the market. Then, I might adjust the price of different collections or reduce some cost to make it more profitable.