Monday, August 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Stonefest website link
My rational are the blog posts 'Stonfest Task' and 'Stonefest Task part 2'.
At the end of 'Part 2' I have placed a link to my Stonefest Website, however for easy ness I will place a link below as well.
http://www.stonefestindex.host56.com/
At the end of 'Part 2' I have placed a link to my Stonefest Website, however for easy ness I will place a link below as well.
http://www.stonefestindex.host56.com/
Week 11-13 Blog Post
I have been reviewing my draft Stonefest pages and am finding very difficult to recreate my draft in dreamweaver with codes. It was much easier in illustratior to just put everything togther, but reconstructing the pages now for my site is not really working. Its actually quite fustrating.
For these past weeks I've been trying to start something but my background that I made, which can be seen in the draft imagaes are too diffucult to reconstruct in dreamweaver and when uploaded as a jpeg looks stretched and tacky and dosent go with my banner at all.
My banner is simple a chunck taken out of my ilustration with 'Stonefest' written across it. Now I see that the background and banner dont create a specfic look and/or feel when viewed, it just ooks really cluttered and messy. The problem might also be that they clash and there are too many colours next to each other that shouldn't be.
I showed my fixed up drafts (I fixed them after the feedback I recieved) to several friends and people I new to get some more feed back from the 'audience'. This is where i found out that the colours were not working with each other. The colours were also drowning out the text.
Therefore I changed the design, Simply a black bckground, my illustrated banner and an very light blue, alost white colour for the text.
I also changed my menu, making ita single tabled row across the top of each page ontop of the banner. The page just looked neater that way and there was a 'comfortable' amount of space on each page.
I therefore have 6 pages
For these past weeks I've been trying to start something but my background that I made, which can be seen in the draft imagaes are too diffucult to reconstruct in dreamweaver and when uploaded as a jpeg looks stretched and tacky and dosent go with my banner at all.
My banner is simple a chunck taken out of my ilustration with 'Stonefest' written across it. Now I see that the background and banner dont create a specfic look and/or feel when viewed, it just ooks really cluttered and messy. The problem might also be that they clash and there are too many colours next to each other that shouldn't be.
I showed my fixed up drafts (I fixed them after the feedback I recieved) to several friends and people I new to get some more feed back from the 'audience'. This is where i found out that the colours were not working with each other. The colours were also drowning out the text.
Therefore I changed the design, Simply a black bckground, my illustrated banner and an very light blue, alost white colour for the text.
I also changed my menu, making ita single tabled row across the top of each page ontop of the banner. The page just looked neater that way and there was a 'comfortable' amount of space on each page.
I therefore have 6 pages
- main page
- welcome
- tickets
- artists
- history
- contact us
My main page is the my full illustration which is linked to the welcome page. I have linked every page to each other through the menu and will include some hyperlinks.
Week 10 blog post
Not much development of my site over the holidays. I've pretty much been researching more about web design and some of the codes and experimenting with dreamweaver. Basically trying to get the codes working for me which at the moment they are not.
I did though find a very useful website which breaks down Html-ing and CSS's.
http://jmarshall.com/easy/html
The site explains what each code does which is great..for me!
I also found another site for getting great images
http://www.gettyimages.com
It does have some really good pictures but I dont think at ths point I need anymore images.
I did though find a very useful website which breaks down Html-ing and CSS's.
http://jmarshall.com/easy/html
The site explains what each code does which is great..for me!
I also found another site for getting great images
http://www.gettyimages.com
It does have some really good pictures but I dont think at ths point I need anymore images.
Week 7 blog post
I finished my design drafts but was unable to upload them to the moodle gallery page for Web Design Production. I did however show them to my tutorial teacher in my tute for feed back which she gave me.
She told me that my illustration that I had hand drawn and scanned in looked very 'trippy'. I was shocked at not having realised that earlier. I thought it was quite funny as it had already created the 'look and feel' of my site being information on a celebration called 'Stonefest'.
She also commented on the oeverall design of the pages, they looked very good but I had to watch the use of some of the colours. Some of the font coolurs were clashing with the background images which would make it harder for the audience to view the content.
Having taken a step back from the computer screen as well I realised that most of my pages were very cluttered with images, colours and composition, so I had to re think that.
My draft images are uploaded to my rationale (stonefest task part 1 &2) I opacitised the background to about 40% so page would seem less cluttered. It did the trick.
I also received feedback fo my menu choice, which was dangling images from the banner. The tutor said that it may be a bit difficult to do that with text when it comes down to the real website designing but was possible. I changed it anyways to just a list style type menu underneath the banner. I was a bit happy with it, i thought there was now just too much space being wasted but I wansn't too bothered with it. The menu however at the moment were in dot points so the tutor helped me convert it to an unordered list without points and reminded me that I needed some CSS styles in my work.
So I am slowly getting through my work. The feedback I received was really helpful for now, when I start designing my real Stonefest site.
She told me that my illustration that I had hand drawn and scanned in looked very 'trippy'. I was shocked at not having realised that earlier. I thought it was quite funny as it had already created the 'look and feel' of my site being information on a celebration called 'Stonefest'.
She also commented on the oeverall design of the pages, they looked very good but I had to watch the use of some of the colours. Some of the font coolurs were clashing with the background images which would make it harder for the audience to view the content.
Having taken a step back from the computer screen as well I realised that most of my pages were very cluttered with images, colours and composition, so I had to re think that.
My draft images are uploaded to my rationale (stonefest task part 1 &2) I opacitised the background to about 40% so page would seem less cluttered. It did the trick.
I also received feedback fo my menu choice, which was dangling images from the banner. The tutor said that it may be a bit difficult to do that with text when it comes down to the real website designing but was possible. I changed it anyways to just a list style type menu underneath the banner. I was a bit happy with it, i thought there was now just too much space being wasted but I wansn't too bothered with it. The menu however at the moment were in dot points so the tutor helped me convert it to an unordered list without points and reminded me that I needed some CSS styles in my work.
So I am slowly getting through my work. The feedback I received was really helpful for now, when I start designing my real Stonefest site.
Week 6 blog post
Now I have to explore web hosts to upload my wedsite to so that it can be viewed on the internet as well as finding a peice of multimedia to put on my website such as a music or a video.
I remember creating a website for sponsoring a Bengal tiger in year 8 Computing Design and I had to put some African Safari music fro my site while a flsh video played. I dont remember the site where I found the music, I dont know if it still exists, but it contained some really good quality 30 second sounds which could be easily looped to create music, or what the audience would percieve as music. The sounds were also royalty free and free to download. So I have an idea of what to look for. Hopefully I can find some good alternative rock music to play on my site. I dont know how lucky I will be.
The chapter I looked at this week was based on uploading pages to a wed server which is what I will have to do with my finished Stonefest website.
A friend reffered me to a wdhost site http://webhost000.com I seems qute good, all I have to do Is mention their name somewhere in the site address.
I will keep researchig but I may possibly just stick with that one as I already know about its existence.
I remember creating a website for sponsoring a Bengal tiger in year 8 Computing Design and I had to put some African Safari music fro my site while a flsh video played. I dont remember the site where I found the music, I dont know if it still exists, but it contained some really good quality 30 second sounds which could be easily looped to create music, or what the audience would percieve as music. The sounds were also royalty free and free to download. So I have an idea of what to look for. Hopefully I can find some good alternative rock music to play on my site. I dont know how lucky I will be.
The chapter I looked at this week was based on uploading pages to a wed server which is what I will have to do with my finished Stonefest website.
A friend reffered me to a wdhost site http://webhost000.com I seems qute good, all I have to do Is mention their name somewhere in the site address.
I will keep researchig but I may possibly just stick with that one as I already know about its existence.
Week 5 blog posts
No new development with my drafts, Haven't really had time to work on it.
In our text book we look at tables and table strutures. I dont know if I have to include a table in my website.
I find the book quite helpfull, it explains what it is we are coding such a s a table or image and ho we can code it. The table chapter gave several examples of tables and how to size them, well adjust them, the span of each column and row .
The book also discussed menus, my menu so far is similar to the original stonefest website, they are like images hanging off my banner. I feel that by making my menu in this style it is more interactive.
In our text book we look at tables and table strutures. I dont know if I have to include a table in my website.
I find the book quite helpfull, it explains what it is we are coding such a s a table or image and ho we can code it. The table chapter gave several examples of tables and how to size them, well adjust them, the span of each column and row .
The book also discussed menus, my menu so far is similar to the original stonefest website, they are like images hanging off my banner. I feel that by making my menu in this style it is more interactive.
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