EVALUATION 

I wanted the most from this project is to project the type of design ideas that best reflect me as graphic designer, web designer but mostly me as a person; I wanted to use this opportunity to project my best aspects of my skill. I wanted my portfolio to be something unique and not dull and uniform like most of the other online portfolio’s out there. I used a range of  research methods on this project , as it the one I wanted to take up for the next two years , I wanted to get as much information as possible , firstly I decided to use a mood board , this enabled me to get my ideas from my head into something more substantial. Second I did primary visual research again , the design idea I wanted to portray in my online portfolio is similar to a well-known gastro-pub near the Newton building , so I went there and took a few photos as a key reference in my designs. I also looked a few YouTube video’s for inspiration, the theme I was looking for is the “hand-drawn” 70’s-80’s retro vibe, so I looked at the music band “Two Door Cinema Club” and their video “I Can Talk” which has a very retro vibe and I tried to use that vibe into my designs.

Trying something new...or at least trying

This where I felt I fall short  , even though I wanted to make something new and exciting for the viewer and also me to look , i wasn’t able to manage it in my own opinion and I believe it was down to two things ; one my lack of experience with Dreamweaver and Flash – Some of design ideas , I wanted to do in the first place , I just didn’t have the necessary experience to implement it into my design , others have more experience in Dreamweaver and some Flash and were able to make some impressive designs , and it was the first time were I felt a little out of my depth. Second was time – it dawned on my just 

how much detail is needed my creating a good website let alone an excellent one , each element requires something , such as the placement of the navigation bar in accordance with human eye , if I had more time , I would have liked to experiment with different ideas and design layouts , but due to the short time I had to work with plus my lack of experience in Dreamweaver , the design , although it looks good is quite simple in its design layout.

The most I have learnt from this particular project is the amount of detail required in order to make a successful website, every from the where the navigation bar will be placed , what type of typeface will the main content comprise of , will the website require some sort of Flash plug-in , or HMTL5 , so the main thing i have learned from this , is detail is everything in Web. Another thing which has hit , is that I feel that my future does lay in Web but more towards the designing aspect rather than the actual building.

Been awhile since i updated this thing , so my apologies, it’s just that I have trying to solve this problem that this HTML Coding on my website , I am pretty much done with that thing , it has the same design as before and I am happy with it  , the only thing left to do is do that image gallery which am going to ask Giselle to help me with , but the MAIN problem , the problem which is giving me the most stress is simply  changing the background image on two of my pages, every  time I try to change it , something goes wrong such as all my others pages change to that background image. Giselle managed to do it for my about page and I have followed her techniques no luck, is the only thing which stopping me move forward with the project. other than that I have enjoyed the project , i look forward to taking it next year , if i can get a hang on the basics of DIV TAGS , HMTL , CSS , ID’S And CLASSES then I could excel at it 

Today was a very successful day in terms of my understanding of DIV tags , HTML and CSS. After last week’s Sem , I must admit I was struggling with the coding , as  thought i would be , but after talking with Giselle , explained to me that once you get your head about the different type of DIV tags (a total of 5) and the CSS it is really quite simple. Another reason why today was successful for me is because have finally come up with a design with incorporates both the “hand made “feel” with that 70’s retro vibe.

My design

The Home Page

About Page

Above are two examples of the background images I created for my online portfolio, as you can I have left out the text because i will be adding that at a later date  , also with link buttons also.