Adobe Edge

Love the program , will be using much more of its capabilities over xmas.

A F**KING JOKE

This is nothing DP3 related , but Multimedia as a whole related , and the fact that is it in more or less terms getting scrapped in 2 years times is an absolute joke , i wasn't aware that i was paying £10,000 pounds to get onto an experimental course , because that what it is , they realised that they don't know what they are doing with the course , so scrap it , which gets even more annoyed is that fact that i was convinced to do multimedia over Graphic design because it was the future ....Yeah. I feel sorry for the First Years.

Not Happy - Should have done Graphics.

CHANGES

So i have decided to scrap the sideways scrolling website and just have the one page scrolling down with 6 div sections or "pages" , i have also scrapped the the header and footer black bars which in hindsight looks like a good idea because it has given the whole project a much more colourful feel , all that i have to do is sort out a few errors with the background and have 2 more javascript elements , the first will be a floating nav bar and the second will be social icons at the bottom of the page

HOLDING ME BACK

Not being able how to figure out , how to make my website scroll towards the right, is really holding me back from implementing my final javascript element  (i already have an animated splash page as my first element) , Giselle has got back to me , and am going in tomorrow afternoon to see her, really annoying as it   wasn't for this scrolling element , everything would have be done and i would just adjusting visual elements , but now am getting worried that i would be able to make the deadline , watch this space.

ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES

Issues , Firstly am having trouble getting my website to scroll towards the right , i have the javascript but i have a horrible feeling that i have coded it all wrong , hope that am wrong but i have emailed giselle (no reply) for help. and i have a few nagging issues such as backgrounds and random question marks popping up.  i think i have made a mistake trying to a scrolling website too soon , without fully understanding javascript , life would have been much more simpler if i did a 5 page website , i could have implemented much more animation and effects (using Edge).  STRESS STRESS STRESS . and that the deadline is on friday. Need a miracle.

Final Layout

New Design DP3

I Decided to change my design again , after reviewing my designs , i  feel that the designs are too dark and moody , i will post the new designs later tonight.

http://lucuma.com.ar/



Beautifully made website , my inspiration. 

DP3

Layout 2 , the one i might go for

DP3

Rough Design Layout 1

DP3

sorry fort the lack of activity i  have been really busy , with wireframes and gathering the resources needed in order to kick start  my project , which will be tomorrow in fact , i have already layout my wireframes , which i will present to Giselle in tomorrows session , and i have been introduced to the code that i need in order to make my scrolling down website  and my parents had kindly agreed to send up some old photographs of me as a child and that will be with me shortly, so to sum up i am pretty much on track with everything that i need to do. 

Below is my take on a pastiche , a homage to a older design style. 

DP3

Am off and away in terms of DP3 , i have a theme , context and meaning. but first the brief:

Design, build and deploy a minimum five page website that is validated to WC3 standards and includes at least three interactive Javascript routines that enhance the interactive experience.
This phase will test your creativity, basic design understanding and coding competency. They should meet the following criteria:

1.Create at least three elements that use Javascript routines. These should enhance the interactivity of the website. Incorporate these elements within a website that contains a minimum of five XHTML pages.

2. Flash and video can also be incorporated into the design (not essential) but ALL 'swf' files MUST also have the relevant 'FLA' file in a form that can be opened by the version of FLASH available on the university computers in WAV207/105 (i.e.CS5).

3. The total website, including flash elements, should not exceed 5MB (10MB if video included) total file size.

4. Special consideration should be given to image quality. The Java-script and Flash elements should show technical proficiency and where possible, innovative ideas and narrative principles.

5. All elements (HTML and FLASH) should complement and link to each other and be coherent with respect to the overall website design.

So with all that jargon out of the way , let me get started . What am going for , is a website that shows the evolution of yours truly , a sort of online biography , there will be five pages , but they won't be your typical home gallery about etc , they will flow in a timeline , from the day of my birth , throughout school , college , to now and all the juicy bits in-between , i was always going to go down this path but if it haven't seen this image in a magazine then i would have gone down a generic route.

I will go into much much much more detail later on , but for know here are the basics : i will be using three colours: red , black and white  and it  will be a three coloum page layout. Hopefully my Mother won't might sending me old photos of my childhood. 

Evolution of a Designer - Part 1.

What was i thinking , in every term of the word "Fresher" , if you have no idea what am talking about, it is my designs of the past , especially my blog design ,  after having sessions with Shaun Blecher on good design  , it is clear to see that my designs weren't very good , it's just too cluttered with different elements on the page , and doesn't really have good flow. 

some of the randoms elements which on reflection doesn't not make sense

Thank lord am getting Photoshop and Dreamweaver on monday , so the much needed redesign and the transfer over to Wordpress can begin.  

Getting the Hang of this

Another excellent session with Giselle , this time on positioning of elements on the HTML page , just the thing i needed to know , with my design for my website being heavily based on specific DIVS being in a certain place. more on my design to follow.

Brillaint