DP3 Update - The Dark Star Horses - Website

Done , Done Done, , all that stands in my way is that mobile site , got a meeting with Giselle on the matter , hopefully be done by Friday afternoon , Been getting really good feedback so far , With Shaun saying that he might put the site up live and Giselle saying i should start applying at companies such as NME  for work experience but personally I feel that it is too soon and that I would like to expand my knowledge first and put together a decent website , (which I will re-do over Easter). More to come.

DP3 Update - The Dark Star Horses - Website 90% done.

Sorry for the lack of posts , been bust trying to get this website sorted , but glad to say that the desktop website is done , pretty much , just waiting on content and pictures from Shaun but the main body of the website is done, the only thing which is giving me issues is mobilisation , I find it very annoying that we haven't been taught properly  on the subject when it is a big part of the brief  and we haven't had not ONE  hands on lesson on this , rather WordPress , now am not against learning WordPress but the fact the we had not one lesson on HOW to do mobilisation again really annoys me , I had to book a session with Giselle on Wednesday just to show how to do it, and that all we want really , someone to SHOW us and not just TELL us , am now worried that I might not meet the deadline in time in terms of the mobile site. I might have to ask for an extension , worked really hard on this site and am not about to allow this to set me back.

DP3 Update - Mock Welcome Page

DP3 Update - Final Logo?

DP3 Update- One page Scrolling coding , Completed + Concept Art

So after having to re-do the entire website , the basic HTML coding for the one page scrolling is done , although , the navigation bar disappears in IE , so I will have to speak to Giselle on that but all the basic coding is done (for the second time) , right now i am working on the Graphic and Design elements of the site , I had done a logo before Shaun did like it but he wanted the "DSH" part of logo cut out and just keep the text Dark Star Horses and also he felt that the "S" wasn't easily readable 

Shaun Wanted the "DSH" Part Of My Logo Cut Out 

I had also done some other logos, but again they were based on the DSH lettering and I also made the silly mistake of not reading the name of the website probably and thinking they were called "The Dark Horses" 

Original Logo 

Below is one of the backgrounds I am working on , since am now doing a one page scrolling I may have to change my approach and design one massive coherent background that  will be split up for the different sections of the site     

Background Work

Idea Scrapped

So the The website that i have been working solidly for a week has been scrapped after a conversions with Shaun and myself , i am now going to do a one page scrolling website , keeping it simple and clean , to be honest i think the site i was working on was becoming too blockly and information based. after doing some research i have decided to base my design on http://www.jeremymansfield.com/. which fits in the the dark horses theme and feel , i will design the backgrounds over the weekend and code the website throughout next week.       

DP3 Update - The Dark Star Horses

Sorry for the lack of updates, been working off the radar , and i haven't had time to to post anything , but worry process has been made with DP3 , and i have finally have someone to work for , I have been tasked with re-designing Shaun's Band website , The Dark Star Horses , the website itself has barely anything to work with , so i will have to sit Shaun down  and discuss and describe what his band is about , but other that all the basic coding and layout and pages have been done , still loads to in terms of the design and feel of the website , but here is a very early taster.

Windows 8 Logo - Not A Fan.

DP3 : Mobilized Website - What exactly is it.

Mobilised Websites  

Today we started looking at mobilised websites  for our client project (although I haven’t got a client to work for yet but that is another story) I think it is stupid not to think that mobile design is going tobe the future and is it too farf etched to think that traditional web design for the desktop is dead? (possible research proposal topic). The two main phones I will looking at for this project will be the iPhone4 (if possible the iPhone 4s if I can get my hands on it) and the latest Android phone out there although I not follow Google products as much as I do with Apple , but nevertheless I will give it the same care and attention as I will with the iPhone so let’s look at the stats:

iPhone : Retina Display , 3.5 inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display , 960x640 pixel resloution at 326ppi; 

quite a lot to work with , but the plan is to make the site as simple as possible , simplicity is the key.

Unique Logos

Very Clever Logos , I will take inspiration from these when designing my DP3 Website

DP3 Research

With Context 2 , done and dusted (i will post the finished work shortly , still debating if am happy enough with it , to warrant putting it online) it is time to move on onto DP3 , although i haven't got a client yet , i would like to make a music website for a site for a band , got a lot of ideas in my mind and i will post them in due time.

Honest Logos

Context 2 , Portfolio Update -Final Background Maybe?

Portfolio Context 2- Background Tests

More or less done with Context 2 , am just testing out different backgrounds as i am  not completely happy with the design aspect , and i will redesign the whole thing once i have submitted it , but by the end of the term should have expanded my knowledge further and will be able to design a even better portfillio  website and i am happy with the coding side of things , i have felt that i have more then double my knowledge with HTML and CSS , and i even starting to get to grips with JQuery and Javascript , with is a far cry from me last year , when i had no knowledge at all.