My IM Evaluation

My main intentions for this project were to create a working portfolio that reflects my personality. I wanted, my portfolio to be an extension of myself.
For the portfolio, i created a mood board to develop my ideas. Unfortunately the only part to transfer itself was the colour purple. I chose between two templates for the wire frame of the website. One would've been easier for me, but i didn't choose it. Instead i wanted a vertical navigational bar. To make this work, i had to float the boxes in different places. I did it quite well by myself, and Giselle remedied it for me.
Some problems i found were: floating the footer, padding the content image and reorganising the gallery. Solving the problem with the footer was simple, as Giselle helped me. How ever i do feel that i would have worked at it until it worked. For the content, i wanted a background picture, of scribbles, with overlying writing. However, i wanted the writing to be padded more than the picture. I unfortunately found out that the padding in the content affects both simultaneously. To counteract this i centred the writing  so i wouldn't touch the edges of the picture. I know know, that creating a separate div tag, to put the writing in, would've worked just as well. And last of all i found creating the gallery hard, as i wasn't there for the ooriginal lesson. But the main problem was afetr saving and adding the gallery, i didn't know how to access it again to add and change some of the images. I did try to access it many times, but to no avail. I left the gallery with only a few images, which is unfortunate.
I have learnt much more about Dreamweaver in this term than i had before. I've learnt how to create divs, classes. I  learnt how to change each one's settings appropriately.
If i was to re-do this project, i know i would make more pages for my animations, and a completely different gallery. I like the programme Adobe Bridge, but i don't like the layouts for the galleries. I would lighten the colourscheme, as i find it a bit too dark/pressing. Also, i would change my profile picture; it's terrible.

my website

The fifth page is a link to my blog. which you can see right now.
I'm all finished now!

i've been working on my website...

not a lot, but a decent amount. Here's what I've done:

I scribbled my layout, just how i wanted it! Now it's all purple and messy (quite like me). Things seem to be going to plan. As well as the layout, i also scribbled some creatures. They're awfully nice.
I decided my fifth page will simply be a link to my blog. I've been having some problems with my images on dream weaver, but i am working through it.
After having created my gallery page, i realised i didn't actually have a collection of work to show. So i hunted through all my dp1 work, and found some old stuff of mine.
That's all for now :)

Vertical navigational bar

I just made my self a vertical navigational bar, just by pressing buttons. Wooo, go me. I hope it doesn't fall apart if i haven't done it right though.

Here it is. I should probably change the colour scheme soon.
I learnt what i did wrong with my horizontal navigational panel. It is now fixed. i also added in the navigational links. It's looking much better, and more like my wire frame.

Now i have to add in all my images/colour.

purple!

Here's some possible colour schemes that i might use for my portfolio website. I like them. They're pretty.


 These are from the Dulux website. I thankee them for sharing these wondrous purples with me.

designing my wireframe

Yesterday, i was playing around with my website. So far it looks like this:

It's not all that good, and says complete nonsense. The colour scheme is warm, but probably not what i'll stick with. The image in the header was tiled. It's a fox, by the way.

Today we were designing the wireframe for our websites. I have desined two. I'm not sure which one i'll pick yet. But they are both kept fairly simple, just to stop me going insane.


design 1

 

design 2

I'm leaning towards the second design, even though having the navigational panel down the side will be a little harder. It will be fun trying to make this. Until i get angry and walk away from the computer.

In the mood for food