Minor Project 8

“The Perfect Workflow”

I found that the Wireframe exercises helped the most with the development of my web pages. By laying out the general location of my images on paper it allowed me to visually see and imagine how the website will flow. Also I enjoyed the Photoshop prototypes to play with color, alignment, and over all feel of the page.

Final Blog

Through out the year our CSS Web Site Design book was very helpful to me. I relied on this book to give me step-by-step instructions to help me design and develop a quality web site for my client. This book gave me the tools to design a site that’s both appealing and functional.
The tutorial movies on Lynda.com were useful as well. Although since the book had been right in front of me I was able to look at that for as long as I wanted, without rewinding and starting over.
Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS book helps us see the different ways you can design a web site. This book has been useful to me this semester in the layout and design of my web pages. It showed me to make as may designs as possible to see what the best layout is for my client.
Some of Andy Clark’s technical information about CSS was useful but the book was not worth the price.
I have found that I have learned to-
- draw out site designs
- choose the best layout for the client
- how to take clients problems and fix them by new designs

Minor Project 21

Major Project 1
November 15 – have homepage fully complete
- change layout for fallowing page
Major Project 2
November 15 - decide on final layout
- create homepage
MP 1
November 22
- rework final layout
- create homepage
MP 2
November 22
- create clothing page
- rework nav to fit more buttons
MP 1
November 29
- have pages designed
- decide on content of pages
MP 2
November 29
- create about us and team pages
- Find content for about us
MP 1
December 6
- bring pages into css
- work on code
MP 2
December 6
- find content for team
- download flash images
MP 1
December 13
- test site
- work out problems
MP 2
December 13
- bring in to css
- work out problems

Jetty Master List

Jetty Master List

Master List-
(heads, subheads, body copy and other text, icons, banners, navigation bars, text navigation, images, digital movies, flash animations, email mail to, external links)

-Main Page:
- Jetty logo- located down the right hand side of the page
- NavBar- located across the top- links include clothing, team, studio, company
- Body text- would include up coming events, new news, surf reports, and fundraising events--- a flash slide show of jetty surfers, logos of jetty supporters

Navigation Bar:
-Clothing:
- (Logo moves to the top left hand corner)
-Side nav- (men) long sleeves, short sleeves, outerwear, (women) long sleeves, short sleeves, outerwear (groms) long sleeves, short sleeves, outerwear (accessories) boardshorts, hats, other (hook ups) men, women, groms
-Body:
- flash image of clothing images
- Return Policy: information on how to return items
- Out of Stock items: information on how to order out of stock items
- Gift Certificates: how to order gift certificates online

-Team:
-(Nav bar is the same)
- Side Nav- (Surf) Dallas Tolson, Pete Machotka, Brendan Willem, Dave Werner (Skate) Gary Smith, Ronnie Gordan, Andrew Cannon
- Dallas Tolson- (picture info will be the same for all people) Growing up, DOB, interests, Photos

-Studio:
- (same header, and navs, as clothing and team)
- list of artest and photographers, Nick Zegel, Ann Coen, Melissa Scotton, Griffin Lotz, Eddie Compo
-Nick Zegel- background information, roots, DOB, interests, links his website

Nadinne's Presentation

While attending Nadinne’s presentation I learn many ways to help enhance the development of my designs. She taught me to be creative while developing any projects. I began noticing this creative thought when she gathered us all in the front and back of the room to display which items were most important to people and then asked us why.

This exercise also taught me to prioritize my items; in web design this is very important. By keeping our most important links in plain view of our users it makes the site easy to navigate and user friendly.

Nadinne wanted us to voice our opinions about the subject matter at hand, she taught us to be bold. After thinking about how this could be related to web design I realized that bold web sites are the most attractive ones. Nadinne taught us to be bold with our ideas and to portray then onto the web.

The main focus in Nadinne’s presentation was community serves. This is a great way to help people, in our line of work we need to figure out a way to help people easily navigate our web sites. By creating an easy navigation bar we can make peoples experience on our site enjoyable.

I am looking to design a website for Quinnipiac’s campus ministry with Father John.

Major Project 1

--“Brief”--
For our first major project I have decided to do a portfolio with all of my past works from the last 3 years. The purpose of this web site is to set up a portfolio to show possible clients how I have improved over my college career. The over all look of this website will be sleek and on the cutting edge of web design.