Evaluation

I found this assignment complicated and I don’t think that I have achieved my highest standards on it. Website design for me is not my strongest area and could be vastly improved on.

I had started off by doing research on good and bad websites and myspaces. I had listed a lot of strong advantages to the good website and myspace and clearly shown what was bad in the bad website and myspace. After I had done that I then created my own blogger and pasted the work into it.

In the blogger I had written what I had achieved for this assignment each week. I also wrote information on what I think about the Google Company and the virgin website. I had expressed my opinions on them well with a bit of humour.

The next part of research that I went onto doing was what I had done in my website designs and why I thought they were effective. I thought that I could have added a lot more information and print screens. The print screens that I had applied show the processes I went through on the WebPages.

I then started on creating the website. To start this off I opened my website designs on Adobe Photoshop and separated the individual menu buttons importing them onto Macromedia Flash as buttons. I then saved the animation and imported it onto Macromedia Dreamweaver. After that I opened the pages (with the menu icon removed on their designs) onto Macromedia Dreamweaver and matched each page to the relevant menu icons. Unfortunately the size of the page compared to the menu bar did not match and I struggled to solve that problem.

I reckon I could of achieved a lot more in this assignment if I focused well and enjoyed the doing assignment. There were a few good concepts in my blogger but I felt I could have written more in it. I had also forgot to add a myspace which I should have concentrated on.

i had made a search box in my website. it does not take you anywhere but i thought maybe it may boost my marks up. After that i focused more on the reasearc h i have to do for this assignment which needs improving.

i had sorted out the website menu icons and moved my pages onto Dreamweaver with hyperlink linking to each page. However the proportion are not to descent. i now have to catch up with with all the written work.

continuing work

I am continuing with some reasearch. in this reasearch i am comparing my website to others using printsceens still got alot of work to do

hey ho

yer well anyway there was some work i had to catch up on which had not been completed yet

Designing of website

Layout and colouring of composition

This layout shown below is one that I would not use to create a website. This is because I don’t like how the random white space has to be there for no apparent reason and the logo would in my theory look better on the right hand side.


My layout for my website differs from the one above as it is set up portrait length. I choose this because I thought it would look more appealing to the readers. I have ordered it so that the menu icons are above the title and logo which makes the website look like documents pages. My webpage’s have the use of cartoon pictures so that the webpage will gain more attention and appeal to a younger generation.

I have given the website very bright, fun colouring as I think that would link to the theme well in the background I have given a different coloured gradient on each web page I created.

Typography

The text used in my made up website is also coloured so that the reader can pay more attention to it. ihave made sure that the coluring of the writing is visible through the background and the two colur would not blend and make the text very difficult to read. The titles have been given a 3d effect so they can stand out on the page. I did this by painting the words in the titles then selected a style for them. One of those I had painted a template for of money which links to the pages themes. I have also added different fonts to some of the writing to make it look more interesting and so readers would notice those words straight away.

Imagery

In this website design I have hand drawn and scanned in cartoon images which would gain more interest to a younger generation. I coloured them in on Adobe Photoshop giving different shades of colour to show more characteristics in the drawing. I had help from using the polygonal lasso tool to select the different part to colour in and Gaussian blur tool blend the colours. i had also used the blur tool so the lines were not to definate. The titles on the webpage’s were also hand drawn and scanned in onto Adobe Photoshop for colouring.

Starting with menu icons

I have started to edit the photoshop images of my web design. Firstly with the help of Martial we made the menu icons in flash with an indicator showing you which icon has been selected. It's not really working decently at the moment so i need to develop it more.

30th march

We were going through the basics of Dreamweaver which involved hyperlink to each webpage and the layouts