U3025690's Blog

Melissa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:18:49 +0000

I think the only way I am going to get really good web design is practice.. so in the holidays I am going to make my own website.

Melissa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:17:22 +0000

They have fixed it now so I am able to post… the guy said he had no idea why it happened. anyways heres my stuff:

Website

Blog Theme

Melissa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:47:32 +0000

You know what annoys me….. well how every thing has to be spelt American way when coding, after doing so much coding I feel that now I have started spelling colour as color.. its horrible

Rational- Website

Melissa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:44:44 +0000

This was probably the most difficult and stressful assignment that I have gone through- nothing went as planned. I struggle with web-hosting, codes and css. I think I had difficulties on every aspect of this assignment. I am however, very much satisfied with my end result, after such a struggle. The kind of theme I wanted for my website was for it to have a grungy feel like the festival. After researching music sites I found that usually the images were random, and had nothing to do with the actual music. I think I chose to do vines because it does have atleast some similarity to music. I think displaying music in a theme or image is very difficult. I first did my design draft in illustrator so I could illustrate using the pen tool. I converted it to a gif file using photoshop. The main aim of my website was to make it long running and centred- I find this to be the most easiest to read and follow. I achieved a theme by having the same background image on each page and using a green, black and grey colour-scheme. At first I started using the program dream weaver but later downloaded coda and textmate- I found coda and dream weaver to be very similar. I wanted to have my navigation-menu run horizontally along the top of the website- because research had shown this to be the most common and effective. I wanted to keep the menu very simple and straight forward because the background image is so complex and all over the shot. I chose in my website to use a sans-serif font because it portrays a modern sense and compliments the grungy theme well. I used either white or grey for the text, because I these were pretty much the only colours that show through the black. I did attempt green however it did not stand out well and became part of the background. I think the design is effective for the target audience and think navigation is easy to follow.

Rational- Blog theme

Melissa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:26:03 +0000

In the beginning I wanted my blog theme to use a lot of white space and be very simple, however after discovering that there was already a default theme of this: I changed my mind. So then I decided that I wanted to make it a little moody. I have done this by using an image that I have painted of a city scape. I first painted the image, then made layers by scanning in ink painting that I had done to create this effect. I wanted to keep the blog theme similar to the default blog- so it would be easy to follow and I think the default layout is very effective. I changed it to how I wanted it, by making the background of the blog wider and a black colour so it ties in well with the background image. I uploaded the image onto the net so I could link it to my blog using photobucket. I also changed the colour-scheme to black and red, because this is a historically effective combination. I aligned the blog header toward the right to balance out with the rest of the blog. I made the date-colours in black so they appear as if they are connected with the background. I also moved the search/ navigation tool toward the right so it was off the background and changed the colour to work with the theme. I have uploaded examples of posts- so you can get an idea of what my blog would actually look-like. I used tumblur because wordpress would not let you create a theme, and tumblur was the easiest to use out of the blogs. I am really happy with my blog theme and think it all works together well:D

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:45:53 +0000

I kinda wish we had of done the blog theme first because I found I learned a lot from this assignment

Blog theme

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:44:11 +0000

http://melissabryantt.tumblr.com/

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:34:02 +0000

I do believe my blog theme is coming along pretty well.. i am using tumblur

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:32:22 +0000

I find that working on the internet I get so distracted.. i have to stop myself form going on different websites gah so annoying

Melissa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:26 +0000

I am having much difficulty with web hosting! when I go to the website it says error and directs me back to the website of the hosting. Why does everything has to be so difficult with this assignment..so far nothing has gone how i want it..