Project 2 Home Cooked

I'm done. At least with the design. I still need to look through and make sure everything is formatted right, but the elements are in there and the links all work.

Project 2 Home Cooked

Almost done with all my banners. I've made 4 so far. I think I'll do 1 or 2 more. Navigation works. Everything is done but the banners. Not too worried about that. 

Project 2 Home Cooked

My girlfriend went through my site and gave me some advice. Now I'm making one banner for each section. For instance, the Home page will have a different banner than the Images page and so on. It's kind of late in the process and I have other projects to work on so I may have only 3 different ones, but I'll try to mix them up. I also added credits to my movies pages.

Project 2 Home Cooked

It's down the stretch time. I think I'm done. I finished redesigning the banner. I got some advice from my girlfriend who's made a lot. I think it fits well with the site. Still not sure about the typeface, but I don't really like anything else I have.

Right now, it's all about testing. I'll have my friends do some click throughs and assess the site's navigability and layout. If all's well, I will have finished my project. If only I were this confident about my Concept Map.

Project 2 Progress

I got some feedback from Josh. He says I need to alter my banner to make the Title more legible and to make the image smaller. He likes my background image and thinks I should emphasize it more. That's why he wants me to alter my banner. Also, he says I should reduce the size of the text of the navigation bar as well as the size of the bar itself. I also should get rid of the black background color of all my tables. 

I tried making these changes in class, but I irreparably damaged my page formats. The things that should be completely centered are off to the left even though everything says centered. Luckily, I was working off an older copy on the desktop in the lab. I would have worked off the version from my MP3 player, but I forget the USB cable. I guess I was lucky that I did. Now, I can try implementing the changes at home off that version and nothing is ruined. Note to self: ALWAYS keep multiple versions of projects in case of incidents like this.

Project 2 Trailers

I gave up trying to embed the trailers into my web pages. I decided I would just link to the YouTube page instead. Less complicated. The site is coming together pretty well. Design wise, I think it's done. As far as interactivity, I've made navigation pretty easy. I also tried to limit the number of pages to avoid complications. I just need to have another trial run through to make sure all the pages look and operate the way they are supposed to. But, for the most part, I think I'm done.

Project 2

I'm almost done with my protosite. I'm having trouble on two fronts though. First, I tried pasting in an image from photoshop, but all that showed up was a weird placeholder block. Also, I can't figure out how to embed trailers. I'm sure I have to import a Flash player, but I don't know how. 

So, for right now, I'm stuck. But everything else is going fine. Singer helped me with the problems I was having with body text. I just need to get the text on the bio page to wrap correctly. The padding at the bottom works, but the padding on the right isn't showing up when I test the page.

Other than that, I think I'm set. I've done click throughs and ever link works. Images and text show up where they're supposed to aligned how they're supposed. The structure is sound. 

Project 2

I just realized I haven't put nav links in any pages other than my home page. Users would have to hit the back button and go to the Home page if they wanted to navigate anywhere else. I'm going to have to go back and fix this.

Project 2

I've gotten pretty far in class on my site. I still have a ways to go. I have the main pages like Home, Biography, and Filmography set up and navigable. I just need to set up pages for images and about me. I wanted to make the images page similar to the Biography/Filmography page. When you click on the thumbnail of the image, it takes you to another page with the full sized image for download. However, I realize now I have a lot of images, which means a lot of pages to create, somewhere around 20. I'm thinking for the sake of simplicity, I'm only going to create pages for about half of those, about 10. I also want the images to pop up as a new window or tab. I don't know how to do that. Overall, though, I have the basic structure set up and the pages are starting to look like I planned, for the most part.

Project 2 Update

I haven't really had time to work on my site. I did some things last class, but nothing in depth. I figured out how to create links, which I'm very happy about. I'll probably work on linking to other pages I created next. 

I don't like the look of the site, but the basic structure is in place. Dreamweaver is harder than I thought, but I think I'm making strides. I'm catching on pretty quickly. I just have to work on making the site look better.