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Finished project 3 – Corky…maybe someday it will become a reality

Corky

Process Site

We have been working on Project three for a bit now and we have a pretty good handle on it. Last Thursday we had our client pitches and ours went pretty well. Our idea was well received and we were given a lot of good ideas to improve our site. Corky will soon be a big success! Last class we spent working on our individual process sites. I’m almost done with the initial layout and then I just need to fill in the content. I have almost mastered overlapping div tags, but I am having a little bit of an issue, which hopefully I will be able to figure out tonight.

After tomorrow most of my hectic stuff of the semester will be over with. Just a couple tests and I’ll be done for the semester. Then one more to go and I’m completely done with school…Woo!

Project 2 is now finished, online, and critiqued. I am happy with the final product, but there are some things I would change when reworking it. Learning a better way to create the slideshow would definitely improve the look. I would also make the bottom navigation work with the drop downs by having them open upwards rather than down. Also some suggestions that I recieved for my website was to add some more color to the overall design. I would try to incorporate this into my design, but I like the simple, clean, sophisticated, and professional look of the black and tan colors.

Project 2

Project 2 is going quite well. Once I had my paper done and my layer comps done in Photoshop putting my site together was quite simple. I have definatly gotten the hang of CSS. Tonight I decided to figure out how to make a drop down menu for my subnavigation. I looked for a tutorial on how to make drop down menus with rollover images and found some code which I inserted into my template. This was a bit complicated at first, but I got my navigation images inserted and after some help I got everything sorted out. Now I have to figure out what to do with the bottom navigation and change some of the pictures and my website it pretty much done.

Project 1 was a bit of a challange. I made the mistake of at first creating all the pages in Photoshop and using tables to assemble them in Dreamweaver. I also made the mistake of inserting all of my text into Photoshop and into the tables instead of inserting it into Dreamweaver seperately. I did this because I wasnted the text to wrap around the image, but I learned that that isnt very practical for web. I must be too used to doing things for print. For a redo I created one of the pages using CSS instead of tables. Since this project I have learned a bit more about using CSS and am working on my 10 page site.

Project 1