Tuesday 27 October 2009

When we were given this brief I looked at websites for inspiration and found that the ones I preferred had a more drawn and handmade kind of look. I decided that was the kind of look I would like to include in mine. I also decided to use parts of my work in the design to make it more personal. 
For a project it did last year I changed the faces on barbies using photoshop to give them odd expressions and I thought that using this could make quite an interesting design for my website. I decided that when the web page first come up the barbies will look normal, but then created a roll over so that their expressions change when the mouse is moved over them.
I quite like this idea but think the design is a bit messy, so if given the chance I would really like to improve it. I feel that a lot of time was taken up with trying to learn the programmes Fireworks and Dreamweaver, as I had never used these before and now I feel more able to use them I think that i could greatly improve the design of my website. However I think i have been reasonably successful in making my website easy to use and it is simple to navigate around the pages.
A problem I had was trying to use lightbox. After hours of trying all I managed was to get the image to open in a separate web page. Therefore I had to use a different method for viewing my work on the website.

Thursday 22 October 2009

Got all my pages linked so all I need to do now is add my work to the 'My Work' page :) Think i might attempt lightbox maybeee

Thursday 15 October 2009

rollovers

wooo got rollovers to work :) :) took about ages as it just wouldn't work for one of the pages. got there in the end!

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Saturday 10 October 2009

Friday 9 October 2009

Thursday 8 October 2009