Why is it that every time I start working on something it looks so damn awesome, but then after working on it and messing with it and all that I just can’t stand to look at it.
At this point to me it looks like total poo, everyone elses site probably looks so much better. Well anyways good luck to you all on the up coming finals and congrats to those graduating.
http://aid.aiistudentwork.com/WB/isl/sanchez_c/test/testgallery.html
I’ve been trying different ways to get a gallery to work for my site, and I think I found one that is pretty good. So I tested it and posted it on the FTP to see if it would work. It works, which amazed me cause I figured some kinda problem would occur.
The Gallery is by Stu Nicholls.
I’ve managed to get two pages from my final online. Well its only the splash page and the home page, I might remove the splash page not sure whether its really needed.
Oddly enough I had plenty of odd problems with the simplest parts of the code, managed to fix them after nearly yanking out my hair. All help/tips/donations welcome.
Reading this blog I was thinking on were I stand in the group of people out there. A good or great designer, and I concluded that I am neither. Its just that I am blessed with plenty of time to sit and troll through sites. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t think up of most of the designs on my page on my own. Sites like CSS Zen Garden provide plenty of inspiration and helpful little ideas.
I see the idea of why he says its not a bad thing to copy since there are time constraints and other job related things. Its hard to come up with anything original in this day and age anyways. Its almost guaranteed that anything you say do or think of has already been done or thought of by another living person. With that said I guess we are all going to have to do what we were told was wrong in grade school, we will copy borrow and steal to make a living; that is within reason.
These are the comps that got the best remarks from everyone in class. I took notes down for what I have to correct or fix, and also some ideas on what I probably could change. I am placing them up again just incase anyone has any further input to give. Thanks.
Btw, wordpress has some odd issues with html tags so I couldn’t place them as thumbnails so theyre going to have be links.
So my design process seems to differ from what some of you have posted. Some of you sit in the the silence to think, which is rather hard for me to do, while others write out ideas on paper. I don’t really go and do that either, i sit listening to music or the random sounds from the tv and look through the web at things.
After a while I start to build the look in my head and if it starts to look good I scratch it onto a piece of paper, which ended up being a syllabus. After I get a few down, I went and opened illustrator and started to basically do them all on there, one page comps. then I looked and modified the ones I liked and deleted the others. Thats basically I how I do things, its a rather slow process and it ends up with me arguing with myself a lot and with me walking out of the apartment to get a breath of air.
I managed to get my comps out and everything. I know I probably need to add or remove things to them but the people I asked for insight weren’t really helpful. So I am looking forward to getting help.
So I’ve been working on my comps like everyone else, and I’ve realized that even though my topic is a very colorful and vibrant one my comps are lacking.
Even though I know that simplicity can speak volumes, at times I feel that there could be more; especially with this topic.
So if anyone has any tips for me or is willing to aid me with some of the visual part I’ll be very thankful.
So when we sat in the class a while back everyone had a pretty concrete decision on what they wanted to do for a final.
I had my idea but it wasnt something I was all to thrilled about it was just something that came to mind, something to get a grade for.
I went to get information about the place and found out it was no longer in business, the animals weren’t the only exotic things they were selling.
So I jumped to the next thing that was easy to come up to mind and that was a site for my mom’s business, but again it wasn’t something I was to thrilled to do
Mr. Batchelder told me it really should be something I have an interest in. So I have been thinking it over and I am going to go with an interest I have.
I am going to go with a site about graffiti and how its not just random crap on the walls, how its an art form that can be appreciated just like any other art.
So I have started my concepts on that and am hoping I can accomplish to make the site I imagine in my head.
See everyone on Thursday.
Looking over the homework assignment the creating of the pages has me confused. We aren’t doing a PLE site, at least I didn’t get the memo, so I decided to do relative and fixed pages. As I started doing the basic coding parts I realized I wasn’t all to sure on what I was suppose to do, so I went on a looked at Batchelder’s examples and that just confused me a bit more. I managed to make the pages to the best of what I could pull off, but still I didn’t understand why on Batchelder’s pages there were “.box”. Now I do recall sitting in the classroom last week, but I don’t recall anything about that. Man where the hell is my mind gone.
As for the sites I looked at…
the Art Prostitute page is one, not that I know there will be a gallery in the site but I like the look of the gallery and would like to do something like that with CSS if at all possible. I believe that one is either done in Javascript or Flash.
2. Red Labor
The sites overall look is just appealing to me, the tape/book bindings holding the pieces together just looks so impressive. Makes me rather jealous that my attempts to do things of that nature always end up not working out or not working all together.
3 . 456 Berea St.
This site wasn’t chosen exactly for the design look of it in any way. Though I chose it because of all the useful information that can be gathered from this one page alone. The tutorials are always helpful and pretty simple to follow. He also describes things in a way that doesn’t make things overly complicated.
Haha, an amusing name for a website.
The simplicity of the page, helps in realizing that to be a great page you don’t have to have flashy design, amazing graphics or anything of that sort. As long as your able to get your work out there and do it in a nice enough way it can look amazing.
This site as a whole is chosen because all of the pages are always inspiring. Always showing some crazy skills.
Art Prostitute Gallery
The gallery itself has nothing to do with design. It is traditional art, by that I mean paint and canvas, but the site itself I like. I like the simplicity of it.
Its using flash, but I recall seeing a site before doing the same thing but with CSS and I wonder if that would be possible to do.
I’ll give it a shot on my own, but if any of you happen to know a trick or two I wouldn’t mind hearing them.
This gallery btw is in Dallas, if you have nothing to do check them out. I plan to sometime.
