Pictures and Content - 26/11/2008

Profile Webpage

I have realised that I need to put content over a picture, and I've been advised to do it two ways:

1. Make the picture a background and write content.
2. Use Fireworks to put the text onto the image and insert it back into Dreamweaver. 

However, for these ideas, I have found constraints. 

• One of the text boxes could cover up the image.
• If I use the Fireworks method, my content won't be reconised by Google, and then I'm not advertising my website to it's full potential. 

I decided to use the picture as a background, so my writing can be recognised on Google.

Measurements

My pictures that won't be used a backgrounds will be 545 pixels wide.  

Content

Finished the content for the profile page.  Mentioned that I'm a Journalism student at my university, which should get advertising for them on Google.  I also spoke about different companies that I have experience with, so hopefully they will be recognised on Google too. 

Building of the website templates - 19/11/2008

My homepage is going to be the basic template of my website, so it's important for me to get the measurements I need.  Also, I need to make sure I use my colour scheme throughout the website.

 

Measurements

I want to put a picture of myself on my homepage, so I need to take into consideration the measurements, so I don't have any blank spaces, as the website will look untidy and will look unprofessional. 

• Picture for homepage measurements - 120 pixels height/550 pixels width

I have also taken down the measurements for the sidebar of my web pages

• Sidebar for homepage and other website pages - 475 pixels height/ 230 pixels width.

Colours

I have also decided that my background colour is going to be *FFCC99.  I have also chosen the background colour for my banner, to make sure my audience won't be confused.  My font for the banner is going to be Adobe Garamond Pro Bold Italic and my colour is going to be *FFFFFF.

Problems 

When customising my links, I have found that one of my links that I have used, will not change colour in the browser. 

I have also had problems with inserting my banner onto my web page. 

Beginning of the website - 12/11/2008

Today we discussed with Steve what we were going to do for our online assessment.  I need to produce a website, which has a personal element, but also shows my ability to redesign and enhance features for the web. 

Target Audience

I'm aiming my audience for anyone interested in becoming a journalism student, or who is interested in my website design or feature work.  This could include employers, or people I apply to for work experience.  I also want other students in my university to see my website. 

Designing

For my design, I wanted to represent my girly nature, so I want to add a picture of myself on the left hand side of each page.  Each picture will also represent the page that I'm; i.e. a picture of me writing on paper to represent my 'current work' page.   

I'm also considering using multimedia structure to show my articles, because I personally dislike scrolling, so I don't want to make my audience do the same.  I'm not sure if I want to open the features in a new window, as there are many pros and cons, i.e. taking people away from the website, allowing people to keep the features in the background.  

I'm also considering putting animated gifs into my profile page.  This is because, I don't want to have a 'picture' page, as it's a waste of a page and I think it will annoy my audience.  If I use gifs, I can choose what pictures I want and allow my audience to see pictures as well as reading my material.  However, this could also distract them from reading my profile.  

Navigation

I'm going to have three main groups: profile, current work and links.  Then, I want to give my current work page three more groups: print, canvas and assessment online feature.  I'm unsure if I want to split my links into groups, as I don't want my audience to become bored with going from page to page, without getting the information they want.