Lesson 8

In todays lesson we was told to create a proposal for what we want our website to look like and how we can make it by having a talk with Colin about what we can do. I also made sure that all my blogger was up to date and the research that I had started off doing finish off some of that.
I had to think up what I wanted my website to look like and and what I wanted my website to be about, what contents it would hold and how we could create the look I want for my site.

Lesson 7

In todays lesson we created what we had been doing in the past two lessons but this time we learnt how to create links on our show, so it would navigate to another part of the page.

Z:\Colin Flint - web design\page 3.html

The link above is what I created in todays lesson with all the different drop down links and the links that can also take you to different parts of my website. This was done by using Dreamweaver.

Lesson 6

Todays lesson we did the same as last weeks lesson getting to grips on creating a website that has all the different panels like headers, navigation, left, right and footer. We added in colour this time so it broke up the sections and you could see clearly what went where and how it would look on a real website. We was given a sheet and had to do it on our own to see if we could remember how to create the site using div tags and the CSS rule, we was given 3 layouts to create all with different sizes to see what it was like using different sizes.

Lesson 5

In todays lesson we went onto Dreamweaver and learnt how to do different things to make our website look professional.
On Dreamweaver we created a new website and added 'backgrounds' into our saved area. We learnt how to create web page layouts using div tags and CSS rules. We created a Header area, Navigation Area, Left panel, Right Panel and Footer area. We was given a sheet and it showed us all the pixel hight and widths that it needed to be. After we had finished we could click on the internet button to see what it would look like if we was actually creating our site. We did this for the lesson so we could get used to creating something similar to this

Lesson 4

In this lesson we was allowed to get on with our research into the first part of our task, I looked at different website contents and different style and colour of what they are now using. On a clothing website like New Look they have changed the theme to match the years season, its more brown colours. There site is very organised with boxes showing different items to click on and has drop down links to other areas of the site like mens, children. As well as websites that clearly worked I also researched into websites that hadn't worked and saw why they hadn't and print screened and glued it into my sketchpad.

Lesson 3

We got given a lesson to complete our powerpoint and so in this lesson we each presented our information on the different sites we had found. Each person had found different sites for the pro's and con's on sites. After each powerpoint we had a discussion about the websites we had found and what not to do in our own site and how we could create it for our site if we wanted to do something like that on our own page.
For the powerpoint that my group did we found a website that randomizes faces, you cant upload your own face, its from the faces of the people that had designed the website.
http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html
Another website that we found was really badly organised and confused the viewer as to were to go on the site, which link we should click though we got the gist of what the website was selling.
http://www.lingscars.com/

These are two of the websites that we looked at for our powerpoint and they are totally different from each other with the style and content of the page, the second link was badly organised and not something that is right for a website that we should be aiming to create.

Lesson 2

Our second lesson we was put into pairs or three's to creat a powerpoint on websites that dont work and websites that do work. We had to research all kinds of websites, look at the layout of there site, some websites where neatly designed with put in different boxes and others were like a jumbled mess with no proper content and sites that confused you as you entered the site. We had to pick reasons as to why we thought each section on the site worked and why it didn't work.

Lesson 1

Our first lesson we was given our assignment brief, our brief is about creating our own websiting and researching into what works and what doesn't work for a website.
We discussed the uses of having a website and what is good and bad about websites, we created a mind map of website content and what areas we can have on our own website, for example the content, gallery, navigation buttons and different fonts, logo, layout and colour scheme. We discussed how to create each different things and why websites update for different reasons like clothes update new items and new deals.