my blog for Web Layout and Design class (formerly for Digital New Media class).

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Final.

Here is my site.
My site utilizes:

1. Rollovers
2. Swap Image
3. Nested tables
4. CSS

I chose a bold, colorful, yet semi-classy design scheme for my site because it reflects the work of the designer. I'm not happy with the landing page, but didn't have as much time to go back and update it after working on all the other pages. I really like how the background turned out. I wanted to have a stitching/fabric theme. The background is so detailed that the stitching really stands out, and then I also drew some "stitches/seams" into my photoshop files.

As far as technology goes, I think the swap image works for the collections, etc., but it got really old as I ended up using it for 3 photo collection pages. If I had a better grasp of some other options, I would have liked to try something else as well.

Unfortunately, I could only gather material from this past season's collection and show, so the pluralities on the menu ("collections") don't apply just yet. I will probably be going back and adding additional media into the site as it becomes available. When this happens, I will add pop-up menu's onto the tabs such as "collection" so that you can view whichever season you choose.

I definitely learned a lot, and I feel like I have a good grasp of the basics, finally. Navigating photoshop, fireworks, and dreamweaver was SO much easier this time around.

And--dear Amy: I will be updating my missing blog posts before tomorrow.