For anybody who uses the Mozilla FireFox web browser here's an extension which I've found quite useful. It enables you to use a tab within FireFox to view a website as if you were using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
I’ve had a really productive week this week as most of the On The Job website has been created.
As with my recent main blog entries, this entry will focus on one of the assignments. This time it will be CiSSy.
CiSSy
I’m pretty much ignoring this assignment for the next week or so due to the approaching deadline for On The Job, and also the mini deadline for getting my digital portfolio online. I will resume some work on it over Christmas in any spare time I have when I’m not continuing progress on my digital portfolio, doing my six month learning plan, or… having a break!
So there’s not that much to say this week regarding that assignment.
Six Month Learning Target
My Adobe InDesign book finally came yesterday so this week I can start to get on with learning the initial basic skills for InDesign. I had a quick read of the book last night and it looks to be very good and just right for what I need. It also comes with a CD which has all the files and fonts needed to take part in the lessons within the book. I think it will be quite interesting to learn how to use this program and I’m quite looking forward to being able to create professional documents with it.
In Other News
I have volunteered to present my work at the next ILG (Industrial Liaisons Group) meeting. Last time there was a meeting I didn’t really want to take part in it, and was glad I wasn’t chosen, but this time round I can see the opportunity to show off my work, and hopefully for people to like what they see. Plus there is the fact I’m a lot more confident in the quality of my work this year than I was last year. I think I have progressed quite a long way since then and I’m eager to get a professional opinion on it.
That’s it for this week; I may make another post during the week about something or other, who knows!
Thanks for reading
Note: This blog was written on Tuesday afternoon but due to two days of internet down time at home i was unable to post it until now.
As I said I would do in my last post, here is the updated digital mock up of the iMe site. I'm rather pleased with how it looks and hope I'll be able to make it without too much trouble with CSS. I feel it is easily the best looking website I have ever designed. There's just one thing I'm lacking, a name of some sort! I'm sure I'll come up with something.
How do you think it compares to the last mock up posted? Any feedback is welcome via comments.
So continuing on from last weeks blog entry here is a progress update on one of my current assignments. This week it will be an update on the iMe assignment, so here it is!
iMe
I am pleased at the rate I am progressing with my digital portfolio having gone from being quite behind a few weeks ago to having done design sketches, logo sketches, and layout sketches. I have today chosen the design I will actually be implementing for my portfolio and done the majority of a digital mock up of how the finished site will look. Here is the digital mock-up in its current unfinished state.
I still need to replace the box at the top with one that has rounded corners, and also I need to show how I will be implementing both the main navigation and the secondary navigation.
I am very pleased with how the design looks so far and will be completing the digital mock up during the week. I will post it here on the blog when it is complete later this week, so stay tuned, as they say.
I feel this will be my best looking website to date when it is completed; I just have the task of using CSS to get it implemented. I have been assured by John that it is possible to be done using CSS, so that’s good.
With regards to the sketchbook part of the assignment, I have done as I said I would last week and put all the pages into a folder for better organisation/presentation. Also I have been continuing putting more effort into exploring design ideas, and just generally sketching a lot more ideas in there. Not just lots of sketching though, I have been trying to annotate everything that I draw to say firstly what the idea is and what I am trying to achieve with it.
The Six Month Learning Target
Not as much progress on this one as I have with iMe. I have ordered the Adobe book I mentioned in my last entry and am currently awaiting its arrival. Until then I have made an outline of tasks that I am going to be undertaking. Plus I have added a couple extra projects that will use the skills I am learning over the next six months. These are developing a corporate identity for my dads business Bliss Wedding Cars, and then also perhaps doing the same for a friend of his Limelight Limousines. It will be good to put the skills I am learning into use.
For this outline plan I am going to spend some time tomorrow working out a time scale for each of the tasks so I can then work out what I will be doing each week.
That’s it for this entry, thanks for reading. Dave
