If It Blogs, We Can Kill It!

Hi again,

So second week back in after Christmas and I’m back into the swing of things now, done a good few various designs so far this week.

Over the past week my productivity was greatly hindered by my computer deciding to break with a baffling error. I lost a lot of time trying to fix it, and even bought and fitted a new motherboard. As it was taking away all my time I’ve left it to my brother to sort now so I can get on with my work using (when I can) a different computer.

iMe

As I am presenting my portfolio to the ILG (Industrial Liaison Group) on Thursday I’ll be spending the next couple of days polishing up my online digital portfolio. There are a few things I want to have done on it by Thursday, these main things are:

• Removing my first two websites from the public section as they don’t represent my current level of skill
• Creating thumbnail images for all my work instead of the current squash images
• Cutting down the statement about me on the ‘Home Page’ and adding a very small selection of work
• Double checking for any spelling mistakes
  

As it stands I feel I have a nice looking portfolio online, and I’m glad I put the effort in before Christmas to get as much done as I could. Due to me doing that it makes my job easier now as I just have a few touches before it is presentable.

To Do:

Over this week after I have done the changes to my iMe website, I am hoping to have (near) final designs chosen for both KISS and CiSSy. I think I am nearer to this with KISS than I am CiSSy so will need to spend my time accordingly.

Thanks for reading,
Until next time,

Get To The Blogger! Do It NOW!

Hi folks,

In keeping with my recent main blog entries, here I will talk about the new assignment ‘KISS’. From the looks of if there will be many a crazy crazy crazy crazy night (ho ho ho) doing this. The goal is to make an interactive Valentine’s Day ecard (I Was Made For Lovin’ You Baby, ok enough of the KISS references) using either Macromedia Dreamweaver or Macromedia Flash. Personally the obvious choice for me is to use Flash as it seems a lot more suitable for making interactive ecards than using Dreamweaver.

Before I can actually get on with the designing and authoring of the ecard though, there is a big chunk of research and written work that I want to get done before even touching anything else. And before I start doing that I’ve decided to read Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. If you haven’t read it yet I greatly recommend it, especially if you do not understand visual cues. As I’ve said before after reading the chapter on usability testing a while ago I’m finding it an enjoyable and interesting read, and I know when I complete the reading (tonight, just 30 pages left!) it will set me up nicely for both the written work and the designing of the interactive ecard.

I think every single Valentine’s Day ecard I have seen out there on the web has been very tacky or just plain poor, so I am going to strive to create something that is an improvement on these. I will start by evaluating a selection of them as part of my written work. This way I can pinpoint what exactly is bad about them and avoid/rework these features for mine.

I’ll no doubt make another post of some sort during the week
Thanks for reading!

P.S. I'll avoid black and white face paint.

Nightfall In Middle-Blog

Hello,

So it’s January, first day back in college and I’m a little tired. I haven’t got up this early in a while.

It felt good at the end of last term before Christmas to get both the assignments completed, especially the On The Job assignment as it turned out a bit bigger than I thought it would be. Regarding my online digital portfolio for the iMe assignment I am pleased at the progress I made before Christmas as the website is virtually complete. I just need to do create one more page and then do a few finishing touches.

Looking ahead to this term I am going to continue where I left off before Christmas, and that is putting the hours in and working hard. I heard today we will be getting the next assignment, which happens to be another four week assignment. So that will be interesting to see what it is and what it involves.

Regarding John’s work, CiSSy needs to get rolling properly this term as at the end of last term I concentrated entirely on the iMe assignment.

Thanks for reading, and expect another entry after Tuesday.