Friday, 22 January 2010

Research

Zen Garden
Zen garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation and aims itself to artists and designers instead of webs designers. On the following webpages the code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file. This means that the information on the webpages stays the same but the look of the page changes. CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document.
Box Model Hack
A table structure consists of retangualr cells within a rectangle. A CSS box can be thought of as table with only one cell. Such a box can be given borders, transparent margins outside the borders keeps other boxes away, and transparent padding inside the borders keeps the content away from the edges of the box. These can be applied to each side of the box separately. Inside the padding is the content area, which you guessed it, holds the content of the box. If the box has no given dimensions, it is called fluid or liquid. This means that it horizontally fills the container box surrounding it, and expands vertically to enclose whatever content is within it. For the most part, such fluid boxes are quite reliable.

Wolff Olins
Wolff Olins is a company who design for other company's. They have created the famous logo for the London Olympics. They have also worked on website designs for Mercedes-Benz, New York City, and Very.
Good Website
In my sketchbook I have shown a small spider diagram on each of the websites to show there good quality's. I have picked www.play.com and www.deviantart.com for my two good websites.

Bad Website
In my sketchbook I have also shown a small spider diagram on each of my choices for bad websites but on the anotations they show why the sites are bad. I have picked http://www.morrisons.co.uk/ and http://www.amazon.co.uk/ for my two bad websites.

Flash Gallery





I had created a flash gallery using my photography images, unfortunately I came across an unfortunate problem, as I could not upload it to my website. I could not match the coding with the .xml files and the .swf files. You can see the flash file if you run it through flash but you cannot view it on my website. I have burnt the flash file onto disk as an additional file for my website.

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Website Update

Over the last few months I have researched and developed different ideas for creating a portfolio website. In the next few post I will show the progression on how the website has developed.