Thursday and Friday 14/15th January 2009

Ok so for the past two days it been hardcore websiting and we had to make a presentation on Friday afternoon which i was not looking forward to at all as over the past few days i have been exploring other medias mainly meaning i've come away from Dreamweaver and i have been looking at creating a website in Flash. So i have been experiementing with that, but it is really under developed and i will now have to present it to a group. Oh Noooooo!!!!!!!!

Below i have attached some screen shots of the Flash experiments that i have been working on in replacement of the Dreamweaver option.

THE GALLERY

I have created a gallery for my work to be presented in. The gallery took a while to do but end results were very satisfactory. The gallery has small thumbnails with rollovers on them adding to the effect and on the click the lager image fades in to the gallery again giving the gallery a great look and effect.

DROP DOWN MENU

This is an example of a drop down menu i managed to create which again took a fair while which i later found out was much simpler to create drop down menus in Dreamweaver. Kinda of funny but was an experience in learning how to do it.

FLASH WEBSITE

This is a small website example that i created in Flash which was the example i showed in my crit today. The website is entirely Flash based and has four different pages a few examples of these pages lie below that i screen shot for you to view.

THE EVENING REPORT:
So after the day and the crit all is far from well. But not as bad as things could get after seeing other peoples.
some peoples websites were really good and coming alonge really while others seemed slightly underdeveloped so although still worried about mine i did feel slightly more confident. The website above created in Flash was the one i presented which didnt go really very well and main issues were the backroud image was not one of my own, not sure that the style quite refected myself as a designer. Kit also gave me a tip for my website which was to introduce or show my work because it really should be the first thing you see as it will draw the viewer in and interest them more.
Plus points from the crit were that the idea and demonstration of the gallery went down really went although the gallery needs some tweeking the initial idea is there and neail really liked it and went down rather well so i was happy with that.