Check it out here!!
I know I don’t have much process for along the way because I wasn’t documenting it as I went. I was just going and going to get it done. For never ever dealing with HTML and CSS until a couple days ago, this site looks halfway alright. I am proud of it because I generated it all from code – no templates. Of course I had Mr. Lincoln helping me through the bugs of the site today.
My processes could just be easily described as mass chaos, at least for the first part. I was giving myself a crash course in this and creating it at the same time. I had no idea what I was doing, I was just trying to figure out what did what. As time went on, it was much more trial and error format. A lot of the things I was trying I didn’t even know if it would work or not, some did and some didn’t. I moved away from my original idea because that had too many pages to create. In that same idea, I wanted a site that was very neutral so that the images of the site could pop and draw attention. I created a new site map which is at the end of this blog.
One of the websites I critiqued was Blind.com and I was inspired by how they layout their navigation, I did my own take on it with a double navigation in the critique section (click here to see). I just wanted it to be easy to move through and to the point without too much overlap.
If I had a better understand for CSS and HTML I would go back and fix some of my kinks. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the “Motion” title and I would have made another review image that goes all the way to the top. I was having issues getting that to align with the top of the page. There were many other small problems along the way, but I worked through them and some I just had to leave for now.
Even though working on this project was such a struggle for me, I actually liked it in the end. It was good for me. I was amazed myself by how much I could learn in such a small amount of time, I feel I have a general grasp of coding now. Its still very confusing, but its fun to pick up something new. I definitely plan on taking advanced New Media next year because I think it’s an important skill set to know and I have so much to learn.
I wish everyone the happiest of Holidays – and I will see you next year!
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