10 Shopping days to Christmas

The website is coming along nicely now after a bit of encouragement and CSS. A layout has been achieved with help from John, directing me in the right direction.

From instruction I am going to go to a number of tutorial sites such as Max Design to investigate the use of a 3column layout within my initial design.

Over the next few weeks I will be creating the site using CSS alone, (that should be fun). On a more positive note though, I’m starting to enjoy the IME project, it stated off a bit slow and boring, having to write the web plan. We are now to the fun part of the assignment, time to play about with designs, colour and layouts, this is something I much rather would be doing.

To do List for this Week: IME related

• Make final decision on layout, from sketches
• Draw up final designs on A4
• Create a digital Mock-up of the site
• Start to experiment with layouts (CSS)
• Research .htacess, to use on Portfolio site

Over the next week:

• Create website
• All of the above
• Make sure basic file structure is put in place
  

That’s it for today, time fly’s by when you are creating web layouts and designs. Here’s one I’ve been created today, many more to come so I’ll post them when they’re done.

Feedback welcome

Portfolio Website Designs

This week I'm trying something new, I was told that my blog looked a little sparse and could do with some images. So I have decided to upload some of my designs onto my blog for some feedback.

Also a quick update you can visit my portfolio website by click the web link on the left or the new domain name amc-design.

Some quick designs knocked up in Photoshop, tell me what you think as comments are welcome.


Design 1:


Design 2:


Designs are unfinished at the moment, as you can see some of the layers are still visible, forgot to hide them.

Bought some books from amazon yesterday, seen as I saw that someone on the first year had bought them and Dave S has bought them, I thought it would be a good investment even though the date of print is slighly old, it is always good to have more knowledge.

• Design Basics Index
• Layout Index
• Ideas Index
• Photo Idea Index

Jim Krause Books

No need for an instruction book

A11_OntheJob:

A11_onthejob, current status of the assignment is going well up to press, today we are one man down, wounded in action. So today Luke as been the acting Prime Minister for the day, oh sorry the project manger.

So today we have had to re-jig the production schedule a little, however we received an email of what was needed to be done by the 5/12/06. I think were well on the way and have made good progress today; layout and Final digital designs are near completion.

Layout is coming along nicely, CSS has been used, all be it having to play about with it to make it sit where it should, but we are well on track for today. We are hoping to finish the design over the next week, using the time available to us both Monday and Tuesday.

Work done up to press, will upload designs on further blog entry, some time this week.

6 Month learning Plan:

Just learnt something new, I need to comment on my 6 month learning plan this week, thought it was just the assignments, anyway here we go.

I have just completed a learning contract for the task in which I will be undertaking as part of the Unit life long learning skills. The learning plan will asses the skills learnt over the 6 month period by gaining experience, completing and finishing tutorials on the subject area chosen by myself, as in previous Blog.