Archive for February, 2008

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/fireworks/articles/frwcs3_webdesign.html
This reading was great because it was right on point with what we have to be thinking about right now, with beginning the process of making our website for the final project. It just, kind of, confirmed how I was going to start everything and gave me more ideas, i.g. Things to know about the client [...]


http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-design-tactics
 The author of this article gives advice about how to deal with being stuck when designing. One tip is Design from the inside out. I found this to be a good tip because I could see myself working on the header of a page forever, when doing my final project, thinking it doesn’t look right, and if [...]


http://bokardo.com/archives/five-principles-to-design-by/
This article talks about the difference between art and design. Art is timeless and is made from expression to be appreciated. Design serves a purpose and is made, hopefully, to work well.
 I liked the quote at the end of the article, ” In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no [...]


Navigation Bar

27Feb08

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/02/week5/navbar.htm
With this assignment I learned how to make a navigation bar with rollovers and effects. The link is above. Thank you.


Sssooo I was thinking about maybe doing a web site for a friend of mine named Georgeo who owns his own company, (he does house construction, but I have to get way more info on that), ooorrrr a web site for St. Mary’s English as a Second Language Program who’s mission is to help non-native speakers [...]


http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/02/week3/
I learned how to make a basic site with files that were given to us. We made links in Dreamweaver and linked them to the respective files and sites. We FTPed our work and the link is at the top of this post.


Ch2, 3, 4

06Feb08

Hello. It takes me forever to do the chapters in the book. kinda makes me feel dumb. haha. One problem when doing chapter 4, I was trying to do the pipe symbol  (shift+/) is that right? It wasn’t working.