26.11.09 Thursday

Today i started my web site i created all 5 pages to start with then formed their structure through the table method. I'm happy with the layout so far but i think it still needs a few tweek. I have started adding images and photos of band members and merchandise. On monday i would like to add some videos from youtube and maybe something to play music or a link to some music.

I am finding it quite easy creating the website but i have had no feedback on the quality of my site yet. But this is by far the most interesting unit which may be the reason.

25.11.09 Wednesday

Today i was working on my website plan. Most of it is finished now the only page i haven't done is the colour scheme page. I like my page design as i spent a lot of time drawing out each page separately.

I couldn't do the colour scheme as i need to start making my website to get the colour codes off of photoshop. I have started the page and i know my two main colours are going to be black and red which where the two most common colours found on the similar websites.

23.11.09 Monday

Today John showed us how to use tables on Dream Weaver. It was my first time using Dream Weaver but I feel like i already get the jist of it, it's a very simple program to use then again we're only doing it at a basic level.

When making my website we used the table tool, inserted images and made rollovers. The only thing that i struggled with was the table when you had to re-size it as it was very fiddly. Here is an image of my website the only problem was when i re-loaded it some of my images had been deleted so 3 out of my 4 roll-overs have been deleted as well as my title image. But for a first attempt i think it's ok.

After finishing our websites i did some more of my website research.

18.11.09 Wednesday

I carried on with my research today i finished off the section on WWW but had to finish the rest of the reviews in the library.

I was actualy quite happy with my research especialy as i managed to do most of it in one day (12 pages)

The two good websites i reviewed where the disney website and an australian soap company.

The two bad ones where a border collie web site and some random web site with hundreds of adverts on.

16.10.09 Monday

Today I continued my research on the third unit we're doing "web design".

I think the research i have done is of better quality than my other units this is because I have done it all by hand even most of the pictures are hand drawn so far.

But this has made it slightly more time consuming this combined with other things means i'm a little bit behind i think.

Today i desided i think i'm going to base my website on the red hot chili peppers. this is because i couldn't think of any recent games that i liked or knew enough about to make a web site for them.

11.11.09 Wednesday

Today we continued with our research on the history of the World Wide Web i have now finished my first 3 pages on the history of the world wide web which I'm quiet happy with i will need to go back and give it some more colour at a later date but the text and content i am happy with for now. I have also done a page and a half of the contribution to the world wide web. which may also need a little bit more colour later on.

Since we have been doing this unit i have learnt that there is a difference between the Internet and the www which is apparently a common miss conception.

The next few pages have to be on what is the www which I'm not looking forwards to but after that we need to do some web site reviews which should be a lot more fun as we will have more freedom picking and analyzing the websites.

09.11.1990 Monday

Today we started the next unit which is for web design. which i think will interest me a lot more than advertising did. We are doing research first 18 A3 pages which sounds a bit excessive on the world wide web and reviewing four different web pages two good two bad. I'm looking forwards to actually creating the web site.

I have done two pages of my research today but i don't have any pictures to put up.

We had to do some sort of navigational skills exercise where we had to find door names within the college i think this was to show how important it is to have clear instructions and paths Including within a website.

I reviewed a web site which i thought was a good example of web design i chose YouTube as i couldn't find 1 problem with it. It has a good layout looks visually appealing, has good community features and is very easy to use.