Miller Design

so for my design on my individual web page i wanted to see if i couldn't break out of what a website should look like and just make it what i want it to look like. my design idea is a page that is a standard width across but the more information on the page the further it goes down until you haft to move to another page. this idea flowed from my calendar idea there fore creating a link between the two whilst also keeping in the same design idea and style linking them together again.

So I received my feedback for the draft and to be honest I was surprised with the feedback i had gotten. The essay had been marked and key points I had made had been highlighted were my tutor had then said that these points were key to my argument and well done for making it clear and i have tended not to generalize my whole argument and focused on the when and where of the designs involved in the argument. there was one point were a small sentence generalized slightly but that was due to its wording and not what I was trying to state.  

To be honest essays are not my favorite or strongest parts of my work and i was impressed with how well i had done on this essay so far. I feel that I can put that down to having a well timed plan, good resources and points that i had found. This essay did take a fair amount of time but for me if I had rushed it would of been full of mistakes and more than likely not read through properly and make the key points i wanted to make relevant seem as important as i thought they were.

There have been patterns emerging in my work that i am not comfortable with. i have been trying to produce work for the website project that i feel looks like a website instead of me defining what i feel a website should be. but the coding is proving to be really hard due to my websites unusual nature (so mainly my fault its so hard) but i do keep trying to correct this and make the code work but i fear that i may not be able to and will haft to change my design which i would really regret as i feel it ties in all elements of my work together at the moment and makes it really feel as a professional project without trying to make it look like one. 

We have over the last few weeks been trying to make sure that the research in which we do becomes beneficial in our work and shows how that work has influenced the designs we are creating. we have been also offered and showed how we can benefit from the university's resources and all the paid listed stuff they get in for our department that we should make use off because it can add in key elements to our work that some time's the internet may not be able to provide.  

we was also shown some relevant special books that are only available with turning up and asking to view them and some of them like the collections of eye magazine and elephant magazines and books that range from cheap production all the way up to expensive special releases. 

It was clear what type of person I was I was the shaper of the group always pushing for work to be done argumentative provocative outgoing personality that was also impatient and wanted things to be done and done quick. I found that this skill is good for keeping the group up to date and pushing them to complete work for deadlines but I was also a finisher where work had to be perfect and everything done right so in a way I seen my self now as the motivator like the grinder to the gears to keep them moving and also the spray mount if you like that aloud for a nice smooth clean finish to the mounted work (bit of a weird metaphor but you kind of see where I’m coming from).

Html image maps

In this session I was getting to grips with image mapping what this is it where you hover over the area and be able to click on certain points that link you to different webpages so intern its a link without a actual link.

I have always struggled with my writing especially in essays. I find it really hard to get my head down in to my work and always end up sitting there with if you like a writer's block. I know what I want to say in my head but I just can't convay that message into a way that allows all to recognise and understand. But with the aid of my dyslexia tutor she helps me make sense of all my jumbled up conversations in my head and link them into a written essay that makes sense, works and meets the standard that is required of me. I found that some times with out the aid I am given due to my learning difficulties I would not complete my work to a standard that would be expected of me finding my self to be marked lower so I am happier with the help I get to allow me to complete a written work to a standard that will comply with my design work level.

in class today i have been researching into book design because i have been stumped on weather the design should have larger name over titles. i have figured out that depending on weather the author is better known for their work or weather its the book trying to sell its self.

i have came to the conclusion that with this authors book being published for a rather long time now the conclusion i came to was that people will recognise the author and then look at the name of the book. 

so in this lesson of html we were applying grids/tables to the code and figuring out how o layout key parts into the design of the site.

we had key new code that played a massive part in this and i need to make sure that i have a basic knowledge and i am putting this into practice making sure that i have good idea and understanding of this.

i am finding this topic really enlightening and finding key areas in these processes and linking things i learn into my designs and teams designs making sure that we can recreate these styles and designs into the work.

Yesterday we had a team presentation for an interim part of the module so far. the group i have is a decent group we are coping very well and find our strengths lie in the way we communicate with one another, we get our ideas across to one another then adapt some of those ideas into a group designed piece that combines all elements of our strong points and views to turn it in to a well groomed design. we have had problems with attendance at the start but we managed to get by that by just complying together and sticking it out.  

So today in our teams we have been able to sit down and work through a wire frame and thumbnail for our website designs rendering our working process of these designs to a development stage. we discovered that by adding a banner to the top of the page and fixing it there we may be able to create a easier link all the way back to the homepage and minimizes the time spent scrolling on pages all the way to the bottom and then back to the top creating a sense that its easier to navigate for the customer (viewer) 

In this session of hyper text markup language we were applying web graphic code in to the web pages and learning all the basics, and after a little of intuition I started to add in little bits of my own code to make the images I imported to move around and alter the speed. I found that I can make and adjust details in the code to make objects more confusing and more complicated and can take this so much further.

I find that by learning all this coding skills i can eventually start to code my own designs and details onto a website that i create for myself or even turn my hand to web design as a extra skill to my graphic design degree.