Month: January 2013

The Final Screen Shots www.amandaferris.co.uk Evaluation: /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} I have thoroughly enjoyed diving into a new area of design, especially one with such large […]

Breaking down my External Cascading Style Sheet I decided to go through the different rules of id’s and classes I created through my style sheet.

Google Analytics I decided to install Google Analytic’s on my website. Having a website means having goals that I want a visitor to accomplish. Analytics is a valuable tool to have for monitoring and tracking efficiency of my site. It shows statistics from the amount of visitors to the path which visitors take through the […]

Project Page Layout The above two images are of the project page layout I have created for my website. This layout is a two column divide of content with the text and header on the left and the images on the right. The divide is not half and half because otherwise the images would be […]

Interactivity helps to make a website less static and adds visual interest. “Single user interaction” is all about engaging visitors by displaying content in a way which will attract users to spend more time on a website. It includes presenting navigation, photographs and text in a certain way. On my home page I have six […]

Selecting Content: When selecting how to represent my work, there’s the decision between whether to show the whole piece before viewing the whole work, or showing an interesting snippet of whats next. I’ve done some research into what is best for portfolio websites and found the majority suggest enticing the user further with an interesting […]

Work Page Design

Each image on my Work Page (and home page) represents a different project and a selection of my projects from both University and Personal. To deliver a little bit more information than just an image, I decided to include the names of the projects below each image with a ‘READ MORE’ link to take them […]

Building my work page: This page is a development of the front page layout with more options of work. And with Joomla set up I can easily continue to add further projects. Whereas the first page has just six. This is a blog layout and the class is named .blogwork These are set up into […]

My Contact page and About page: A contact form helps to make the contact process straight forward. It also helps to avoid spam mail from advertising personal information such as an email or a telephone number. I’ve included another image of the owl to balance the form and make the page more interesting. It lightens […]