Month: January 2013

Screen Based Communication 2 These two designs are for my portfolio/work page with all my work and the project page people see if they click on a project. I much prefer this grid layout for my work page. Each image has the project name below it with the ‘read more’ as a link to the […]

Screen Based Communication 2 Once placing my design into the browser, I decided that the coloured strip behind the boxes was too over powering. After also lightening the background, this is my design layout with images of projects in each box. I have also changed the navigation to simplify it. The active button is the […]

Screen Based Communication 2 This is a quick test with my design on how it may look in a web browser. Websites can look completely different when viewed in a browser.

Screen Based Communication 2 Further development into my web page design: The profile page is possibly second visited page of a designer if the viewer wants to look at work further. This idea above is an idea of grouping my work into categories. Then if an image is clicked, a lightbox (the second image) would […]

Screen Based Communication 2 Further development of my web design: From my last post I have developed the design and included the three boxes below the images. One is for information about me, one is a twitter feed and the final is for my social icons to get in further contact with me. I also […]

Screen Based Communication 2 When designing with the slideshow Idea, I found i was getting regularly stuck with layout ideas after my last design. I found it hard to consider other page layouts and decided to go back to my existing website research and realised that my other favourite layout idea is to demonstrate more […]

Screen Based Communication 2 – My Designs These two are the first of my design ideas for my website working with a 960 grid layout. These designs are based around the idea of having a main sldie show at the top that showcases a few pieces of my best work on a timer. I am […]

Setting up Joomla

How I went about installing Joomla: Going to Joomla.org- I downloaded the latest version of Joomla which is Joomla 2.5 I then connected to my web hosting via FTP to upload the Joomla files. The next step was to set up the mysql database using cpanel (cpanel is the control panel managing my website) Next […]

Content Managment Systems

Over the summer, I worked a lot with Joomla, a content management system that is php just like WordPress. It’s really easy to manage a website and it’s content, that make handling a website separate from editing the html. It’s ideal for companies that want to regularly update their content, as the designer can build […]