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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
DIG 315 Week 5 In Review
This week I have my Front Page Website all storyboarded out. The website itself will be dedicated to my family. It will revolve mainly around the boys and their exploits, but will also include pages about me and my hobbies, etc. The idea is that any one of our friends and families will be able to visit the site and catch up on how the boys are growing and what they are into. Also, I update a newsletter page which will be very satirical in nature and hopefully will add some good humor to the site. I have been looking at the freewebs and also am considering hosting my own domain and the biggest difference in what I have found is that there is much more flexibility for the "amateur" web designer on the hosting sites than in Front Page. I am looking into grabbing some free software to add to my Front Page site, so that I can add a blog, but at this point, I'm not sure how easy it will be to insert it in. I will be doing more reading and research so I can figure it out. Microsoft has some good tutorials and also on b2evolution.net, I found some good info and feedback on web hosting and design and they also have a kick butt 2.0 blog software program. I am on revision 4,080 on my storyboards and website, so I know the rest of the week will be the same. Yea, snow, more time for me to play.
Paul Shingleton
Paul Shingleton
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
DIG 315 Week 4 In Review
Wow, I have become quite the critic when it comes to viewing websites. Let's start with 2 near and dear to my heart. The 1 st would be a site I created using my web space on Verizon. I used one of their templates and just uploaded pictures and some text and let them do all the work. I put it together about 3 years ago and at the time I was pretty happy about it. I just looked at it this past week for the 1st time in about 2 years and it was awful.
The text was hard to follow due to poor color choices and sizes. The links didn't necessarily tell exactly where you were headed and a couple went nowhere. The color combinations on the backgrounds and the text under the pictures sometimes oveshadowed the pics. The whole reason I put it together was to share pics with family and friends and I can see why no one spent much if any time there. I chose a poor title for the site. It was funny to me and a couple of other people that I know, but most people would look at it and say, "what?" I would pass right by it, if it wasn't mine. The goal of the site was to share family pics and info, but like I said, anyone coming across it including people that know us wouldn't be sure they were at the right place. Poor template design combined with my lack of knowledge of proper design and it was a disaster. My new one will be much better.
The 2nd site that I built was my MySpace page. I started out not knowing much html or other code, so I was kind of stuck with what I could find. It was very hard to read and follow and was not very pleasing to the eye. Dark background with bold-faced dark fonts, not very appealing at all. Also, I had the background picture following you as you scrolled which made it even more distracting and hard to read and follow. The goal of the page was kind of hard to determine, but you could if you looked hard enough. Now it is improved. Not up to par yet, but much more contrast in colors and fonts between background and text and pics. I took a template I found and have started tweaking it with what I have learned in html and it is improving.
I think it is great that anyone can sit down at a computer and make their own website. It gives you the freedom to show who you are and promote your own business or views or artistic ability. Of course in the wrong hands, it can be dangerous and hurtful. A great majority of what is on the web is junk. Poorly designed, no true goal of content or only out to shake someone down for money. I like that I can go online run a search and find someone in Israel or Thailand or Tibet who likes the same music I do and we can connect and share common thoughts. Very cool. It would be redundant of me to talk about the drawbacks to this freedom, because it is well known that the internet can be a very dangerous place also. It is the freedom of it all that draws me in.
Paul Shingleton
The text was hard to follow due to poor color choices and sizes. The links didn't necessarily tell exactly where you were headed and a couple went nowhere. The color combinations on the backgrounds and the text under the pictures sometimes oveshadowed the pics. The whole reason I put it together was to share pics with family and friends and I can see why no one spent much if any time there. I chose a poor title for the site. It was funny to me and a couple of other people that I know, but most people would look at it and say, "what?" I would pass right by it, if it wasn't mine. The goal of the site was to share family pics and info, but like I said, anyone coming across it including people that know us wouldn't be sure they were at the right place. Poor template design combined with my lack of knowledge of proper design and it was a disaster. My new one will be much better.
The 2nd site that I built was my MySpace page. I started out not knowing much html or other code, so I was kind of stuck with what I could find. It was very hard to read and follow and was not very pleasing to the eye. Dark background with bold-faced dark fonts, not very appealing at all. Also, I had the background picture following you as you scrolled which made it even more distracting and hard to read and follow. The goal of the page was kind of hard to determine, but you could if you looked hard enough. Now it is improved. Not up to par yet, but much more contrast in colors and fonts between background and text and pics. I took a template I found and have started tweaking it with what I have learned in html and it is improving.
I think it is great that anyone can sit down at a computer and make their own website. It gives you the freedom to show who you are and promote your own business or views or artistic ability. Of course in the wrong hands, it can be dangerous and hurtful. A great majority of what is on the web is junk. Poorly designed, no true goal of content or only out to shake someone down for money. I like that I can go online run a search and find someone in Israel or Thailand or Tibet who likes the same music I do and we can connect and share common thoughts. Very cool. It would be redundant of me to talk about the drawbacks to this freedom, because it is well known that the internet can be a very dangerous place also. It is the freedom of it all that draws me in.
Paul Shingleton
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