Date : 18th March 2008
Time : 8.18AM
Listening to : Perfect Moment - Martine McCutcheon
Where : Room

Aih... Finally the layout for project 2. Not too sure if the colours will come out right on your computer screen. For mine it looks fine. Tell me if it works/looks fine from your screen ok?

Labels: WD1 Project2, Web Design 1

Date : 17th Marh 2008
Time : 1.35AM
Listening to : Nothing
Where : Room

Did some research for typo regrading design agencies. Instead of doing Leo Burnett, Saatchi&Saatchi, I decided to check up on design agencies that did some good stuff but noobie me never heard of them. Well, I am secretly hoping others will be doing Leo Burnett, Saathi&Saatchi and Ogilvy&Mather tomorrow so that I will know more about them. I did research on the 5 Giants of the Ad Industry but I couldn't really register mch for now. Anyway... I decided to share on these 5 agencies. Check them out.

TBWA
3nitydesign
McCann Erikson
draftfbc
y&r

Dunnoe why my brain is not taking in info well these few days. Kinda feel the stress streaming in. Not because of work to be honest. More to personal struggle in spiritual sense. Gah... Nevermind.

Anyway... I have an awareness video to share.



It's really cool how they send the message across. =)

Anyway... This is my latest webdesign layout. I...don't like it that much. I still think my first try looks fresher. What do you guys think? Wahyu gave his feedback saying it's better cos' it's not bounded by box. Selvia thought it looks less cluttered. Hmmm... They have a point there. But my housemate prefer the previous ones. Hope to hear more feedback. Please do comment yea. Thanks. Below is the main page.


-chen-
[1.48AM]

Labels: On assignment progress, sharing, TDM, WD1 Project2

Date : 11th March 2008
Time : 7.41AM
Listening to : Water dripping
Where : Room





Hmm... The interface is not exactly finished yet. I totally forgotten about 2 other things to be put in it. The breadcrumbs and also user log in area.Will touch up later on. Well... Anyway... The colours, hmmmm.... I am considering to touch up on that also. Was really in rush of time. Electricity was out yesterday. I have around 2 more sub pages to do. Ok..Anyway, I will now describe my website's navigation.

The main navigation will be on the side. It's very simple and straight-forward. There are 4 other pages besides homepage. The tutorials will be filed under "Ideas+Projects". User can have the option of clicking the link and to browse through what tutorials are there OR choose from the menu tree. Under the "Materials+Tools", there will be a brief introduction to the different materials and tool recommended for projects. Inside this page, there will be an i-frame to hold all the content. For the "Scrapbook" page, there will be image thumbs for user to click on. This page holds the contribution of other users and their work. The image thumb will serve as the link. When clicked, a window pop up will appear and display the work. All the templates and images that will aid the user in projects will be filed under "Download". Here user can click on the image thumb to download the desired templates. Indication of the user location will be shown on the lower right corner. So basically, my site will utilize the side, menu tree, image thumbs, pop up window and breadcrumbs navigation system.

That's all for now. If no images could be seen loaded in this post, it's probably the google server probs. And yea...please comment yea.

Labels: On assignment progress, WD1 Project2, Web Design 1

Date : 4th March 2008
Time : 4.00AM
Listening to : Nothing
Where : Room

Finally... Managed to get the layout that I want. But I am still not that satisfied yet. Looks a bit cluttered. There are still some adjustments that I need to do. But for now, I hope to hear some suggestions.


I think some of the elements are too big. Afraid the buttons will be below fold. Will change that. But other than that, my main page will look more or less like this.

-chen-
[4.06AM]

Labels: WD1 Project2, Web Design 1

Date : 27th February 2008
Time : 10.22AM
Listening to - Rock with you - Michael Jackson
Where : Room

Yesterday I decided to just shift my tools and materials nearer to me so that it will be near bed, near references, near scanner, near computer, near resources and so on. Save time fro walking thru and fro. So now my shelves really look empty and my bed area really congested. As usual...since school days, my bed = workstation. Anyway... Yesterday I continued experimenting with texture and possible background for the title design. And also tried scanning the alphabet for the initial of my page name. Still have to do some color editing.













And this is some photos that I took. The lighting and color mood will be something like this la. Hope can achieve the same kind of lighting and mood when I do the tutorial. So prob have to do saturday morning already cos' at night the lighting will be so yellowish or greyish due to my fluorescent light. Like the photos I took yesterday.

Labels: WD1 Project2, Web Design 1

Date : 26th February 2008
Time : 7.38AM
Listening to : Fan spinning
Where : Room

I surfed the web and I came across these few beautiful websites to feast my eyes on.

orangebeautiful.com(blog)
orangebeautiful.com(official site)
designformankind
cricketpress.com
luxepaperie.com
theartblob
essimar.etsy.com
creativeorganizing
shimelle.com

I find these websites rather helpful an inspiring especially for this current project for web design. Well, anyway, I am quite ashame to say that I didn't progress that much since last week. Did some cuttings for the interface design purpose. Still not quite satisfied with the color selection. Have to enhance on photoshooting also. And so my whole interface will look like either a scrapbooking style or handmade card style or simply just cutting mat and materials style. Below are the cuts that I've made.




These are some of the references I will be referring to.






Will update on assignment soon.

-chen-
[8.14AM]

Labels: On assignment progress, WD1 Project2, Web Design 1