Background color: #HFFF Text color: #6D6D6D and #D6D6D6 for header. Links change to #000 on rollover All Text Palatino Linotype. The email on the contact page was made with help of the control panel that came with the domain name. With it I was able to create an email address that would automatically forward any mail to my personal account. This [...]
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Final Site Plan
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Planning
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As stated before my website has to be simple and visual to succeed in its purpose. Links will be kept to a minimum and a lack of graphics will help focus attention on the photographs contained in the site. As well as a few fixed images to make the pages look less bare I will [...]
Marketing and Promotion on the Internet
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are many ways to promote and advertise your site/product with regards to the internet. Some ways are free and some you pay for and with a bit of work you can get where you want to be; in eyesight of your audience. Emails are a good way to send out information to the masses [...]
Usability and Accessibility in the context of Web Design
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With such a variety of individuals using the internet there are a lot of factors to take into consideration when building a website. Usability deals with the relationship between the person using a website and the website itself, if the two dont get along then the usability is poor. A person must be able to accomplish what it [...]
Applying my chosen comp to Dreamweaver
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I decided to go with the comp below as my final choice. To design this in Dreamweaver I had to create six ID Div Tags to give it structure and shape. First the wrapper to contain everything and inside that whent the header, footer and content box. The content box was created to hold the [...]
Index Comps
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My first comps done in Photoshop. Trying to keep it simple and think about my target audience. This last one is my favourite so far, though without the black border.
Theme
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a photographer the website I am building will be used to exhibit my work on the internet along with personal information, my portfolio. As it may be viewed by possible employers the layout and functionality must be simple but attractive. By looking at other photographers website’s I was able to get an idea of what would [...]
Searching for a domain.
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By using google I was able to use a domain host site to search for a suitable domain name that was free. searching on www.123-reg.co.uk I found that the domain name that would be preferable ( www.oliversharpe.co.uk ) was infact still free. I decided to go with a .co.uk because .com was too global and my website will be personal and so .org suffix [...]
My first index draft
Posted in Building my first xhtml website on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My first hand drawn attempt at an index page.
