First design I idea - First attempt

Since Ive been designing a website for my swimming club, I thought I best actually start desigining. So I did. Heres my first design. I like it. Although, compared to others in my group its pretty rubbish. You have to remember Ive never done anything like this before though...

So here it is. Ill design probably 2/3/4 more. But I like this. Even though I know you arent just supposed to go with your first idea. I think it works nicely, is relevent and to the point clearly.

Since its just the first attempt, and just the home page, theres a few 'tweeks' that need to be made (Thanks to Sam Marsh for pointing those out!). Theyl be done very shortly, with more designs.

But if anyone actually reads this... please let me know what you think!

Colour Scheme Designer

After Tuesday's tutorial with Simon (which was very useful I might add) I came away with this. Its another colour wheel, but it doesnt only show you the colour and give you the code for it, it shows colours which contrast well to this colour. Its amAZing. Thanks Daryl K! Heres a little screen shot and the URL for those of you who want to pay it forward.

Colour Scheme Designer

Logo Change

Also during todays lecture/seminar, we've been given the task of changing a logo/brand to see what it would look like in a different colour. Does it look good compared to the original or not? Lets see...

Color Wheel

Before I start, sorry for the americanism.

So Whilst in todays Shaun lecture, we talked a lot about colour and what goes with what. We were given the task of finding a colour wheel, basically something that gives you the RGB, percents and HTML codes for colours. He made us find our own so we can get used to using something we liked arather than something that he just gave us.

Anways, I found this one. and its really cool. Not only does it give you the link to the colour wheel, bu the page gives you information about which colours go together, and what certain colours mean.

Very interesting!!

Picture from http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.asp. Accesswed on 13th Nov 2009

My website idea

We've been given a project across the whole of the Exploring Multimedia modual to make a website based on a building, space or an environment. After due consideration I chose to do my swimming club. Ive been doing there since I was 3 and swimming since I was 14. Ive been teaching from then on and have been qualified for 4 years now. I love it. And Im now thinking of becoming a teacher, but thats another story.

So the first task we were given on this project was to design wire frames for the pages on what they were roughly going to look like. Never having made a website before, I thought this would be really difficult, but actually it was quite easy. However, thinking about the basic design got me thinking about colour schemes etc, and thats not what needs to be done right now.

The examples below are of the home page and staff profile pages. I chose the set the navigation at the top as its easy to find and I think would work well, but now Im thinking of changing it to the side so that drop-down menues can be created. Not sure yet though. These are just the initial designs and are NOT final. I'll have to see what people at swimming think.

Enjoy!

Grace Finally Has The Hang of Javascript!!!

YAY!

Here is what we did in todays seminar with David Downs.

(1) prints “Hello” to the screen 10 times by (a)
Sequence (b) Iteration

A


B



(2) asks the user to guess a number and tells the user if it is high, low or bulls eye :)




AND THEY ALL WORK!! :)

The 3 Websites

The Pirate Bay

I love this website. Ill admit I use it all the time, but thats only because us English are so behind on American TV! Thsi is a file sharing website where users can search for all most anything they want and download it to their own computer. Its easy to get around because you just have to type what you want to search for and your away. I'll admit that its pretty hard to use at first because the downloadable files are named in a sort of code, but once you get the hang of it your all good. The one thing you have to be careful of when using this site is getting caught downloading. Because its wrong. But I do love this site.

AZ Lyrics

This is a muscial lyrics website where the users can look up song lyrics to all most any song. It has a search function which is good to use, but most of the time its easier to go through the names alphabetically. The content is easy to find but is not very easily laid out. Personally, I think there are too many adverts on the page, but thats where the money comes from. The users can add new lyrics or amend old ones that might be wrong. If it was me, I would use this website because its quicker to just type the lyric straight into google. But its good if you know the artist your searching for.

Facebook

Everybody loves Facebook, and allmost everybody knows what it is. This entirely user-content based website allows old friends to reconnect and new freinds to meet. The users make their own 'profile' by adding information and pictures about themselves. Sometimes people can add abit too much information, and you have to be careful not to add anything too personal. Facebook has undergone many changes throughout the years adding in more content for there users to play with and also changing the layouts. I would say that this is one of the biggest, most used websites online at the moment. Its certainly the one I use the most.