Website Evaluation.

Above is a screen shot of the home page of my website. Being the first ever website I have created I decided to keep it simple and keep the original logo and colours that the shop (COW) already had, which was mostly a light blue, but I thought I would change that to a patterned vintage wallpaper, as it is still sticking to there colours, but adding more character. I also decided to make up a little tag line for them being, 'We are not sheep.' Which I put on the footer so it would stay in the same place and be on every page. I wanted all of the pages of the site to have the same set up with different content.

COW do not have a website at all at the moment and claim to not want one as they have a blog... So I could pretty much put anything I wanted onto the site.

I added some jQuery and JavaScript routines to my website including pop up boxes and used the mouseover routine on the image on my front page, I think this adds to the site and draws you in as it's on the first page.

I think my website is a good representation of the shop in Nottingham as it has a vintage feel and is simple, easy to navigate and not too high maintenance.

Portfolioness

This is what I have done of my portfolio so far, when in action the bumble bee flies across the screen and all the clouds are buttons... :)

Simon Lewty

I really like this guy... His work is not dissimilar to my pictures I drew on the squiggly lines worksheet... His stuff is really quite strange and I love the way he mixes text and images... I used to do that all the time at college but got told off for it... I think I shall bring that baby back!

This one reminds me of the animation from the children's show, 'Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids.'

The Site So Far...

Ergh... I am so bad at coding, probablys because I've been off so much, I really am sick of being sick though... Badness! But anyways, I've done a design in photoshop of what I'd like the web site to look like, and what I have actually done so far... :/

What I'd like the site to look like... But with a different background that I have made myself not just a random picture...

And this is what it looks like so far... Hmm... There's room for improvement to put it nicely... I really want to make it so the blue background stays in one place and the white strip just scrolls down, but, what a surprise, I have no idea how to do that...

My Portfolio Design...

I think if I could design my portfolio anyway I could, I'd pretty much just have a big Flash file... I really like little carttony style websites that move, like in mine I would have bees and butterflies buzzing around and the cloud buttons moving slowly in the wind... :)

This is a quick wireframe for my portfolio... Everything in a box... :)

What do you see, you people gazing at me?

I really liked doing this little exercise thing... But when I had finished I realized that mostly I drew fish and women's body parts... Deary me...

First Wireframe...

These are my first wireframes... I did them quite a while ago, but I have no scanner so I had to photograph them...