Monday, February 15, 2010

Week 4





Craft: This week we had to design a welcome homepage in the program Dreamweaver. We took image captures of our blog website and my two other websites. We incorporated these images into the the welcome page. I want my page to look very unique and different. I chose dark gray as the background and purple to go behind the text. I needed to spice my page up a bit, so I imported an image of clouds into photoshop. In photoshop, I played around with the image a bit and added it onto my page. I am still playing around with my website, but I have captured the before and after for you!

Monday, February 1, 2010

Week 3

Craft: This week I was introduced to the website hostmonster. I was able to set up an account and from there I loaded my entire iweb document. I established my website domain as www.mandycb.com/iweb1 and www.mandycb.com/iweb2. I wanted to double check my website to make sure that everything looked seamless. Though, I did find too much negative space for the majority of my pages. In order to improve my website, I will need to add more images and more text. Therefore, that will be homework for me to work before next week.

My Website
http://mandycb.com/iweb1
http://mandycb.com/iweb2

Week 2


Concept: As we were given this assignment, I had no idea what topic I wanted to do. I knew I needed a collection of pictures and I needed to portray to my audience a story behind those pictures. I was caught a little off guard, because I had to quickly put together the first two pages of my website last week in class. I started to think creatively and I knew I wanted my site to be humorous to my audience. Therefore, I looked through a collection of my pictures.... and found Boo! I thought to myself..who doesn't love a cute, chubby, funny looking little bulldog. Basically, everyone has to love a bulldog. If anyone has met Boo, they would automatically think that shes a "pre-madonna" dog who craves all the attention she can get. Therefore, I came up with the idea "True Life- Im a Supermodel" because it reflects her true personality.

Craft: I had an array of pictures of Boo, but it just wasn't enough. I needed Photoshop to do the trick. I started to brainstorm ideas that I can photoshop into Boo's pictures. I started to google a variety of images; ie: lips, bathing suits, eye lashes, etc. From there I combined those images found on google to the images I had already. At times, it was a little tedious, but I wanted to fully execute the idea I had. I wanted to set the site up similar to as if it were Boo Gorgeous's website promoting herself. Therefore, on each page I combined images and text and spoke in first person as if it were really Boo writing. I wanted my site to be funny and I hope I achieved my goal.

Composition: As I stated earlier, I combined both pictures and text to complete my website. I wanted to use the negative space wisely, so I rarely have a wide-open blank space. Though, at times it was a little difficult coming up with different ideas to write about.