Dreamweaver
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
04-24-13 Self Assesment
Project
3 - Dreamweaver
ART
214.01
Introduction
to Digital Media Art
Professor
Billy Friebele
April
24, 2013
The
central theme of my work for Project 3- Dreamweaver was recreating the website
for Café des Artises restaurant in Leonardtown, Maryland. The owners of the Café des Artises have
supported Saint Michael’s School where I teach Art. Loic and Karleen Jaffres host an art exhibit
and artist brunch for the student artists.
I my inspiration for the website developed from a review of the top French
restaurant websites in Washington, D.C.
I
meet three times in person with Karleen Jaffres to discuss the website and
gather information. On my last meeting I
showed Karleen a sample of the website that I created for her. I listened to Karleen describing what she
wanted the website to function. I made a
chart from all the other sites on how the information was organized. The two of us decided how we could organize
the information on the website. This was
a great exercise for me to design the website.
Dreamweaver
website builder was challenging and frustrating during the process creating the
Café’s website. I started this project
with absolutely no experience with Dreamweaver program. I learned that with persistence and hours of
experience working with the program I began to understand the program. One thing I found out is make more folders
and organize your work. I also learned
do not move your files around you may lose the images if you keep moving the
files. I found that high quality images
are extremely important to the design and look of the website. I did not have control on the quality of
images that has caused some frustration for me in designing the website.
My
work habits were to outline the organization, function and look of the website. The organization and classification of the
website was a great beginning to work on the website. I continually reviewed the original function
and purpose of the website. I found that
this method worked well to develop and design the website. I could improve my work habits by having time
to acquire more photographs from the Café des Artistes. I budged my time properly and consistently
working on the project.
After
reflecting on the finished the finished project 3, I perceive that I achieved
and completed development of a website better than I could have imagined. During this website development process I was
able to figure out solve problems by trial and error. I have a great sense of accomplishment with
the completion of this project. I feel
that I accomplish my goal to develop a better functioning website for the Café. While I was developing the website I used art
principles and elements of art in the design.
I feel that the overall design and function of the website is
functioning well, easy to use and welcoming.
What has not worked as well is the quality and amount of images I had available. I will follow up with the Café to adjust the
website to acquire with better images and up to date information.
I
would give myself an “A” for this project.
I deserve the grade because of the amount of time and energy to learn
and create a website. I am pleased that
I did not know anything about the program and at the end of this class I feel
that I can develop and design another website.
Thank you for a spectacular class in Media Art design.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
04-14-13 Web Designers - Lounge Lizard
Lounge Lizard
Researching web designers were difficult to find one person firm. Most of the company have many designers who work together as a team. Lounge Lizard is one of those companies a large number of designers creating websites, apps and all kind of new applications for the state of the art devices.
The company's website is innovative and interactive. This company has a long and impressive list of clients. This site is perfect for a web designers page although cumbersome for a regular company's site. What is interesting about this company is their blogs have a lot of helpful information for helping a designer and client to decide on what would suitable for a website.
Please check out some of the blogs listed below:
http://www.loungelizard.com/web-design-company/
http://www.loungelizard.com/web-design-blogs/design/how-colors-in-web-design-affect-your-websites-message/
Monday, April 8, 2013
04-08-13 Artist Talk - Assassin's Creed III - The American Revolution
04-08-13 Assassin's Creed III - The American Revolution
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Corey May
Professor Ken Cohen hosted this lecture and Assassin's Creed III screen writer, Corey May. Corey May is co-owner of Sekretagent Productions. He graduated for Harvard in 1999. Professor Cohen ldiscussed the guidelines for the lecture and interview. The topic was on the representation of the American Revolution, accuracy of art as well as the broader meaning. We watched clips from the game and discussed point of view and accuracy of the game.
Corey was interviewed by the class on Skype during the second half of the lecture. A few of the questions related to why he choose the Revolutionary period. Corey said it was the narrative or theme and technology regarding the weapons and setting. The unexpected consequence is that the topic relates to a large audience. He said the marketing people loved the idea of the large audience for the game.
May said that they picked the particular events by the public knowledge of the events. Some events were not chosen for many reasons and he was not able to comment on the reasons why they did not choose a certain event. The team strives to be accurate although they use some artistic licence. Technically the scenes were as accurate as possible from clothing and locations. Experts were advising the team on the correct information. Dates and locations were accurate, architecture and language as much as they could document. Their goal was to be accurate and fun.
Corey noted a special emphasis to first person documentation and sources on as many of the characters as possible. May described the choice of the large amount of ethnic characters reflected what was happening at the time. This variety of characters made a richer script. One interesting note was that Professor Cohen noted that Corey May did his research. Cohen knew this fact because of the terminology and words May related during his question and answer session. Many of these game development ideas are crucial to make an intresting video game.
04-08-13 Cafe des Artistes Website - Flow Chart
On April 3, 2013, I meet with Karleen Jaffres, co-owner about the redesign of the Cafe's website. I showed her 10 of the top ten French restaurants in Washington, D.C. This was and eye-opening experience for both of us. There were good bad and horrible websites eve-though the restaurant is top rated. We walked through each site picking out the best qualities and how the website was organized. This flow chart is the final result of my meeting. I will meet with her on April 9, 2013 to review this document and acquire more photographs.
http://www.cafedesartistes.ws/
original website
new website
DIV TAG
movable website to fit variable sizes
Sunday, April 7, 2013
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