Shadow_bushido.com

My web page concept revolves around zero navigation meaning that when the viewer gets to my page all navigation occurs on one screen. Basically, once you land on my page you can navigate through the images with arrow keys located at the bottom of the page. Each image that is loaded will have accompanying title, medium and other written data relevant to the image. I want my page to be a simple, straightforward, and attractive portfolio of my work that will augment my resume. One web-design aspect that bothers me is having many windows or pages load me away from the main page. I like pages that I can navigate through without having to get lost in the page. 

Attempt #1

I always feel like the last horse out of the gate. Iwas just overwhelmed, but the collage sites inspired me. I need to add the word photography. I have some free fonts from the web, but don't know how to access them. I'm getting excited about this, wanting my site to be effective, but very individual.

Katie's Mock-up

So, this is my Photoshop Mock-up. I'm still experimenting with colors and layout, and I really like this one (the layout) because it's pretty simple, and doesn't have a whole lot of potential for confusing people or muddling things up. I know that I will probably be making more sections, such as subdivisions for the artwork itself (like digital, photography, so on..) and was thinking maybe a drop-down menu would be a highly organized way to do that. I still have a lot of experimenting to do before I feel I will be satisfied with the look and operation of my site.

Jerry Uelsmann

I have always been a huge fan of Jerry Uelsmann photography. I really like this website because it has easy navigation with a simple yet professional design.
http://www.uelsmann.net/

Three pages from Ken

I've posted three images. The first is the Entry Page, which will open at the start--the word "Enter" appearing only as a roll-over. Clicking will open the Main Page, with Ken Leslie Header and three options--Professional, Professorial and Personal. Again, those words will only appear as roll-overs.

The third page is the Home Page for Ruby's weaving website.

Brian's photoshop mock up

This my idea thus far...it has a long way to go. I want my web site to be simple, easy to navigate, and have an professional appearance. For the portfolio button I want to have a scroll down roll over feature, so that the viewer can navigate to different genres of my photography without clicking the back button.

the grass is green on this side too

Check out what our neighbors are getting into!

http://www.greatbiggraphics.net/

http://simplenation.com/

Window for displaying artwork_NOAH

This is what I'm thinking for a way to display my of my panel pieces that I have photographed. I plan to create a slide show window that you can zoom into individual panels by running the cursor over it, or selecting it to view the texture. Kinda like how new mac computers zoom into the icons when selecting a program... How would you display panel artwork?

Click here to check out how I them displayed now

Well, I just found http://www.collageart.org/links/ with a ton of artists and a great variety of web sites. Sally Jean is great, the style remains constant throughout the site with her own personal flavor. Clifford Alejandro is very clean, perhaps too many pages with dots to get somewhere. Lots to see.

Class Cancelled and Other Info

Hey all—

We will not be meeting tonight for class; I would suggest getting as far as you can with the bare-bones laying out and positioning of your home pages. On Monday, we will be moving on to buttons, images, and linking, so BE prepared to start adding these elements.
This afternoon I will be adding a readings menu to the right-hand side of the blog, make sure you do the required reading by Monday.
Also, for homework, by Monday, BEFORE class, upload a j-peg image of your Photoshop mock-up to the blog. I realize some of you have used layers to simulate navigating between pages; in this case, choose one image that gives us a good idea of your site layout. Also include a written description of your planned website. Email me if you have problems or questions.

bethanybond@hotmail.com

See you Monday; have a great snowy weekend!
bb

Web design tips

http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/webdesign_tips.asp

Some tips

mindblowing digital art

I stumbled on this site a while back, and that style just struck me as quite amazing. Its pretty neat to be able to find someone with this sense of abilty and percetion to create something like this.

http://www.neosurrealismart.com/

Aya Kato

One of my favorite digital artists, Aya Kato is a Japanese commercial illustrator working with the Adobe Suite. 

To criticize her page a bit, it requires using slider bars to view the entire page, a design factor that takes away from the grandeur of her work. 

I love her work though, it's like  a mixture of Egon Schiele, and Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, check her work out at paintalicious.org, a cool art community page. 

http://paintalicious.org/

Enjoy

Beautiful/Decay

Beautiful/Decay is an art publication that follows contemporary art movements, specifically postmodern art and design. The B/D blog is a great jumping-off point for surveying new new art and art movements so check it out. 

http://beautifuldecay.com/

Check out the "Tale of How" short animated film, it's too much!

web_design_how-to

I stumbled upon this helpful resource while trying to figure out how to approach designing my web page http://webstyleguide.com/page/index.html. There is a ton of info on this site for doing web page layout. Check it out!

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning!

This article from CSS tricks makes it easy to understand how absolute positioning inside relative positioning works.

http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/

CSS Positioning

Check out this website; pretty easy to understand with great examples. Read by Wednesday and check back whenever you need some review...

http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

www.noriomatsumoto.com

www.noriomatsumoto.com

I like nature photography and this site was easy to navigate. I thought it was cool being given the option to look at it full screen or standard. I enjoyed the general setup. It's a simple slideshow and I liked the darker background.

You say (pə-tā'tō).....I'll say [pUH-tey-tuh]

These sites are interesting...
Eric Chan uses has harnessed some fun interactions with his viewers (especially if you own a MacBook), and despite all of this site's complexities it is still straight-forward and easy to use.
http://www.ericchandesign.com/

However, I think the Lucuma site is more aesthetically interesting and has a better user-friendly layout. Don't be daunted by the language English speakers!! This is some basic stuff...
http://lucuma.com.ar/

p.s. I found the second site here:
http://dzineblog.com/2008/09/getting-creative-with-javascript.html

Greenfield

I chose this site because Lois Green field is one of my favorite photographers. My favorite photography that she does is known as airborne. I love that her subjects can defy gravity. I also found her website easy to navigate around. One aspect of her site that I liked was that after choosing one of her types of styles off the home site, the list dropped to the left of the screen so it was easily accessible. http://www.loisgreenfield.com/index.html