Thank you!

This online class has been very difficult and challenging, but I feel that I have come out of it knowing much much more than when I came in. Even though our last project of designing a website is difficult because of time , I have really enjoyed watching my website come together from the flash features in it to just the simple little steps that look really really hard but then to find out there just pretty gosh darn simple.

One of the techniques I used to make everything run so smoothly is to take the slicing tool in photoshop, slice up my box's then go to file and save for web and devices. When you save it you can immediately open it in dreamweaver and WHALA! You have your website in perfect order! Yeah!

Seeing how it goes from dreamweaver to the Internet browser is crazy.

Despite the amount of work that online design requires I am glad that I signed up for the course and that I stuck it out all semester. I have learned more in this class and it will help me achieve my personal goals in the future.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, I am so excited that I have learned how to create a website that functions, I am very excited to dig deeper into dreamweaver over the years to come. You have taught me something that I will use for the rest of my life.

Hmm

So my day has become a little better, It really really sucks when you put so much time, effort and energy into a project and then its just gone over night. I have lost all motivation to do anything

Yeah

Websites, I love websites, I can see me creating websites in the future, I have sat down and sketched out a few but they all seem to look very much like a template, so I have decided to go out on a limb and do something that resembles, me, my family, CDP. The background is clouds and then there are images of CDP.

They look very crisp and clean there is a Shadow behind Contemporary and it looks very neat, the buttons look like buttons when you press them. There will be some sort of flash at the very begging, It is starting to come a long. Yeah.

Lets see, things that frustrate me in dreamweaver,

when you have a template a certain size you can't change it unless you change it to every single page.

Scroll bars are hard to find.

Trying to make everything not look so boxy.

Thinking of new ideas, trying to make it look different.

Resizing images! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!

Flash and Dreamweaver

BLAH!!! That is how I feel with flash right now and this project, everything I seem to do seems so tinnny tiny. I don't get it. I want to do more then text, but when I put image's in there it looks so small that you can't tell what the image is.

Maybe I will just go with simplistic and see where that takes me. I like simplistic things so why don't I try to incorprate it into design.

Ok, Done with that project so lets learn DREAM WEAVER YEAH!

I am going to design a website for a company called Contemporary Design. Lets see what I can do!

Font's and Articles

Just sitting here watching the cowboy game, wondering thinking about design and the project in my head. My first idea was to re cap the website and make it into a smaller formula that could be sunk into either a cell or a palm useing wireless capability. Then I thought about how does that pertain to design. So I came up with everything from short definitions of design to long definitions of design.

I want to do more then just text.

I want to do something with more in it. I just can't think of anything So I looked through font's and I have looked at some websites and nothing is coming along. So I guess I will keep on thinking and hopefully something will pop up. I am still running in circles trying to figure out Flash and button's.

Is there a way to click on a button and let it take you to another page in flash, or is that just in dream weaver? I want to learn so much and there is just so little time to do it in.

I am going to go with my gut and say that Flash is just like a movie and you can put buttons in it but it won't send you some where else. I will see what happens. hmmm... Let's let the wheels start turning...

marsha

The more I learn the more excited I get and on Design!

I AM SO ECSTATIC THAT I AM LEARNING BUTTONS!!! YEAH!!

OK Now that I got that out, I am so incredibly excited about leaning how to do action script withing Flash! I think it is so cool. This is what I want to do for a living, I want to create really cool flash presentations for the Internet, I know I have a long way to go, but I am ecstatic about learning it. YEAH!!!

I can not wait until Dreamweaver!!!

I have been in the process of designing a website basically from a template website, for a company called Contemporary Design, and I can not wait to really dig into flash and learn Dreamweaver there are just so much you can do when you design it from scratch then when you use a template document. Here is CDP's Website

Now on Design...
What is Design?
How do you define design?

Dictionary.com defines design as, "Click Here"

My first response was "Design is a process, it is a good idea, it is a premeditated plan to achieve a specific goal."

Then I thought about it for a while and here is what I came up with..."Design has to be balanced which is an equality with in a work, it has to have proportion this means having a relationship to elements one to another regarding to size. Design has to do with infesis on one thing that dominates weather it be brighter, bolder, bigger or smaller. Design needs some sort of sequence or order. Lastly Design needs to be united in a way where everything works as one element."

You then asked me can design be function? My answer is yes in actually design is Art and it can be any thing that you create from the mind.

That's my thoughts on Design...

marsha

Written Notes

Very 1st story Board
1. Red Riding Hood getting Ready in Car
2. Walk to the Bar
3. Good Guy and Lil Red
4. GG and Lil Red and Bad Guy
5. GG, LR, BG Talks to LR
6. GG Tell's BG off
7. GG and LR walk into bar holding hands
8. GG buys LR a drink
9. GG and LR in Bar laughing
10. GG gets phone number

(Need to Incorporated wolf or Grandmother some how into it)
(Think in layers and Actor's in Layers)

Back up work, Back up work, Back up work!!!

Area's that need work movement in bar and mountain scene, add cloud movement, work on leg movement work on the end, figure out what Lil red can do to kill wolf.


Process: When I started with the story Board, I had to big and to broad of an idea. Then I went to start by Red driving to her local bar to meet someone. I then changed it yet again and had Little Red go to her local bar by herself and Red was able to attack the wolf whom happened to be her local bartender.
I kept trying to find images that I liked and I just couldn't find anything. SO I ended up creating everything free hand in illustrator and importing it into Flash. I had so many layers.

My biggest problem with this project is every time I went to save a document the computer would absolutely freeze on me. It was so frustrating.

One thing that tremendously helped was watching cartoons. I don't watch much TV but when I was watching the cartoon network, I realized that flash is EVERYWHERE. I then was just watching my local TV show on Thursday night and I counted the number of Ad's that used even just a little bit of flash and I was amazed. Out of 16 ads during Grace Anatomy 12 of them used Flash in some way.

I think it is really cool to be able to look at a flash document and have an idea on how that was created.

Well that's it for now, I need to find a definition for Design. I will talk to you later.

marsha

Flash~Integrating sound
Transfer to an AIF file.
Keep the song with the File ALWAYS!
File Import Library/ Sync to Strain.
Bottom layer sound. More generic the better, drag sound to the stage and then set it as a key frame.