Vinmedia's Blog

Final Thoughts

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:44:25 +0000

I feel like I learned a lot in MCMA 301 this semester. I developed a greater design sense, and became much more accustomed with the Adobe Suite. Especially in Photoshop. Before the semester I knew very little about optimizing images for the web. I also had no idea how to create a web layout in Photoshop. I think learning how to design a website in PS, slice it, and upload it into Dreamweaver was my greatest achievement. I also am happy that I now know how to create some basic flash, as well as some new tricks in DW, and a bit of code. I think this class was beneficial to my design skills, and knowledge of Adobe. I hope anyone that views my website enjoys it.

Sincerely,

VinMedia

Problems fixed

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:38:03 +0000

I fixed the errors I had with all of my pages. I think I even successfully embedded my video to my page. It is a great feeling to finally have this website completed. There are some things that I would like to change as time goes on but as for now all of my pages and links function. I am proud of my site, and I think it is a great start to my online portfolio. The site is uploading to the web right now so I hope everyting comes out properly.

Vimeo

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:48:50 +0000

I tried to embed my video from vimeo to my page. However, when I did it moved most of my content around and didn’t seem to work properly. I hope I can find a solution to this ASAP. At this point because I had to save it to preview in firefox, I know have to reload my video page. Ugghhhh.

Dreamweaver?

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:47:09 +0000

This morning I woke up to add my video to my page and I found that my home, graphics, and contact pages were all misarranged. This was very frustrating because I had to go back and re-slice, add, and arrange my pages. I don’t know why dreamweaver did this but it was not fun.

Cool Texture

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:27:22 +0000

I have changed this website’s desing so many times. I wish however, I would have had the photoshop skills I have now at the beginning of the class. I would have loved to add a cool graphic texture to the background of my site something similar this one that I created in Photoshop.

Uploading video

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:23:21 +0000

I just finished my video project for my JRNL 436 class and am hoping to add it to my video page. However, when I tried to embed it from Vimeo it looked a little funky. I am hoping to sort it out as soon as possible. Below is the link to my vimeo page.

Meet George Lowery

Navigation

vinmedia — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:21:25 +0000

One thing I have always hated is navigation that has a link to the exact page that you are on. You can be browsing a site and be on the homepage and yet there will be a tab for home to take you where you already are. I didn’t want this in my website so i only have the links to the other pages. It seems weird at first when navigating through the pages but I didn’t want navigation that would take the user to the page they were already on. So when navigating the buttons can seem to rearrange themselves. I hope I am not break ing any rules of web desing!

PSD Learning

vinmedia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:28:07 +0000

When it comes to learning how to design in photoshop one of the easiest ways I feel is with tutorials. With a well instructed tutorial it is easy to learn how to blend several different styles, and to use multiple effects and functions of photoshop. For this I found the site PSD Learning to be of much help to my photoshop designing. PSD learning

TutVid

vinmedia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:22:47 +0000

I followed Several tutorials to create my galleries for my photos & graphics pages from Tutvid.com. These Tuts were fairly simple, and easy to understand, even for a newbie. Tutvid, has his own channel on Youtube.com, and his own website as well. He boasts for than just flash tutuorials, with photoshop, dreamweaver, illustrator, and fireworks help all available on his site. TutVid Channel