Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Website design - ancillary



For our second choice we decided to create a website. Our decision was that I'd create the website and my partner would create the CD cover. So i came up with the idea of using the feet for the star image motif and started collecting drawings for the design of the site. I had the idea come having the banner as the feet and the name of the artist. As i wanted the site to have that simple feel, not too much going on with the colous, buttons and images. I kept i blank white back layer to set a blank canvas for the infomation and images. I have created my first prototype as you can see from this image. In the top left corner theres the image of the feet with 'Ed sheeran' and the name of the album/song that we're doing. Then like most websites there is a bar that has the titles to each main page of the site that usuall includes home, lyrics and clothing. To separate the titles from the main page a bar is usually dividing the two so i kept with the theme of feet and used a shoe lace. In the creation of the site i used two programmes, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver. Photoshop is the editing software that I used to edit the images and create the buttons, basically all the visualls! Then Dreamweaver is the software to bring all the components together into a website structure. The buttons are made easily by duplicating the image but changing the second in my case giving it a faded grey background. Then on Dreamweaver i add a box and make a rollover image. This means when the mouse goes over the image the second appears making it look like a button.

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