Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Weaving a Website!

I really enjoyed putting together my website and I was so excited to share my art with my classmates that I exceeded the size limit! Oh no! I managed to par it down with the help of my excellent art critic friend, Kendra, thank goodness! The only problem was that the system wouldn't let me publish my website alone, and I couldn't get it to publish without the home directory! Oh well, I learned a lot and I was so excited to see my classmates' websites as well, what a talented class I'm in! I especially enjoyed Natalie's and Katie's websites. Natalie's was so informative and incredibly detailed, I feel like I've learned so much about her! She spent a lot of time on her site, and it definitely paid off! Katie's site was enjoyable and I loved her pages! I especially liked how her text in her navigation bar tilted diagonally to give it a funky and cute but professional looking style, way to go! I feel that by learning from my own experiences and looking through my classmate's websites I will be ready in the future to tackle any website that comes my way!!!
Would you like to see my website? Click here!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Boo-tiful Ballroom


I really enjoyed Stephanie Hill's presentation over homelessness. Her presentation was informative and very emotionally touching while also being clean and streamlined. I was also really impressed with her transitions on each slide!
On a different note, I had a lot of fun creating my own pictures that lie! for mine, I looked up the ballroom in a hotel and pictures of dancing couples from the 20's. By creating layers and cutting out the background in the photo of the couples and making them transparent, while also editing the ballroom to make it look more subdued, I came up with this result! Hope you enjoy it!