Week 12

This week i have been trying to finish my website, and successfully i have. I have made my website on most of my art pieces that i have produced in the past two years. i have made 6 pages; Home, Life drawing, Painting and drawing, Photography and printing, Animations and Games. With all the pages i have put annotations of all my art work except for my life drawing i didn't. I thought that it was quiet obvious of how i did these pieces.
I found making the website really interesting and fun. There was only one little thing that i struggled to do, and that was changing the background colour in the columns of where the links and my header were. After long hard searching i had come to realise that as i had used a template from dreamweaver it wasn't as easy to change the background colour as it when u construct your own template from scratch.
I had to go to the CSS column (on the right on the program) and find each individual column/name that i wanted to change the colour.
Overall, i really enjoyed making this website. It was really time consuming but i loved it, and i hope you do to.
Thanks for your constant support Stuart. You were a great help.

Week 11

With my publication i have decided to make a book of my trip to europe last year. i have decided just to leave it white as my background colour as i think that there would be too much colour if i had another colour as well as the images. Depending on the places that i went to, will depend on how many pictures i will have. As we went to each island for only a few days there wont be that many pictures, 10 to the most! Overall, i am very happy with my end product. I would have love to print it... maybe sometime in the future. This is one of the pages off my booklet.

Week 10

This week we didn't have class but i stayed home and i started making my website on my artwork. i have produced my 5 pages and linked all all the pages together. Now i just have to put all my images of my art work onto the website and put some colour onto it. over all i am happy with what i have made. i have used the the 2 column hybrid, left sidebar head and footer. this is so i can have my links on the left hand side of my webpage and my images in the centre. Hopefully it will turn out and i want it to.

Week 9

Today in class i continued to make my book. My book that i will be making with be about my trip to Europe that i went to last year. There are going to be 6 different chapters. The different types of chapters that i will have will be Cyprus, Thessaloniki, Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Create and then Cyprus again. Each of these chapters will have photos of where i was and there will be text on the side of each image saying where we were. I think this will be a great end product, it will be my own digital photo album. This is one of the images in my Album/Book.

Week 8

In todays class we talked how important it is to have the right sized image on our website. Stuart told us that the maximum size of the image should be no larger than 50KB for a jpeg image and 72 D.P.I. When we attach an image to our websites they sound be saved as a jpeg. This helps the size of the image to stay small. For us to resize the image we have to use photoshop; file -> save for web and device. Then in this tool you change the type of the image that it is saved and the quality. This will reduce the size of the image. After our lecture with Stuart we stated working on both our websites and our publication. i mostly worked with my publication as i have forgotten most of the things that Stuart taught us is the first couple of weeks and wanted to refesh my memory. After a couple of questions i remembered how to do the main things for my book. I am so excited to finish it and see the end product.

Week 7 - Building a 3 page Website

Today was an interesting day. We were given a sample website with two pages and we were to put in information to do with some sort of recipes. i thought that this was really interesting as it put all my skills to the test and it showed me what i need to work on. This is what i have come up with i think i did quite well as i was feeling sick this morning and came a hour late also.

Week 6 - building and understanding a Website

Today Stuart told us the difference between the two different websites that can be made, linear website and a nodal website.
A Linear website can only go in one direction from going from page (link) to page and it will never change. As for the nodal it can go in any direction, there as no restrictions of where to go.
Even though i have tried to make other websites in other classes before i think that Stuart made it much easier to understand how to construct a website.
The new dreamwever though, i believe, has become a little bit more complicated when it comes to changing the colour of the font on the Website.
Overall, this lesson was really helpful as it will also help me for other classes.
Here is my page that i made today...

Week 5 - Photography

Today we spoke about photography. How to take a good photo ( best time after sunrise and just before sunset) and the best size for the photos to be when they are placed on the Internet and when you are to print it.
I found this interesting as i always thought that using the flash when taking a photo made it look more realistic, but Stuart doesn't think so. He believes that's its better without. I think the reason why i may think that its better with the flash maybe the fact that when i try and take a photo without the flash its always blurry.
Apart from that it maybe better as u get the real colour of the photo depending on what time of day or night it is. I believe that when you are taking a photo at night you definitely a flash. This is my favourite photo that i have taken recently.
Also i have decided to make a book about my trip to Europe that I went to last year. I still have to decide on what size I want to do it. I thinking of doing it the size of our diaries. Not too big and not too small. I will also be using 2 different fonts and make titles to show where i was at at the time on the photos. This will be like a mini album just made electronically.

Week 4 - Books in InDesign

Over the past week i have been trying to complete my CV at home but unfortunately the program didn't download properly and was not able to complete it. I tried to go and do it at Footscray to complete it but they did not have the program there either. Reason.. they don't bloody do Art at Footscray. Would have helped if i knew that. Well thank god for the computers at St Albans as i was able to complete it here today and this was the result of it.
This week in class Stuart showed us how to make a book in InDesign for out final project. this was a very easy progress but yet very confusing to do all the steps. This class was interesting but yet so confusing.

Week 3 - Colourful CV's

Today in class we learnt how to make a colourful CV and also include Images to make it more interesting. As i have never used InDesign i felt as though it was a little hard to keep up but enjoyed it at the same time.
Today I tried my hardest to understand what is required for this class, so Stuart asked me to look up 'Publication'. I looked through the dictionary for a definition and came up with these; 1. The act or process of publishing printing matter. 2. An issue of printing materials offered for sale or distribution. 3. Communication of information for the public.
Now i have a better understanding of Publication and makes it clearer for what is expected of me for the assignment. I think that this class will be very interesting and more fun than anything.

The Digital Publication - Week 1

Today we have just started talking about some different types of mediums used to make different types of art works. What interested me the most was that there are some many different sites that you can go to to help you with everything.
We also watched 'Did you know' on you tube and i believe it was very correct. Our world is a growing with new technologies and it will keep growing. In 20 years there are going to be many more jobs that will for the new technologies and our kids will be bought up into it. Overall, I really enjoyed this class and i think it will be a very interesting class.