Week 12: Final

Today I showed Jack my webpage and he gave me some advices, I did change some video link part and make all the company name links to their website. Please feel free to view my webpage give some comments on it, Thanks.

My Website

Webpage concept:

Ideas and Layout
I get the idea of my webpage design from a picture I saw online, which is a guy holding a notepad and show what he wrote on the notepad. I slightly change the idea by creating a paper in front and put all the content within the paper, I taken a picture of a paper and taken a picture of myself edited in photoshop to create a background image,.

Colour
I decided to use 4 colours for this webpage, which are green, white, grey and black because I do not like to have too many colours on webpage that might cause people hard to read the content inside.

HTML/CSS
I have tried 2 ways for my web, instead of just using table html, I tried to use CSS code to create blocks because it would be much flexible to put my content in there while using table is such a hard time to adjust the pictures and words in right place. I enquired from IT student about ways of using CSS and how to make my webpage looks nicer, he guided me for a few days and given me many information about basic CSS. I would really like to try flash on my web, but my friend says that it is way to hard to combine all together, he told me that mostly people who uses flash will go all the way with flash in the webpage.

Content
I grabbed all my previous production includes my own and some company I worked for to put it in my website. I put all the videos in premiere pro and re-export it in .flv file to keep a small file size. For pictures, I decided to use flickr and embed in my webpage, I uploaded all my pictures to an album and it would automatically arranged a slideshow and code for me to copy into my webpage.

Challenges
There are many challenges I faced while working on this webpage design, for example I couldn’t find a right way to put up all my video in a page, I did a long way to put up all my videos by creating more than 10 html pages just for videos, it used up much time of mine. I did a mistake and found out when uploaded in cyberduck, I accidentally put capital letter for one of my html and become error while clicking on it. A slight change makes it perfect.


Finally, thanks Jack for his guidance in these few weeks, learnt a lot from him and wishes all the best to all students!

Cheers.
Isaac