Week 11

This week was our review week, i came in pretty much everyday to finish any outstanding work. I added sound effects to my website, added animation to my website however i was having some trouble with this and still am.

I wanted to add the midcrophone animation but because i did it in Adobe Photoshop so it was harder to put into Dreamweaver.
I continued my investigations as well and improved them. I also completed my evaluation and stgarted to work on my action plan.

Week 10

This week i looked at finishing my website, I interlinked all the pages and made each button a button. I added links to my images, video and blog online at YouTube, Blogger and Photobucket. I had now nearly finsihed my website, all i neededd was too add in the flash animation however i got very confused with this and was unsure how to do so as i had various animations done in Flash and Photoshop.

I added more to my moodboard and continued on with some unfinished investigations and paperwork. I also recorded my voice doing some voice overs for my website. Words such as Portfolio, Contact, Enter etc which i would like to add to my website if i get the time.

Week 9

This week i had started to load everything into Dreamweaver. I loaded everything up on the programme, and i put everything into the speicific folders (Root, HTML, Images etc). I had sometrouble getting everything to work within the programme as i got slightly stuck and didnt know where to start. After i had some help form my lecturer, looked online and gathered some help from my collegues i began to know what i wasdoing properly. I got all my pages in and it began looking like a proper website.
I also looked at gettting some webspace for when it is ready to be uploaded online.

Week 8

This week i began starting my animation for the "On Air" icon. I created a flashing sequence so it flashes red to black multiple times which i will have in the top left hand corner of my web site. I began thinking about my 3rd and final animation, i wanted to have something regarding a microphone whether it be appearing or dissapearing. i began experimenting and after some time i chose to have a microphone on a stand like in a radio studio, drop down and appear on my main web page.

Week 7

This week i carried on with my website design in Photoshop. I added more pages and also created an animation for the speaker i have on my home page, so when you enter the home page it will have an animation as if the speaker was playing out music. I also added an on air icon at the top of the page, which i plan to make it flicker or go on and off when viewing my website. However i am looking around on Youtube for tutorials on this.

Week 6

This was the week back after the 2/3 week half term that we had.

Over the half term i looked at some flash tutorial websites and on youtube which helped me a lot with some flash techniques. I looked at the site "Wix" which i had used before in making flash websites. It was a great website and was a very professional and clean site to use and i enjoyed playing around with that.

In Harry's lesson i started adding more things about me such as an On Air sign. I started looking at doing some animation, so i made a speaker image on my page vibrate to make it look like it was playing music, i also would like to make a flickering light effect on my On Air sign to make it look professional, although i was having some trouble with this and cannot find any good tutorials.

In Simon's lesson today i carried on with Dreamweaver and looked at some techniques i could use in my website, i began looking at tutorials from YouTube and other sites.

Skills Profile

This is my skills profile for my web design assignment. I will be discussing about what i have learnt over the last month in web designing, and what i feel i have improved on.

I have learnt how to build a basic website using Flash, and Dreamweaver. I had used Dreamweaver in the past however I did not know that much on the programme. I learnt how to make my own font and use that in my website, and also giving them different effects.

• Dreamweaver Skills
• Extended Photoshop skills
• Website building
• Creating animations in Flash

Some things i am still uncertain on and am not 100% sure on is Flash. In the last project i had some difficulties with using it as i didnt fully understand it however i spoke to my lecturers, and also looked at some website tutorials which helped me a lot and got me focused. I feel a lot happier when using flash now though.

Some skills i feel i could improve on are:

• Flash animation
• Extended Dreamweaver techniques