Recently I set up a Domain name and host from Digital Pacific. Coming up with a name took a bit of time and some research, but in the end I picked "Logical stream" as my Domain name. Now I'm waiting for everything to process through, then my site can go online.
I also went into each of my pages and did some tweaking with the div box tag which wasn't in the correct position. In fact in kept changing on me, so I made the box transparent and fixed up how far the box goes down the page. Hopefully this fixes the issues I had, with it moving around.
Now for my overall evaluation of this project. In the beginning I started off with limited knowledge of web development especially CSS. This became apparent when working through a tutorial on building a drop down menu, where nothing appeared on the page. After gaining some more skills, I found out the problem was very easily fixed, as I only needed to close the style sheet code.
The program I've been using to construct my site is Adobe Dreamweaver. The things I enjoy about this program is being able to work with the code, which is a necessity in regards to this.
In the early stages I mainly focused on the design, which I had the most problems. I did however research other animation portfolios and made a mood board for inspiration purposes. This proved useful especially during the later stages where I still wasn't satisfied with a design layout. I managed to overcome this thanks to my friend, James from animation who is currently studying Web Development. He pointed out many issues I needed to fix, which resulted in going back a few steps. I redid the earlier layout draft to how it should be and made a design layout I was slightly more comfortable with. I believe I still need more refining and will continue doing so as I gain more skills.
James also gave me some information on CSS, that was done wonders for me with constructing my site.
The design itself mainly focuses on one of my favorite projects, "A Lone Scar". This project is about cats and I decided to incorporate one of the concept images into the main design layout. I've noticed a few other portfolio sites also feature a character or two in the main design.
The pages of my website contain the following:
Index: This is the home page, where a link above the footer navigates you back to.
About: Personal information about myself including o my past education at CSU studying animation.
Contact: My main email address is only featured on here.
Show reel: This is complete and contains my show reel made in Felicity's classes as part of our final assessment.
Gallery: This is still under construction but does feature some images.
Now the reason why my navigation bar has extra space is for the additional pages coming soon. This will include a game development page, 2D animation and 3D animation page. This will include a lot of in progress work and some of my animation projects. One thing I discovered from a tut is how to export out a clip for web which would be a flash file, which Dream weaver does accept.
Overall I enjoyed this project the more it progressed, especially when I started focusing on the coding during the site construction. Unfortunately I did lose some time during the break where I had a lot of work and less time to focus on my studies. I did overcome this time issue and kept working on getting a site up and running. I do regret not having to online by now but I can still demonstrate the progress and website pages.
Very soon it will be online and now it's just a waiting game, but in the mean time I can tweak and refine what have so far.
This site does have issues still in regards to the box div. This is a current issue and something that needs to be fixed soon, before it goes live. The last thing I want is for the contents to be all over the place when someone clicks on each page. At first I thought it was the position being set to absolute but when I changed it to fixed, the box went all over the place. Now I'm staying on absolute but will do some more research for solutions on google.
I can now say that thanks to this project, I enjoy web development a whole lot more and have made some progress since my days at university.
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