Assignment 5: Homepage Design

When creating my website pages, I wanted to use the criticism from my classmates to make it a little less boring.  In my head, I wanted to create a clean website that was easy to navigate, because these are the types of websites that I like and that I feel most people find appealing.  So More >

This week’s reading and lecture dealt with design for international users. Having never been off this continent until I went to Europe last June, I quickly realized not everything is done like we do here in good old Connecticut. Language even in England, where the similarities aren’t even that different, have many differences More >

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For this first animation, I wanted to have  little fun and make my picture from my homepage spin around.  I have the .jif scheduled to spin three times, so click the link to view the animation more than once..  Hopefully this animation will make my page seem a little more fun.

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This second animation would be More >

1.  EagleEyeDon
These two homepage designs for a music group in Connecticut are very unique.  I like how EagelEyeDon broke away from a typical website of boxes and made it more visually pleasing.  In the first design, the pictures are morphed in a cool way that it definitely gives the page some depth.  My favorite is More >

1. Me, Myself, and Blog
Great use of the background image and turning the opacity down to give it a cool effect.  Also the gradient tool worked well to tone it down towards the bottom of the image, but also maintain the brightness.  I lived in Providence last year so I know exactly where that is.  More >

For my website design, I wanted something that was clean and aesthetically pleasing.  A website that has design resembling what I am trying to accomplish is Etsy Blog.  My blog is going to be geared towards sports, but I would still like to have this feel to my homepage when users log in.  First off, More >

For my movie poster, I fist wanted to create some test at the top of the poster.  For this I used the words “CUTE. LOVABLE. DEADLY.”  I changed the word deadly to a deep red to add some character.  I then clicked command and clicked the layer to select the words, and after rasterizing the More >

For my business card, I first took a picture of a baseball I had laying around in my garage.  I pasted it onto my canvas and enlarged it so that it filled up the canvas, and then dropped down the opacity to give it a cool effect.  Using the ellipse tool I drew a circle More >

For Assignment 4B, I chose to depict the word “giraffe.”  First, I had to make a path with the pen tool that resembled the neck and head of a giraffe.  I then chose the text tool and chose a point on my path to begin typing.  I picked a font that I thought resembled something More >

First I needed some text.  I went to loremipsum.com and got some random text, and pasted it onto the canvas.  I then changed the scale to make the font bigger and also helped with the tracking, allowing more space between the letters.  Next, I took a photo of myself and my friends from a wedding More >