questions from week 6

 AS OF WEEK 6 WE WERE SUPPOSE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS/
As a group, I expect you to answer these questions next week:

- What is the mission or general philosophy of this site?
The mission of this site was to actually have a website or community where web designers can actually come to and rely on a network where it is just for them. Alumnus can come through  or current web designers and leave tutorials which will help people who are barely just getting into the web design field. It is a site where people can actually rely on when they don't have anyone to contact or a teacher to email and where they can find answers as well.

- Describe its primary goals, services or products.
Its services are the same like i said above; its tutorials. Tutorials are very helpful for students who are stuck on a project and doesn't seem like they will get out of it, but the SWAP website will help them through. The services are ran from the officers of the SWAP club and which will keep the site updated and maybe alumnus as well can put their two cents in. 

- Is there a tag line or slogan that was incorporated within the general theme?
We don't have a slogan, but dont think we really need one. I feel our message will get across even without one. The site will speak for itself in my opinion. we were slow from the start but put it in gear and its like they say; its not how you start, but on how you finish. I feel we've accomplished that. 

I remember that week, what i did was actually just do the graphics and such, finalizing the logo, and actually helped a little bit with the mockups. 

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I knew I just posted something, but i forgot to put the things that i did learn and the experience i did get from this. I learned TOO MUCH which was the positive thing about this. I never knew on the process web designers would do to start on making a website! starting off with mockups and such. the style guide, i Can go on and on about all this and i knew it will stick with me because i've started doing all these things with the site i am creating. It feels right on doing these things because it is so organized!  Just on having the personas as well shows onw hat the site is intended for as well. helps you out personality wise and helps u keep on track on what you are creating! we went through the struggles through this site, but I know for a FACT we all got something out of this, no matter on what level you are in web design skill wise.

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I know i am far behind in my blogging which isn't quite a surprise but isn't good at the same time; today is our final day in class and at the same time is our presentation for our final project. As the art director, I will have to cover a few things such as the color scheme, typography, logo, and the various graphics of each page. Hopefully all will be good at the end, but I believe we will do a great job with the group that we do have. Through the ups and downs of this group, we did manage to get this far and I wouldn't change this group in my opinion even if i could. we all learned a lot from each other and that is something we can use in a positive way. I was the art director but managed to learn on how to draw up mockups and also do a little bit of technical work which wasn't even in my position, but just shadowing people helped out a lot! Team SWAP did manage to get through and we put our gear up and went in hard for the last couple of weeks, hopefully it was enough to impress the target audience.

blogging

Blogging has been forgotten and is something I should have been doing this whole time. Through this quarter, I've learned many new things which will benefit me in becoming a successful web designer. I even caught things that weren't my position, but will be very useful on how to start a site and such. This whole quarter I have taken the role of being the art director and to be honest I knew I was going to feel lost in being so. It sort of scared me, but not enough to give up on the position so with the help of great group members, I got the hang of it and did the things i was asked to do. First was to come up with the typography and we switched back and fourth with it to see which one we would all agree upon. Caecilia was the first one we switched but went towards podkova later on. will keep blogging on as soon as possible. The style guide is still in progress but is very close to finalizing.

week 04

so i forgot to blog last week but i can see what i have been working on is the typography for the site. I came up a couple of different fonts which i have shared with zach. The choices where Caecilia, frutiger , and bergamo. Baskerville is also another choice. For the graphics is where i was lost with, but zach told me we can meet up to discuss that part because that is where i was pretty lost by. I didn't know on how to begin and start the graphics and logo. Color scheme wise i chose turqouse and white as the color. Maybe gray will be involved as well but I didnt really want to change the colors because i thought those colors were appropriate for the SWAP site.

blog 1- Week 01

class project- build a website with the class

- the example of the previous site is -iGARLIKEit

In Week 1:

we made a google analytics account

Assigned positions for group project

• Technical Director – Reese
• Production Developer – Ross & Kelley
• Content Editor – Anna
• Art Director – Cesar
• Instructional Designer – Anna & Cesar

Homework due on week 02:

Reading chapters 1 & 2of the "Yale Style Guide." creating this blog as well so you can share with class and write down documentations. 

explanation of my position:

I am an Art Director. Im going to be working with the programs illustrator, photoshop, and fireworks. Im also going to be working with Ana and also be sharing ideas with other people in the room to get feedback upon our work. 

Being number 1

To be number 1, You have to have a unique name so things wouldn't be so similar. I would love to have D.O.N as my website domain standing for Dat 1 Nicoya and hopefully it would be unique enough to stand out. Having images and naming them can  help as well. That is pretty much having to  alt them. The usability of the site can also have a big difference. If you have things to download, is it fast enough to be on there computer. Pretty much as long as the user has a great experience with your site, they will come back and your site will have a good word for it.

Being number 1

To be number 1, You have to have a unique name so things wouldn't be so similar. I would love to have D.O.N as my website domain standing for Dat 1 Nicoya and hopefully it would be unique enough to stand out. Having images and naming them can  help as well. That is pretty much having to  alt them. The usability of the site can also have a big difference. If you have things to download, is it fast enough to be on there computer. Pretty much as long as the user has a great experience with your site, they will come back and your site will have a good word for it.

CH.4 assignment

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>floating</title>

</head>
<style>
#sweden {
float: left;
width: 300px;
padding: 10px 0;
border: 2px solid #C8CDD2;
}
#sweden dl {
float: left;
width: 260px;
margin: 10px 20px;
padding: 0;
display: inline; /* fixes IE/ WIn double margin bug */

}
#sweden dt {
float: right;
width: 162px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 130%;
letter-spacing: 1px;
color: #627081;
}
#sweden dd {
margin: 0 0 0 98px;
padding: 0;
font-size: 85%;
line-height: 1.5em;
color:#666;
}
#sweden dl dd.img {
margin: 0;
}
#sweden dd.img img {
float: left;
margin: 0 8px 0 0;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #D9E0E6;
border-bottom-color: #C8CDD2;
border-right-color: #C8CDD2;
background: #fff;
}
/* reverse float */
#sweden .alt dt {
float: left;
}
#sweden .alt dd {
margin: 0 98px 0 0;
}
#sweden .alt dd.img img {
float: right;
margin: 0 0 0 8px;
}
</style>


<body>

<div id="sweden">
<dl>
    <dt>Purple</dt>
    <dd class="img"><img src="purple.jpg" width="80" height="80" alt="Purple" /></dd>
    <dd> Royal color </dd>
    </dl>
    <dl class="alt">
    <dt> Gray</dt>
    <dd class="img"><img src="gray.jpg" width="80" height="80" alt="Gamla Uppsala" /></dd>
    <dd> Cool color</dd>
    </dl>
    <dl>
    <dt> Teal</dt>
    <dd class="img"><img src="teal.jpg" width="80" height="80" alt="Teal" /></dd>
    <dd> Cute color </dd>
    </dl>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

chapter 1 of the book!

Was kind of confused on what to do with the webpage and Don't know why some things aren't functioning  in the coding, but for the most part took away most divs and created it in a different style. The collapse tab isn't working for some reason but makes the page look neater than it does right now.

cesar237.aisites.com/intro_web/webfix.html

chapter 1 of the book!

create the  stylesheet using Ems  on pg 22 and Read Chapter 1 of Bulletproof Web Design  book

Kind of late, but better late than never. Linked css stylesheet to random page to test the different font sizes!

2nd hw assignment

pantone #1 : 17 aec0  R: 23 G: 174  B: 172

pantone#2 : #ffffff R:255 G: 255 B: 255

pantone#3 : #000000  R:0  G:0  B:0

1st hw assignment. 2nd idea

for my 2nd idea, i wanted to make the advertising sign at the very front of the webpage with that being the navigation bar. it would keep changing from what the contact would be and if you click on it all the options would pop open. cars would be in the background and the sky will be turning from day to night with the buildings as well and bridge in the background

week 01- HW assignment

This is my first idea  and I've decided to have a world orbiting in space with a couple things on the globe representing myself. Flash would be a big part of this, by having things move and be shining such as the stars throughout the whole time. The arrow I believe should be a little spaceship orbiting around space while when it goes inside earth it changes to an airplane b/c its getting closer to the planet. The bridge will be shining with the bright gold and a pay phone will be also located in the city which isn't in the photo. That will represent my contact information and if you go to the other side of the globe, Nicaragua will represent my about me section. many places are still missing, but this is just a start.