It seemed like a lot longer than three weeks had passed by the time it came to Wednesday morning. We were given a lecture on the CD cover designs and then had a general question and answer session.
In the afternoon I continued to work on the style guide I hoped to get that finished this week. I designed everything in Pagemaker but to get a good quality image I designed the letterhead and continuation sheet in Photoshop also. Wednesday was a productive day for me and I was able to get everything I wanted to be done by the end of the day. On the night Steve emailed us all with a question about if we wanted to know the groups we would be in next year. I told Steve I wasn’t really concerned either way because I will be busy over the summer. I don’t mind who I work with for the group assignment I think everyone works hard in the group, obviously some have more knowledge on the subject through experience than others but were are all trying to achieve the same goal on the course, so I think some people will have to raise there game (especially me) for that task. But I see this as a good thing.
Thursday I spent creating a email template and touches to the business cards and letterhead. In the afternoon I got some good feedback from Steve, Craig and Julian about the look of my site. The main one was the use of the links on the left, if you were on a specific page away from the homepage a user would not know which link was for each page. This means poor usability and I want to keep the site simple and easy to use so I made those changes in the afternoon. Also in the feedback I found out that one of the album covers I had been looking at for inspiration was a particularly good one. It is an album by Prodigy called, “The Fat Of The Land”. I bought this album nearly 10years ago and its given me an excuse to annoy the neighbours with it all over again.
In the afternoon I continued to work on the style guide I hoped to get that finished this week. I designed everything in Pagemaker but to get a good quality image I designed the letterhead and continuation sheet in Photoshop also. Wednesday was a productive day for me and I was able to get everything I wanted to be done by the end of the day. On the night Steve emailed us all with a question about if we wanted to know the groups we would be in next year. I told Steve I wasn’t really concerned either way because I will be busy over the summer. I don’t mind who I work with for the group assignment I think everyone works hard in the group, obviously some have more knowledge on the subject through experience than others but were are all trying to achieve the same goal on the course, so I think some people will have to raise there game (especially me) for that task. But I see this as a good thing.
Thursday I spent creating a email template and touches to the business cards and letterhead. In the afternoon I got some good feedback from Steve, Craig and Julian about the look of my site. The main one was the use of the links on the left, if you were on a specific page away from the homepage a user would not know which link was for each page. This means poor usability and I want to keep the site simple and easy to use so I made those changes in the afternoon. Also in the feedback I found out that one of the album covers I had been looking at for inspiration was a particularly good one. It is an album by Prodigy called, “The Fat Of The Land”. I bought this album nearly 10years ago and its given me an excuse to annoy the neighbours with it all over again.
After the feedback I was able to show Steve my referral work for the Back 2 Basics assignment. I was nervous about this because I honestly thought when I handed the assignment in the first time that I had finished it probably and that I could achieve a pass grade at least. Steve seemed fairly pleased with the new look if the site however so I was pleased with that. He also game me some feedback about adding information to the bottom of the site so I added this to my current work in the style guide. It does make the site look more professional.
http://www.richardfoley.co.uk/Style_Guide/index.html
I still need a press release but I am going to do this after I have the CD cover designs digitised. Over the next week I will be developing my CD ideas and hopefully creating something that looks professional and suits the target audience.
I still need a press release but I am going to do this after I have the CD cover designs digitised. Over the next week I will be developing my CD ideas and hopefully creating something that looks professional and suits the target audience.
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The link's at the bottom of the page make the site look more professional. I also like how you have added the corporation sign aswell. I still think the blue hits you when you open thwe website, but there's no point changing it as It's probably just me that is going against it. Maybe you could try to tint it down?
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