we r done!

thank goodness we r done... sadly the site never got the images we wanted bc our client was to busy, but the layout and place holders are there


have a good holiday season everyone... one semester left

alpha testing

so here's some issues we need to fix on our site:
-when you turn java script off the home page slide show stacks downward
-need to add an active state in the sub menus to help user see what page there on
- we cant realy change the menu size but we do have a pdf of the menu thats larger that were going to add as a link
-still working on a background solution
-site is huge in 800x600 but we cant seen to win In every size, we need to make some sacrifices

:and so we keep working

come on...errr

so our client runs the place mostly by himself...the problem with that is
"ya ill get you some pic"-bill
"hey (a week later) was hoping to pick up those pic's"-me
"OH CRAP, sorry i forgot I'm so busy"-bill
"OK well we only have until the 29th max to get them in the site"-me
"OK OK that's perfect ill call you sat with the pic's"- bill

so i still haven't hear from him and I'm having doubts about them magically appearing Mon,
 so were prob going to have to talk to Phil about keeping the place holder images we took of him making pasta in the slide show due to the lack of content we are getting from the client..hum. it kinda changes our look we were going for but what can you do.

-bummed-

Beta testing

so we started beta testing yesterday and we found some boo boos, we had some cap letters in our code and we used center in our html instead of our css, so after we fixed that....it happened

explorer broke our site.. and made it its B-och

after freaking out and going through our code searching for an error our awesome professor asked if we saved our images as RGB and sure enough i saved it as CMYK, so after we converted it everything was peachy...

we still need to adjust a few thing and are waiting on pic STILL from our client but over all its all coming together

fixed it...almost

So we have solved our background issue...kinda

our group "with the help of our Bulgarian friend ; P", discover photo merge in photoshop which allowed our to combine 12 bad images to make one complete one. So, we used this image and were cutting it our, color correcting it and putting it on a background so that across browsers our background image doesn't repeat or look funny

yay team work

Vote on a background image

so our group is trying to solve the background image issue of... when the window is stretched we should have another image behind it. So because our original images aren't backed up enough to do this which solution do u like...
A- the original image with wood cutting board behind

or

B- a new image that's not cropped with a marble background

!!!keep in mind whats in the white outline is what would pop up originally, you would only see the rest if you were to stretch the window larger

Fixing a few thingypograp

Yay! we passed our proposal for the site and have generic coding done so now er have to fix all of our issues.

First we must battle with the client in order to change font and whether we are using Bella Cuisina in the title.

Also, we want to lose the grapes... we will see what bill says.

We need to figure our the sizing on our background image and possibly make a div to hope the whole thing.

Next we need to add a 15-20% transparency behind the typography, to help legibility.

we will just keep working... and keep u posted ; )

404 idea....

I started thinking about our 404 page, and how to connect it to our themes of the previous pages and i came up with something like this...


Other than that were meeting on Sunday to have a coding party! Hopefully we will made some of our final decisions and be ready for our proposal on Tuesday ; )

OMG i love it when my brain works

So I had a hurricane of ideas today and i went nuts trying to make it happen.. i envisioned my page and went to the Italian market to make it happen -> then a photo shoot ->then used the ingredients i bought to make yummy pizza - > then tossed the image into photoshop to see what i would roughly look like

so i know the photo and assets need a lot of tweaking but i love the layout and I'm still talking to my partners hoping they love it too

PS this made me ten times more excited about this project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the white box would be a slide show of dishes... hopefully- we are still waiting for promised photo CD

working out the site flow...

we are trying to work out the flow of our site, the biggest problem we might run into is the iframes acting up in window's web browsers; so we are still doing some research and testing on that. The biggest thing that is holding us back in the production of the site is the owner. He hasn't been able to pass on the cd of images yet thus we are not sure what we have to work with. We might have some awesome shots that will serve as a great background or we will have some bad shots that require us to go to the show and take photos ourselves.


... until next time

passing out jobs...

Design team-

Project manager: Christie

Information Architect: Josh

Assets Manager: Angelica

Job reasonability’s:

Project manager- Christie will be responsible for communicating with both Phil and the Client. She is also responsible for all of the  “write ups”, such as the creative brief and double-checking the assets list. The project manager will also assist in the coding, planning out the design of the site, and mapping out the site diagram. Lastly the project manager will make sure jobs are passed out evenly/fairly and maintain a deadline schedule making sure everything gets done.

Information architect- Josh will be our coding mastermind! He will be collecting all the information and using the assets to put together this site. He will also be responsible for making the site across browser compatible, including a 404 page. He is also responsible for the site diagram and site navigation.

Assets Manager- Angelica is mainly responsible for the material that will be going into the website such as the text/ and menus, and most importantly the images. The main reason the current site isn’t attractive because of the uses of the images, thus making the assets manager very important.

I think we have a great group we all gave a variety of strengths and we'll get a lot done. Next step is to create our creative brief and site diagram figuring out the navigation to match what the client wants.

good luck to all of my classmates in finding clients ; )

starting ideas

so i really wish i could redo their logo but seeing as its on their menu and biz card we have to keep it....but who says we cant try to vector it better for the web site.

So the plan is that when we have to use it on the site we wither vector better grapes and vines or bc the client has promised a cd of images we can photograph some grape bundles and incorporate them that way, who knows... for now were doing research looking at restaurants that are popular like olive garden and macaroni grill and seeing what they do that successful and how they accomplished their rustic style as inspiration

as for the layout were thinking  the site will be 5 pages: menu,catering menu, contact, experience/stories, and a 404pg

NEW PROJECT- site redesign

Site Redesign is our final at school and we chose a local Italian restaurant in down town St Pete called Moscatos Bella Cucina. the curent site was made by the owners wife by placing images and text into a template http://www.moscatosbellacucina.com/

The client wants to show off three things:
1. his menu
2. their huge catering menu
3. and a section/page dedicated to their reviews and experience

there looking to attract local and keep the Italian rustic theme with their grape on a vine logo. The client also has stated that he has a cd full of images of his food and kitchen so hopefully we can use these to redesign the look and feel of the current site ; )

check them out on 230 4th st n st pete 33701

oh ya and my awesome team members are josh and angelica

Finnaly posted my website for angela but noth without a fight!

So, Light box wasn't that hard and i created separate files for the descriptions as i posed earlier but i was still having some issues with some image background movement across browsers....well good new i trouble shooted with some classmates until Phil pointed out i forgot to close a div or i didn't realize that my background image size was typed in wrong. Its funny how after hours of coding you can finish the complicated things and its a silly little error throws you off.

Other good new was that yes all my pages were validated but i has some warnings that Josh showed me how to clear up. So now all of my pages are completely passed ; )

One of my last issues that was worked out was that my 404 page wasn't linking to my css for some odd reason when all my coding looked correct... so what did i do? I put it through the w3Validator to find that you cant start a div id with a number. Silly me. So after this id change everything was golden. I hit some bumps trying to upload my page but with some help from some classmates my fingers crossed it worked.

check it out-

http://aself.myweb.usf.edu/index.html

Getting there...

Yay! all my pages are validated but im still working on some weird movements across browsers. Tonight I got the light boxes on Angelas portfolio page to work ; ) thanks to so help from my classmate CHRIS!

My 404 page is almost donr i just need to make a link back to home ; )

my light box is of description of the work...

Alot of progress!

Hey everyone, so I got the iframe's to work and Phil even helped me understand it enough that I was able to help a classmate, Yay Cristina! Anyway my site is coming together Im just waiting on a little bit more content. my next step is to figure out light a light box in order to include a description on each work without cluttering the page. The idea is that the work will be scrollable and if you wanted to know more you would just need to click on the image and a light box will give you the description. I also want to thank all my classmates that have been helping me, because I know i always have a million questions ; ).

changes in progress

Now after i have started coding, I started to make some changes and playing with sizes so far there are 5 links: about me, portfolio, photography, contact, and resume. The home page box sizes have changed to 980px by 680px as the solid frame that stay's the same through the navigation and the content box that changes will be 770px by 471px. Right now in trying to figure out how to link the nav tabs to change only the content box. I am also researching how to do light box as well as a slide show for images... But until then I'm just waiting on the content from my client, which i should get tomorrow, so ill keep everyone posted when i make more progress.

pre-layout sketch

Web- HTML coding at USF

Hello, I am making a web site for my classmate as an assignment for my Internet Class in the Graphic Design Program at USF. Angela Wants a simple Page with unique photos featuring her work and her style.

The page will have one frame with a banner that stays in view and stationary throughout the viewers experience. The banner will contain a photo that Angela takes of work hanging on a clothesline. I in turn, will add text Navigation tabs to the work allowing the user to click on them to navigate the page to the desired location. The body will have a vertical scroll containing all their information; gallery, about me, contact info, etc. And lastly a footer but we have yet decided if the footer will be stationary with the rest of the page or if it will be located at the bottom of the scrolling body.

In this process i will look up how to add nice features such as light box's and slide show box's for the gallery, so let me know if you have any good tutorials that might help ; )

Angela will be graduating in the spring and this site is suppose to help her make connections with potential clients and open many new opportunities...