Home Page Development

ok, a lot of tweeking here and there has been done to get what I have at the moment, I have made the background darker with a nice texture, I have also included an image of myelf (which I hated doing) but I think it will enefit from having an image of me on there - makes it more personal.

I think I have an obsession with texture that is like old coffee stained paper - no idea why. I have included a box textured like this for my introduction to the site. At first it was too light so I darkened it down a bit to better suite the overall design of the page. I then wanted to write on it myself to keep it more personal but as my skills with the digital pen leave a lot to be desired (it looked like a 5 year old had wrote it) I opted to use the font that is in the header which will help keep a little consistancy.

I'm really liking it at the mo - what do you think?

Development of design

I have made the design darker and used a better texture - i'm linking it! Due to some feedback I was given i'm going to play around with the font of "web design" in the header.

My Portfolio Website

Its about time that I start to think about getting my own portfolio website up and running now that I have bought my own webspace (www.skirky.co.uk) and I am starting to produce work that I am happy to display online. I am starting to put together some designs for this. My first is concentrated around my favourite colour brown and other objects that I use when designing such as pencil and paper - keep it simple, keep it clean. I want to get across a kind of sketchy feel which displays my thought process and my design process.

This is what I have so far which I am really happy with. Hopefully this will develop onto even better design ideas for my website.

In this I am keeping a consistant colour (although I might still play around with the tone of that background brown) Within the header I have used my own hand to write my name instead of a font, which keeps it personal, on top of a graded image of one of my own paintings.

Lambley Riding Club - Group Project

From this post any work related items will be posted onto our group blogger:

http://lambleyridingclubwebsite.blogspot.com/

PHP login and News Feed

I have included a PHP news feed for the About section of the website so that the client can regularly post what he is up to with his photography. There are just a few bugs to work out but it works really well.

This is accessed via a link in the index page called "Admin"

The user logs in with account details that are stored in the myadminphp database.

Here they can see older posts and type up a new post for the website.

The posts are displayed in the 'About' section in the style of a newspaper.

I would like to develop this so that there is a Delete and Edit function on the posts for the client and I would look at displaying the posts a little differently to make it look more like a newspaper.

About me Page

After quite a while of aligning the image left and then to the right and then back to the left over and over again I FINALLY decided on the right : )

So here is the About page with a nice little flash element to the page title too (the letters move and change colour slightly on mouse over)

Image Galleries

Finished all the flash image galleries, they look great. There is an image gallery for every category, this is how they look.

Photo Gallery by ~xsamkirkx on deviantART

SWF file background sorted

 

This is what my swf file looked like when I inserted it into my html document, howerver I need the background to be transparent.

Daryl helped me with this just now and i've sorted it

Looks great and works great! just need to figure out how to make the images link with my site (I know a man who can)

Twitter Icon

Not sure which Twitter Icon to choose from, I'll ask around and see what other people think

Development of Website

I have placed my navigation bar and logo and also added the twitter button to it also which will link to the client's twitter page.