Online Portfolio Update & ISTD

MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009

I spent today tidying up the design of my website, and the navigation. I know how I want the site to work, I was just struggling to settle on names for categorising my menu sections. With this all now settled, I can start building my site!

As mentioned in a previous blog, James McMorrow posted a link to some Dreamweaver tutorials by Will Goldstone. I went through these this evening as I thought they would be a useful reminder for me! Especially for the random little do's and don'ts, such as certain coding rules that you need to learn and things that you just have to do for your website to work. The tutorials were brilliant!! They helped so much. Its the basics and a little bit more. The rest of it is down to design and general rejigging. A lot of it was to do with having editable body text for each page, which isn't relevant for my site as I am going to load my buttons and small amounts of text as images in order to allow me to use my chosen font which isn't websafe. I have experimented with using a websafe font such as Helvetica, but it takes away from my design and so I am going about it in this way. I had a chat with Neil and he confirmed for me that the 'images' I load up for my buttons won't cause any problems such as slow loading of my site. So, with all this is mind, and those reminder tutorials under my belt, its all systems go!

Tomorrow afternoon I am photographing some of my work, as there are certain pieces that I would prefer to be on the site as photos, rather than the actual document. I also need to photograph my greetings cards and my hand made book.


I am also in contact with Rob Farrelly. Since the email he sent me after I blogged his site we have exchanged a few emails. It is interesting to hear about the course he did and how he found it, also what he is doing now he has graduated!

This weekend I am going to dedicate some time to ISTD. This has taken a bit of a back seat while I sorted out my website, but now this is ready to be built, I can do that, and then take breaks and concentrate on ISTD. I have been regularly researching and recording information since the last blog post about it. It is nearly in the stages of design now. I got some interested data at the weekend as I went to London with George, Luke, Lauren and Lewis. I did some people watching on the train and got a few interesting chunks of info that I can use! I am now getting more excited about his as the data I have collected grows!