Another final website post

Yes, another final post....I took the class's advice and took out the 'personal' and 'school' links and put all photos on one page so it's a little easier to navigate. I also stuck some buttons at the top of the images on the artwork page so you can advance from the top or bottom of the image. I don't know, I may take that out, not sure. I also would like to find other buttons, but honestly I was more concerned with changing all the pages over and enlarging the border around the images, as well as adding a few images and correcting problems. Stay tuned for updates!

Final site post

Ahhh! I can't believe I forgot to do this! My brains are mush right about now, got out of bed because I remembered I hadn't posted my site....Well, she's up and running great. Site is http://ramsites.net/~cassadaml. Yeah, it's boring but I had a terrible time getting set up, I'll rename it later. But hey- it works!
I'm not going to say it was easy, because it's not. If you don't do .html often, it's a bit hard to get ahold of, especially for those of us who are better at drawing a website with pencils and/or crayons, than actually building one. It's tedious work, which I do like, but it's tedious like doing taxes tedious, which is not so great. The difference is however, if you're an instant-gratification kinda person, you're gonna see your .html results a whole lot quicker than your tax return...

Here's the header background for the top of my pages. I made this image a jpeg and will be able to carry it through the site on the other linked pages...It's an image of chimes made of those really thin shells you see at the beach all the time, (Dana probably knows the name of them), but I pulled them into photoshop and added color, burn tool to darken the dark background, and filters.

webpage update....

Whoops, I uploaded them in different areas so they're a little far apart, but you can get the idea. I have a green font and a white because when you pull the cursor over the button, the text will turn white, so you know which one you are selecting. To do this, you have to have a button in each color because it's one image on top of another....

Ok, the background image is set. What I am in the process of doing now is making my header image which will be my name with an underline my name going width-wise across the screen.
I wanted my name to be an image because the regular run of the mill fonts and size bore me. I would like my name to look like a signature, so I'll be using my tablet also. Going along the left side will be my link buttons, yes, I had to change my original idea of the links being blobs along the bottom for a few reasons. First, because I would loose those link images when a linked page opened up to let's say, display images of artwork. It just makes more sense to have the links off to the side in the same place on each page so as to provide a continuity and ease of browsing through the site. Secondly, I would have to get into image maps, which honestly scares me a little, (having to figure out at what exact location each image is in html to show where the link would take you). Eeeek!
As far as the header image goes, I scanned some shell chimes I had and have altered them in photoshop, then will play with the color so text will be a little easier to see on it. I've made a webpage folder that has all of my images for the webpage in it so I don't have to go and hunt down my images from documents, desktop, etc....

Proj 4 update....

Well, I think I've got it narrowed down to two template options (after much ado). I had actually thought of scanning in some fabric as a background before it was brought up in class on the 28th. I love Betsy's burlap, and while I had considered burlap because I love texture, it is a distant second compared to the fabric I actually forgot I had from a few years ago, an earth-toned light-weight rayon with different feathers all over it. While it's beautiful, I'm not quite sure how it will scan. I worry it may be too transparent to get the effect I want.
My second option is Amanda's very clever idea of using a pinhole image like the ones from my third project. I'm sooooo into the template and for some reason stuck on making it strictly from photoshop or illustrator, I didn't even consider that as an option! But it's a good one! I'm in the process of making a new 'camera' from something larger, I've got a shoe box I'm tinkering with because the Pringles can image is way too small to enlarge to a background. I had even thought of using color in the image- all images will come out black and white, which is great. However I am a color and texture person, so I considered enhancing some of the image with color in photoshop. Even if making the button links in color while the rest is b&w....hmmm, at least I've got it narrowed down some. I'll post images in next day or so!