A3 and A4 assignment has made the basis of this week's activities and this has called for yet more research. This week I have researching internet surfers of the over 50's variety due to this being the target audience for the web plan in the A3 assignment.
This time the web plan seems to be a lot more straightforward as there are many 'trivial' things from the first web plan that are not required. Although I do feel that this web plan will be more of a challenge as I will have think very carefully about the design as I will have to build the website for the next assignment.
The main area of this that concerns me is the size of the webpages and the included images and how I am going to ensure that I keep it within the projects I am going to set. This is something I am feeling more confident with due to the fact that the A4 assignment contains the image compression task.
Image compression formed the basis of Tuesday's morning lecture and Steve went into detail about all the different types of file formats and the compression formats that can be used. Although I already had a basic knowledge of this due to some previous experience with Photoshop I had previously never gone into this level of detail before.
Following on from this presentation I spend about an hour looking at the effects of different sets of image formats and their compression settings. This will help to illustrate what image format should be used for different types of images such as: logos, photos. I have also been testing the quality of an image against its file size in pursuit of the ultimate balance between the two.
We also had a presentation on colour schemes and I found this very useful as I never new that there where so many different types of colour themes and how they can be used to create a specific effect on a webpage.
Main targets for next week are:
- To accurate a record of my time on time sheets
- To complete task 2 of A4 assignment
- Place at least four blog comments before the comment deadline of midnight on Friday
- Complete target goals for A3 assignment
- Check and reply to any emails sent by Steve
- Find inspirational work to put in my sketchbook
7 comments:
I too never knew how many different colour schemes there were and I didn’t know which type of colour scheme I should use.
I'm so glad we've had the colour scheme lecture now. I was just talking to Steve the other day about my problems I seem to have with colour. I always struggle to incorporate colours into my designs. Having now received a new look into colour schemes, I think I'll be in a better position to use colour more effectively in my work.
I found the Image compression lecture good, as I had not experience with Image compression or Photoshop before, so I was impressed with how you can compress the images using Photoshop. I also thought it was good that you could view the compressed image and the original image next to each other which I am finding this very useful.
I also think that this web plan will also be a challenge as we have to edit some items out of this plan which could be tricky.
I also found the lecture on Image compression very detailed. But since I had never done it I thought it was vital to know how to do it effectively, as it will be a big part of our business.
Before the colour and compression lectures I didn't realise the depth that designers have to go into when designing a website. When designing the site for A2, the colour wheel and compression weren't thought about at all.
A3 will be a good chance for us to implement the new information that we have at hand and how to use it properly.
I found the image compression presentation usefull to. As ive never looked at making file sizes smaller. But I think every one has a better understanding of this now so it will help us write are new essay.
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