Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Portfolio Design


Final portfolio design

After experimenting in Photoshop I decided upon my final design for my portfolio website. I chose a sky blue colour for the main content with a grey header and a black footer to create contrast. I decided blue would be the best choice of colour as I feel it is welcoming and relaxing to the user. In this design, I wanted to create a simplistic look to make the site easily accessible and enjoyable to use. As this was the first site I would be working on in this course, I didn't want to complicate any of the features of the layout, I felt the ideas I had for my portfolio were enough to meet the brief to a good standard.

Following the completion of my design, I sliced it up in Photoshop and named the images accordingly. The next process was to view my website in a browser and edit the html and css to make my wesbite accessible and navigable. After each step I included in my code, I previewed my website in each browser to make sure everything was working correctly. In this website I was using a stylesheet within my html code, using an attatched stylesheet is something I would have to do differently in order to create better information architecture.