Abigail Good

Wow. I am so happy with my portfolio. I think that is sleek and really shows my personality, and my aesthetic as a designer.  am really proud of how much I have learned in web design this semester. I know I am a bit off track, but I feel accomplished. My portfolio is not done by any means. I have a few things left on my to do list. I would like to like my O.P.E.N website to my portfolio along with my TV25 website. I also completely forgot to include my manny's Marbles site, which I think could add a lot to my site. I also need to delete/add links to the social media buttons after the contact page. I would say that I am very close to the finish line though. Overall things that I struggled with in this project is the header picture, the colors, and the portfolio photos. The header image took a combination of all of the adobe programs, and some assistance from Ava's photography skills. I needed an image that had a white background. So I set out into the hallway to take som...

TV25 Experience So for the past while we have been working with a local antenna T.V. company called TV25. The CEO is Brian Short. We began by talking with Mr. Short and going over his current website, and all the things he hopes to achieve with this new website. In this meeting I took some very scattered notes that are shown below.  Some of the main things that I gathered from this meeting was that Mr. Short wanted his site to flow very well and be easy to read. This is also made me think of a site that is sleek and modern to show that they are still very technology oriented even though they still use antennas, unlike cable companies. A long with looking at his current website and logo I wanted to find a way to spice up the layout, and add interest for his viewers. He was also very interested in the idea of a carrousel in the home page of his site that was linked to the weather, YouTube, and News. The next step was creating a layout in Illustrator to start to plan where thin...

My made up company is called Manny's Marbles. I had designed a navy blue and orange logo for the company. With tis logo I designed a t-shirt design, billboard design, storefront design, app icon design, and a business card design. I mocked all of them in photoshop to make a realistic representation of what they would look like. Here are all of my designs! 

  When I stated brainstorming about color schemes I instantly thought about the primary colors and maybe some more muted neutrals because those are the main colors in Marbles. to the right are the two color schemes that I like the most and the color combos that I thought looked best within the color schemes. I ended up up choosing the color scheme on the top because I thought it had the most versatility and most practicality. So I was left with these two color combinations and I picked this color combination because I liked how visible it would be on a variety of colors and also how good both of the colors would look with a different tag line color.  I put the orange on top because it drew the viewers eye to Manny first then marble second, which is how  I wanted it to be read.   

These are my newly revised logos. Some of the comments. I received were to try to use the rounded font with the motion concept. I also ha the comment to try and put the marble in different places within my logo. I even tried deleting the marble to see if I could create a bouncing effect without making it too literal. I also though it would make the logo more compact if I was able to somehow stack the fonts or the bouncing stroke. My overall favorite is the circle logo with he tag line in the middle.

I started thinking about the round playful aspect of a marble. Thats how I decided on the soft-edged font that is thick. I molded it to a circle because it showed off the marble aspect. Next I thought of how a marble bounced so I added the motion aspect to my logo. I tried to make the Marble 3D by adding a gleam.

Wordpress.com vs. Wordpress.org Wordpress is a website you can use to make your own websites. This method is supposed to be easier than creating an entire website on your own using something like dreamweaver. However, there are some major difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.  The biggest difference is that in Wordpress.org you run your own site. This is also where you will find the free downloadable Wordpress software. This option does allow the most flexibility with the customization of your site. Sadly, Wordpress.org is more expensive since you are the one hosting and managing your site. These costs start out at around $3-$10 monthly, but as your site gets more traffic the hosting fee will increase. Wordpress.com takes care of all the hosting for you! This site is easy to setup and , most importantly, free! However, they do offer premium upgrades that do cost money. The business package, which is the most expensive, is $24.92 per month. The cheap...

Embedded Maps in Websites A client has reached out to the Web design team to see if we could create a interactive map for his construction company. He would like a map the could zoom in and out along with added pins where he had done work for people. Finally, he said he would like to be able to hover over, or click on the pin to make a tiny box pop up that gives a description of the work that had been done and a review from the customer. He gave the example of  zillow.com as something that he was shooting for ( image to the left). In this case, Zillow had embedded a bing map into their site and had separate codes for the different points. I think that it might be possible that they used the info from people who have accounts to enter in all the addresses. I did some research for other sites that had done something similar. One example would be Walmart.com. In this website they had a find a store near you tab hat had a google map that had been embedded into the site. I coul...

What is one valuable takeaway you learned from each guarantee?   Technology: I can definitely see a growth in my knowledge of the programs used during this course, such as illustrator, indesign, and photoshop. At the beginning of the year I was very timid and uncertain of my skills, partially because I didn't always know the best way to produce my ideas on to the computer. My biggest challenge this year with technology happened during the Brochure section of our most recent project because I had never had to do something so massive in Indesign before , which really scared me. By the end of the project, however, I felt much more comfortable and confident in InDesign. I disliked feeling uncertain of my skills so I decided to push myself by finding tutorials that I thought would help me, such as a cartoon type tutorial that showed me a lot of techniques to manipulate type that I didn't think about before. Learning all of these new techniques helped me create more complex wor...