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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 things are going to end up going. Honestly, I struggled a lot in this process. I was flat out of ideas. Once I finally got rolling I just took things one step at a time. I knew that I wanted to have a table format for all the channel links. I wanted to do this because it highlighted the number of channels hat TV25 offers that most people don't realize. I also experimented with maybe a more muted red just so that way it was not as overwhelming to the eyes, but sadly he was not open to toning down his color scheme. The last thing that I knew I wanted to be in his final site was his contact info in the footer. I always thought that that was a nice way to end the page of a website. My final wire frame for the TV25 site is on the left.



Next was to build the actual website in DreamWeaver. I really do believe I learned a lot in the project. For example, I definitely felt like I was able to problem solve better on my own. However, I did not get everything done that I wished to.  I did not got all the links working for the individual channels. However I was able to make a working carrousel that I was proud of. I did wish that I had been a little bit more ambitious with my designs, because I know that I can totally do it, even if I didn't think I could before.




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