Web Design & Production

REFERENCE SITES

jaekeb — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:16:31 +0000

After much time spent trawling the interweb, I found Five decent sites. Their visual styles and user friendliness could be a good influence on the CIMF site.

Common Characteristics

Style: The sites are visually harmonious, and soft on the eye. The Images/Text/Buttons all work towards a common theme.(4/5sites)

Background:The background features the strongest imagery, and there is a floating box with all the content.(4/5sites)

Navigation: The main site pages can be found under horizontal tabs towards the top of the screen.(5/5sites)

Bottom Bar: There is a bottom bar with links like “contact us”, “sitemap”, “bookmark”, or “RSS”.(4/5sites)

Window scaling: The Content on the pages is always centered, while the background is locked to the right border.(4/5sites)

Sound: There is no sound effects or music in the sites*.(4/5Sites)
*considering the genre of my site, i consider sound.

Text: The text in each site is in a simple, clear and legible(plain) font(5/5Sites)

First Impressions

jaekeb — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:59:48 +0000

CIMF sands for Canberra International Music Festival. It looks to be a celebration of clasical music and performers held in Canberra, in the month of May. This sounds like a boring genre with a boring website. Now theres not much i can do in the way of making classical music more interesting, but the site could definately be more visually engaging and user friendly.

Pretty long page. Only the top third is initialy visible. The viewer must scroll down to discover most of the content.

First things first

jaekeb — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:58:33 +0000

I gotta choose a site to remodel. I can choose between…

http://www.stonefest.com.au

http://www.folkfestival.asn.au

http://www.cimf.org.au

Im thinkin Stonefest will be the most popular, so i wont touch that one(too much competition). The CIMF site looks in need of a bit of a makeover.

Done. CIMF it is.

http://www.cimf.org.au

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out

jaekeb — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:18:50 +0000

Oh snap! Im gettin my Blog on yo!

After years and years using the internet, and generally avoiding blogs of any kind, this year i am required in 2 Units to create a blog of my own. I always sorta thought that blogs were a total waste of time and quite boring, like the test pattern displayed on tv at 4am, but after peepin around a few of the more popular sites(wordpress/tumlir/blogger) i found that they are not ALL a COMPLETE waste of time. I haven’t overly enjoyed my blogging experience as a member of the audience, but i must admit that in my short time as a “Blogger” i have hovered around a level of entertainment somewhere between painting a wall, and watching paint dry. Hopefully after I finish this course at uni, my enjoyment level will be somewhere in between mowing the lawn, and watching grass grow.

Who knows, maybe ill continue blogging even after i finish the course..

Hello world!

jaekeb — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:32:05 +0000

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