Well it's finally here! The first upload to my own website!
www.kidinacandystore.co.uk went online today with my Uni project to front the website.
Eventually the website will be re-designed and actually be relevent to me. At the moment, it's just a holding place until I know exactly the design I want.
Take a look and let me know what you think!
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Avatar Video
Now, I was unsure how to present my avatar. I didn't really wanna just plonk a picture of him down as my showcase already has 2 print based elements. So I decided to create a sort of mini music videoy thing.
I think it showcases my avatar quite well. It shows the detail I went into to make it look as realistic as possible.
I'd like to point out now that I detest 3Ds Max and as I'm not going to be doing virtual environments next year, I've probably not given as much time to this object as necessary. However, it has taken me weeks and weeks constant work to get to this point, so even though it looks fairly basic, it's actually taken a lot of man hours! haha.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
The Audio Visual Object
Here it is! The first version of my audio/visual.
The video represents an ideal view of what New York could be like. The voice over helps to create an atmosphere of the heat, the fun, activities and the friendly citizens.
The song I've backed to the video is Alphabeat's Fascination as the song works really well with the theme as I'm trying to portray New York as being an incredible place to be.. or you could say, a fascinating place to be!
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Showcase - Flash
Showcase by ~sammarshall20 on deviantART
Here's the Showcase as it stands at the moment. The buttons will become clickable once all the content has been assigned to them.
Audio maybe edited to sound a bit more New Yorky, but this is the idea at the moment.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Showcase - New York - Render
Here's the latest render of my showcase, as you can see I've added some signs, cars, lampposts and widened the street a bit.
Website Reviews
It's time for my few website reviews.
You would've thought that with all the pressure on countries to expand their broadband connectivity that the whole world would be using a pretty speedy connection. This is the case in a lot of countries, however, some major website are still fairly basic. Let's take Google and Facebook for example.
Google is probably the most common and used website in the world, yet it's front end design is very very basic. The website literally is comprised of just the logo "Google" which changes very occasionally and then the search box beneath it. Google has been running for years and year yet it's main search engine's website is still very basic.
Facebook, another world-wide accessed website is also very simple, with a blue banner across the top and a very simple picture below to show the connectivity Facebook has with it's users. Each of these websites have to be accessible across the whole world and on many platforms such as iPhones and other mobile technology, and even games consoles. Therefore, the designs have to stay fairly simple to allow for that adaptation between devices.
As they are both world-wide websites, it could be said that as they reach countries that are less developed, they have to keep their website sizes down to make it accessable to places with lower speed internet connections.
Contrasting these sites to the BBC UK website, we can see some differences.
The BBC website has been created with the UK in mind. Before stating your location on the BBC homepage, its pressumes your in London and displays the weather for that location.
As we look at the website, there's a massive increase in colour and photography. This website has been created for a standard browser and for the UK population. As a developed country it is taken as standard that most UK citizens who are accessing the website will have a fast broadband connection and therefore will be able to see the entire website very quickly, and therefore the site size and loading times haven't been considered as much as the other two websites with larger circulation numbers.
The bright colours on the BBC website will attract all users and the colours change, depending upon what time of day, season or the main headlines are. All in all, the BBC website is made with the UK in mind, considering the standard broadband speed of each household, where as Google and Facebook have had to consider the entire world in their design and have adapted their size and imagery accordingly.
You would've thought that with all the pressure on countries to expand their broadband connectivity that the whole world would be using a pretty speedy connection. This is the case in a lot of countries, however, some major website are still fairly basic. Let's take Google and Facebook for example.
Google is probably the most common and used website in the world, yet it's front end design is very very basic. The website literally is comprised of just the logo "Google" which changes very occasionally and then the search box beneath it. Google has been running for years and year yet it's main search engine's website is still very basic.Facebook, another world-wide accessed website is also very simple, with a blue banner across the top and a very simple picture below to show the connectivity Facebook has with it's users. Each of these websites have to be accessible across the whole world and on many platforms such as iPhones and other mobile technology, and even games consoles. Therefore, the designs have to stay fairly simple to allow for that adaptation between devices.
As they are both world-wide websites, it could be said that as they reach countries that are less developed, they have to keep their website sizes down to make it accessable to places with lower speed internet connections.
Contrasting these sites to the BBC UK website, we can see some differences.
The BBC website has been created with the UK in mind. Before stating your location on the BBC homepage, its pressumes your in London and displays the weather for that location.As we look at the website, there's a massive increase in colour and photography. This website has been created for a standard browser and for the UK population. As a developed country it is taken as standard that most UK citizens who are accessing the website will have a fast broadband connection and therefore will be able to see the entire website very quickly, and therefore the site size and loading times haven't been considered as much as the other two websites with larger circulation numbers.
The bright colours on the BBC website will attract all users and the colours change, depending upon what time of day, season or the main headlines are. All in all, the BBC website is made with the UK in mind, considering the standard broadband speed of each household, where as Google and Facebook have had to consider the entire world in their design and have adapted their size and imagery accordingly.
Website Completed
Website by ~sammarshall20 on deviantART
Here's the final version of my website! It's fully complete however the videos and audio don't work through DeviantArt so you'll have to just imagine what it'll be like when i load it onto my own website.
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