Goodbye blogger!

Hey everyone!

Thank you ALL for taking the time to read my blog!

I'm not going anywhere though, don't worry!

I'm simply moving homes. My blog is now accessible on my own personal website which you can find here.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you over at the other side!

http://www.samuelmarshall.com

LUCY: Website tweeks and development

I have gone through and tweeked various things throughout Lucy's website and added in a more secure login system to prevent hacking of the blog and gig updates etc.

Fixed various design flaws - including too much inconsistancy between headings and colours etc. Things are a lot more structured and userfriendly now, including headings, possitioning and other TINY little things in the code that usually wouldn't go noticed, but make a massive difference to the professional quality such as padding etc.

I've also made the add, edit and delete forms for the blog and gigs MUCH more user friendly by changing the text boxes to drop down menus.

You can now upload photos up the 3MB and the system will automatically downsize it to fit within the constraints of the website WITHOUT distortion, however the file size will remain the same.

The login procedure is now MUCH more secure. People can't edit the blog or gigs by accessing the individual pages, they MUST log in. (Which was previously a flaw in the last log in design)

I've added in a random image selecter on the home page so that it will randomly choose an image to display which is a photo of Lucy and a comment that someone has said about her. (Refresh the home page to see this working)

The alignment of the text is now justified so that it spreads evenly accross the page. (Small minor change, big difference!)

And finally, the MP3 player begins playing the first track when you load up each page.

I'm handing in my work on Thursday and doing my presentation on Friday... I think we're almost finished!!

I've talked to my brother about getting the website online at Lucy's own domain, and I hope to get that online by the end of March. Fingers crossed!

LUCY: Website complete!

Lucy's website has been one of the most exciting, rewarding and challenging projects I've worked on to date.

Not only has it been a great chance for me to express myself and my skills, it's also been great to create a website for someone I care a lot about and deliver something of high quality to the end user.

I've managed to create 2 flash MP3 players, video content, a banner, a gallery and an interactive side bar with links to twitter, facebook and myspace. Along side this, I've developed two databases where Lucy can update her own personal blog and a space where she can post up all her upcoming gigs. Not only can she do this, but she can also edit and delete every post and add a photograph alongside her blog entries - quite a brilliant accessory to keep herself and her fans up-to-date on her progress.

I've also included a Twitter feed onto her home page where fans can access the site and get an instant update without having to access her blog first.

This is the first website I've created which uses Flash AND PHP, MySql together. They have worked very well together and their seamless interaction benefits are going to be very beneficial to Lucy's promotion.

Overall, I'm overly happy with how this project has gone and I'd rate it the best website I've made, so far.

The next step is to create the login page and get Lucy to check over it all to make sure everything is how she wants it.

http://www.kidinacandystore.co.uk/lucyward/index.html

Carphone Warehouse - UNI Mobile

I've finally finished my website project.

Here's the website I've made for UNI Mobile as part of a promotional offer from the Carphone Warehouse store in Nottingham.

UNI Mobile is a fictional company I've made as an illustration purpose. The Carphone Warehouse store in Nottingham, however, is real and therefore fits in with the retail establishment as stated in the brief.

I have used CSS, Flash, Javascript and HTML to create the website. I'm very pleased with how it's turned out. The colours are very eye catching and the site is simple to use and serves its purpose.

Markeaton Park Website: First Product

Here is the first version of my Markeaton Park website online and fully functioning!

To say I have never done ANY HTML, CSS or Javascript before, I think I've done fairly well! Just don't look at my coding, it's a bit of a mess! ;)

It's not EXACTLY the same as my initial ideas that I produced in Photoshop as the opacity effects across different browers is occasionally quite tricky. I managed to get around this in IE by creating a seperate CSS file and removing the opacity, and just maknig a plane white box instead. Not a big issue really, but none the less, a bit annoying.

Almost everything else is exactly as I wanted it, except the links, but I quite like it layed out how it is at the moment. If I had longer to work on it, I would spend longer adapting the code and being really perfective over the whole design.

WEBSITE: Completed

Finally my website is complete!

It has taken several months to design, redesign, edit, adjust and complete this site what with my other projects and being busy enjoying my time off, but it's finally here!

Check it out now at kidinacandystore.co.uk

WEBSITE: Page design

This is the final design for my new website page.

It has been made in flash and will feature a sample of the work I've produced over the last few years.

This website will also include some information of the current projects I am working on and my qualifications gained so far.

Hopefully the website will profile me and what I do when it comes to designing and producing Multimedia content.

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.

My concept for the Identities project.

I’m using the New York City street as an idealistic world I would love to live in and my elements will reflect this in one way or another.


Each element will directly link to the idealistic dream and identity I’m trying to create.

Showcase – New York, where I’d love to live.

Avatar – Me, now.

Website – Shows a history of what I’ve done, taking experience with me.

Audio/Visual – Up-tempo music video, showing best bits of New York, creates an ideal image of what New York should be like, which may not be true in reality.

Logo – Speech bubble emphasises the friends and family I’ll be leaving behind.

Final Version: Girls

Finaly! After 3 painful weeks of renaming, filtering, re-filtering, rerenaming and nameing and refiltering and putting together and taking apart and adapting and moving and cutting and squashing, I can now unveil the final version for my pixilation animation project!!

This dance mix of "Girls" by the Sugababes is an excellent track to experiement with pixilation effects. I took an original remix and cut it down to about 6 minutes and then decided to add into it all the filtered photos as well as utilising the originals. The outcome is a pretty sweet dance video that's fun to watch and keeps the pace up.

There's no real meaning behind the video other than a journey, and it's deffinatly been an eventful one through the creating of this video! So sit back and enjoy, while i go nurse my throbing headache!