Wednesday, 28 November 2012

How to add a background image


*padding* can be used to change image co-ordinates

Evaluation


Here is the layout for my 1st website (no links yet). I however want to completely re-do this reguarding a new set of skills I have picked up and using the 960 template on photoshop along with better container divs etc.

This site is a prerunner to the concept idea I had of making every menu and title image to look drawn and fairly basic in a 'doodle' style. I took inspiration from the aardman website
( http://www.aardman.com/ ) and linked this with the fact that I doodle a lot. However I feel like I started this design falsely and with not many skills as I have been concentrating on other units. I now through trial, error and research know more about the software such as padding and acurately sized images. Plus I have a greater understanding of a good page layout, I want to make the categories less handwritten and more like doodles. I plan to work on a new interactive page in the next week. I'd like to add that I have a full time job...

However I do like the simplicity of this page with focus on the image.




Here is a much better design I am happy with...

Monday, 26 November 2012

Change of Name

I have decided to call my web title 'Blowke'. This is because I always name the strange drawings I do by adding 'bloke' on the end of them, for example 'alien bloke' or 'scary bloke with a bike bloke' and have become known from my facebook album built up of these characters.

Monday, 12 November 2012

Website mock-up

This is a very rough mock up of my website, this will pobably change.
I want to produce a rough drawn style for the title and sections as it bounces off the fat that I doodle a lot.