Empire Design, further contact

I decided to get in touch with Empire Design again, as I really enjoyed my week's experience I did over the Summer, here are some emails

 email I sent in Late October regarding interest in experience again,

  

 reply from ^^

I suggest the first week of the Christmas Holidays, the middle and final weeks would be too short due to bank holidays and me returning to Leeds

 

A reply I got, suggesting longer than a week over Easter, this sounds better than a week at Christmas as I think it would all be quite rushed and hectic!

So far so good

First Crit Feedback

ACTION PLAN - TO DO.

- research appropriate publishers for the book covers

- NPG (iconic exhibition promotion?) explore promotional products (tickets, guides, scale posters, banners)

- Book covers - consider box set contents? (stickers, book marks, in store display, fold out poster?)

- Neaten g2 covers, consider typeface, layout, do 12

logo/identity/brand for myself?

PPD presentation - level 6 start

Open publication - Free publishing - More 3rd year

YEAR 3

THREE

PPD presentation, 2nd year

WEBSITE FOR ROOT, alterations

I decided to change the homepage images. At the moment I had half photographs, half images that could represent each designer. I think the images for each designer are better, they demonstrate the type of work we like individually, in a cheerful way.

each rollover image is the designers name, in a different colour, so that the name is legible, also I want the homepage to be bright and different, I basically see these four icons as a bit of imagery that viewers can interactive with a bit. 

I thought this page was a bit dull, so I brightened it up a bit.. 

created a rollover, bright pink, keeping the viewer interested. 

RE VISITING LIGHTBOX

I thought I should make the descriptions with more depth, at the moment I basically just named them. I added a brief description of what our company was asked to do.

code:

This is how it looked once you click on the icon:

WORK PAGE

I have created links to each of our blogs on the work page to show further work.

I also resized each of the icon boxes in the coding so that they are exactly the same size.

ABOUT page

I changed the rollover image from 'that works for you' (too cheesy), to 'personally designed'

WEBSITE FOR ROOT,

MY INITIAL WEBPAGES WERE ALL DELETED BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE ON MY DESKTOP SO WHEN I TRIED TO REPLACE THE FOLDER IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY SAVE.

I HAVE TO START AGAIN.




LIGHT BOX RE DONE.

I have added the images again, into separate albums for each catagory. I also replaced the text on the page, with small icons of sections of the images that will be in that album. I named each section with a album title, this will distinguish each icon as a separate album. In order for these images to work, I have to link them all the the images folder located in my root folder. I also have to link the template with the work.html I am working from, so that the downloaded Light box feature updates to it.

CONTACT INFO.

To change font, I edit specific properties, found in 'page properties'

 I can create a font design that can be given a label, this way I can use it for multiple purposes. 

Heading 1  - 14px, coloured mint green, with a sans serif type face. 

Creating multiple heading settings, 

I can apply them to different text, creating a larger variety of text appearances. 

NEWS

 I wondered what I could put in the 'NEWS' section. 

Seeing as we are a new company, I thought mini profiles of each company member could be useful? 

HOMEPAGE

IMAGES REPRESENTING EACH 4. 

I created them as rollover images, our names will appear when the mouse hovers over the icons. 

PAGES FINAL. 

DEVELOPING WEBSITE FOR 'ROOT'

I wanted to add images to it, but so they are shown in a way that really shows them off,

I looked at a code called 'Lightbox', it's coding is a combination of javascript and CSS, once I had downloaded the coding I had to imput my own images, titles and groups in order to make it work and unique to my website.

LIGHTBOX CODE

Here is the same section, after  I had included the right coding to make the website unique.

I decided to group each project as individual albums that would preview as small slideshows. Each group is also shown as a small thumbnail (which I had to create in photoshop then insert). I have made the thumbnails quite small and they reveal little about the contents of the small album, this not only keeps the line of thumbnails neat, but also could persuade the viewers to look further into the images. 

When you click on each thumbnail, a separate page loads, 

I also added a title, and a small description (which I will make more detailed). 

This works for each individual group of photographs. 

PRESENTATION FEEDBACK,