1. What is the purpose of the website? – The purpose of the website is to sell children clothing/shoes. It is a webstore. 2. What kind of visitors are you expecting on your website? – I am expecting parents shopping for their kids. People with a interest in fashion, and with an income from average and up. 3. How big is the budget? And when … Continue reading Create a Wireframe
This learning activity is to acquire your own hosting service. This hosting service will be needed throughout the rest of your studies, and this Learning Activity is therefore mandatory. I already have my own domain name because I have a dream to start my own online store. I decided to move the domain that I already have to One.com, and in a few days the process … Continue reading My own hosting service
The internet: The internet is a world wide network of computers that is there to share information from different devices to another. Today almost everything can be connected to the internet, such as computers, cell phones, clocks, toys and so much more. All information that you can get over the internet is saved on servers. HTML: HTML stands for hyper text marker language. HTML is … Continue reading Get the basics right
Assignment: Take a magazine, newspaper or book that includes images and text. Lay tracing paper over the top of three spreads (both left-hand and right-hand pages). Using a pencil and ruler, carefully trace the grid underlying the page layouts. Remember to remove specific text elements or images, and to only draw the grid lines. Note column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and … Continue reading Layout – Basic principles of layout
Assignment: Using InDesign, design a 4-page brochure for a fictitious travel agent. The size of the brochure should be A5 (when it is folded). Design the brochure in full colour. Use fake body copy, but create sensible headings. Use titles, headings and images of your choice. Be sure to pay attention to: Choice of type Choice of imagery Use of layout and grid to communicate … Continue reading Layout – Design of layout
Assignment: Rearrange shapes cut out of paper, and try to find the point at which the figure disappears into the ground. Cut out a series of shapes from black paper – squares, rectangles, circles and random shapes – in a variety of sizes, from small to large. Working with a square piece of white paper, place shapes of different sizes into the white space; place … Continue reading Layout -Form and space
Assignment: Compare the design (in terms of pace and contrast) of an online magazine, blog or website to that of a printed magazine, book or journal. I used a Costume magazine and the Costume webpage for comparison. There are several differences between the two formats. A magazine does have a front page, and a back page. On the front page there is always a … Continue reading Layout – Pace and contrast
This week I have taken a lot of photography of different objects. I have tested out different functions on my camera, and I had a lot of fun with it. I tried to get some motion blurred pictures but I could not get any that was good. Here are 6 of my favourite photos: 1/320 f1.8 ISO 800 1/2500 f2.2 ISO 800 1/3200 … Continue reading Photography
Name all the functions / buttons on the front of your camera Name all the functions / buttons on the back of your camera Explain how you would set the correct ISO Explain how you would change the aperture Explain how you would change the shutter speed For this assignment I downloaded a picture of my camera from the back and one from the front. … Continue reading Exposure basics
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