So Far...
I don't quite know how I'm going to make it, but I have some very certain ideas for my website, I know exactly how I want it, its just transferring the ideas in my head on to the screen, one idea I have is to make the banner an animated banner with my name on it, with a static noise effect on it, this will have to be made in flash, but if I can do it properly then I think it will look great.
The website will have a overall house style, made with a CSS page, so that all of the text is one colour and that the background is one colour, I think the background will most likely be black or white, as I don't want to have an image for the background as it may cause the website to load slowly, and I don't really like standard block colours as they aren't very striking, so I feel that black and white will look the best as then the users attention is drawn to the text and it will be much easier to read, as opposed to having a rainbow background or something like that.
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Banner
I know exactly how I want my title/banner to look, with the home page having it as an animated banner, and the other pages being just plain static images
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Site name
I will most likely buy the domain name of markpalmer.co.uk, as it is simple and easy although it may not be very interesting, I think its probably the best name for the website, as it is a site about myself.
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House Style
The websites house style will consist of the colour of the text, the font of the text, and the size of the text, the banner at the top could also be considered a part of the house style as it will be the same for each page, except for the home page which will have an animated banner.
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I am going to have a home page, with the flash animated banner, and then have a page about myself, with some information regarding my skills, my interests and likes and dislikes.
A page about the site, with some information about what programs I used.
A contact page, with a form to contact me, which accesses a javascript file, so that the form can only be sent if the email field in the form has the @ character and a full stop, which all email addresses have, so at least that way it has to be a valid email address for it to be sent, or at least what could be used as a valid address.And ..
A photos page, with pictures of me and friends and pictures of what I have made during the course.
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Colour scheme
I have decided that the overall colour scheme of the website will be black and purple, purple being my favorite colour, and also standing out well on a black background, which works with the colour blind web page test, which means that my website should be compliant with pretty much everything.
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Font
The websites font will be Lucida Console as I like this font and I think it looks quite good on a purple background, it is also simple and easy to read, which I really like.-------------------------
Pictures
I plan to have about ten pictures which I will change once every week or so, so than anyone who views my website wont have to see the same pictures for ages, and I will also update my pictures from the course as they are made.
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Update: 9Th Nov
Working slowly but surely on the website, so far the pages have been made and there is bits and bobs of content here and there, not much though really and nothing particularly special, but I have got the bones of the website down now all the pages are made and the CSS page is complete, despite being really simple, it does what I want it to so I'm happy with it
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Update: 11Th Nov
I have now bought a domain name, and instead of buying the plain and boring markpalmer.co.uk, I spontaneously went for simplymarcus.co.uk, which was inspired by the website enjoyincubus.com, which I think is a really cool name, and I also think that its a little bit different from the standard website name, so I'm really happy with my site name, and I shall be uploading the first draft pages today or tomorrow.
Update: 12Th Nov
I have decided to make my buttons in flash, as I feel that they will be easier to contain than if I make each button as a rollover button with three images to make on button, as having the buttons self contained in a flash file will keep things a lot simpler. However it does make the HTML code look a bit less tidy as it inserts a large amount of javascript which will give a user a alert and link to the adobe website, if their version of flash player isn't up to date or they don't have flash player.
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Update: 13Th Nov
The buttons are made and the pages with these buttons are uploaded to the web space, and it all seems to work fine, just need to add the content and complete the form on the contact page and all will be finished, however there are a few things that need validating before I upload the final versions to the web space, as none of the pages pass compliancy as of yet, they all seem to have little errors which I cant figure out annoyingly
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update: 17Th Nov
I have had to change my banner as the original didn't seem to work with the colour blindness test, so i feel it would be better to have the banner as a plain and simple black background, which will work with the colour blindness test.
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This is the new banner-
comparison with the old banner-
I prefer the new one, although I really did like the old one, but it did have certain things which annoyed me, like for instance the fact that the static noise isn't perfect and the fact that the old banner doesn't have the website name, so i think that the new one, as well as being easier to see through the colour blindness test it is also more accurate to the site and professional looking.
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Update: 18Th Nov
The website is now complete, although I have not yet got the form to work properly, it still sends to the Sam-i-am website regardless or what is or isn't written in the form, although i have managed to get it to not validate if it hasn't got an @ in it, although if there is anything else along with the @ it wont validate either, which is a problem. Another problem is that i wanted to have the images as rollover images which get bigger when the mouse is put over it, and i did get it to work, although it didn't work fully and the images shook and wouldn't work properly going from one image to the other, so I have decided to just have standard image which are slightly bigger and viewable as they are as a static image.
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Update: 19Th Nov
That's it, everything is done, the JavaScript now works, and only validates the web form if the email field has a full stop and an @ sign, and all of the pages validate fully, so the home page now has the icon from the Validator page to show that the website is valid. and the CSS is compliant to level 2.1 CSS so I'm really pleased with my site over all and very relieved that its all working hunky dory.
http://www.simplymarcus.co.uk/
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Analysis of the site
Overall I think that my website is really good, I really like it, and although it is very simple, I think that its nice and easy to use and most of all it works properly, which I'm glad about, and no, it isn't that amazing and doesn't look the most exciting, but I am honestly proud of my website, and I really feel like I have achieved something in making it.
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Next time...
If I were to go back and start again, I think I would maybe change the motif of the website so that everything looks a bit brighter, and make sure that the buttons match the rest of the website, because they look a bit odd being green when everything else is purple, although when i made them the green was much more visible that the purple was, so I used green to avoid the issue of people not being able to see what page it linked to, but I don't think the colour is really a big problem. I would also make sure that I had the images as rollover images so that they are made bigger when the mouse is put over them, but it simply wouldn't work for me, so this time I gave up. I would also make the web form reference the javascript page so that it would only work if all of the fields were filled, thus making it less likely to be abused. However I think that the main problem with my site is probably the fact that some things look slightly crowded but I don't really think that is that bad a problem anyway, and overall I still think the website looks pretty good and I'm very happy with what I have made.
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Just a quick screen shot of the pages of the completed website!
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