Thursday, October 21, 2010

First Website.

www.tampbaycreative.com/tony

This is the first site I've made, as well as the first flash I've done. 

What I noticed about making a website:
First and foremost is that the CSS is extremely important.  It can aid the formation of the website to the point that it took me one day to make my first page and one day to make the following two and do the finishing touches.  And Dreamweaver makes it easier than flat typing.

What I noticed about making a flash:
The most important concept is timing.  I had way too long of an intro and wound up with the end part sped up.  I'll admit the design is fairly poor, but I was mostly exploring the possibilities anyways.  I learned tons about what all can be done, even if I haven't fully explored everything.

I look forward to future projects.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Dreamweaver: How it should be.

Dreamweaver, as a web-design program, is great.  Plenty of useful tools, intuitive, and focused.  It will do anything you tell it to.  Which is why I feel that, by now, it should be outdated.  For example, why should I have to type codes for what are very simple things?  It is like a text based Photoshop.  Would it be that hard to make a program that is as simple as drag and drop?  I can understand most of it, and can even agree with it.  Yes, it gives a lot of control.  But most of it could be made simpler for the user.

My art teacher showed me a very interesting program in High School, on for giving presentations.  You put what u wanted where u wanted, then drew a motion path.  It could rotates and move and had lots of options, and was really as simple as drag and drop.  Something like that would be great for designing a website.  Give me freedom to design.