A Student's Guide to Web Design

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"Student Guide to Web Design is committed to better equipping students after graduation for the design industry with an inviting community that encourages collaboration and the sharing of ideas.

Dissatisfaction towards current design education at the university level seems to becoming more widespread throughout fresh talent entering the web design industry. Post-secondary education accommodates students to grow within an environment that promotes the advancement of technical skills, rather than soft skills needed to secure  employment after graduation."

You can see more websites about web design on my pinterest board 

Radio Advertisement

Assignment 2: . Flat D-Pads radio advertisement. Create a :30 second advertisement. Target Market: Demographics: 30-35 yrs old, Male, Married, 1-2 kids under 10, 30-35k; Psychographics: Active lifestyle, Energy Drink Consumer, Night Owl; Geographics: Top 20 metro markets.

see my pinterest board

Assignment 3 De-Marketing

Assignment 3:
            De-Marketing an idea for the Art Institute.  Fill out a creative brief. 

            Any vehicle (medium) is permitted, ie, t-shirts, bumper stickers etc.

See my pinterest board 

T shirt templates 

Final- Interactive Map

Our final project for Interactive Motion Graphics is to make an interactive map with videos.
Some of the ideas I have had are:

• Doing a portfolio site for a teacher and having a bookshlf with books on it. When you click on a book a cliff notes version of the book plays. 

• A map showing large dog friendly  apartment complexes in Austin. Maybe add to website I could build for a Ridgeback Club to put on my website.

• Back of bar when you click on a bottle of alcohol a video plays about that alcohol. Or I could do glasses with drinks in them and  a video plays showing how to make that drink. Everyone makes websites about alcoholic drinks.

• I could make a site for a real estate agent with a featured property page that would have a floor plan you click on it and video of the room plays.

• A map of Texas with small towns and you can click on them to see a video of that town. I guess this could be a day trip travel site or a story of Texas site. 

• Floorplan of a preschool. Videos could be about how to set up a classroom.

• A cupcake website clicking on cupcakes brings up the recipe.

In the end I decided to do a map of back road cafes in Texas.

Examples of interactive maps

• Interactive map software for creating clickable, flash interactive maps. Has lists of ideas.

• Another software program with examples and ideas for inspiration.

• This tutorial will teach you how to create an interactive map in which a map marker flies over to the city highlighted and will show a small photograph of that city.

• Information about wineries. I like the intro on this map.

• How to make a very useful and widely used element: an interactive map. Whether it be a country map, like the case is here, or an anatomical map of human body, city plan, an engine schema, etc.,  
• Inspiration from an e learning site.  

Mid Term Spider

My finished Itsy Bitsy Spider

Controversial Television Ad

Controversial television ad for Fundamentals of Advertising. I didn't really like the idea of having to make a controversial ad.  I think they are all in bad taste and really wish that we didn't do this assignment.

I had 4 ideas for the ad.

1. Penn state football - good touch bad touch football

2 A man is holding a game controller and a woman is doing household chores. The tag line is something about this game controller is so great it can even control her.

3. Making fun of PETA with an ad for mashed potatoes

4 A paintball ad using real footage of war and making light of it.

I ended up doing the mashed potatoes ad. Here are my story board.

Advertising Portfolio

The final project in this class is a portfolio. Each week we get a homework assignment for something to add to out portfolio.


So far these are the assignments we are suppose to have done for our portfolios:

Assignment 1:

            Mindmap is a reflection of your thoughts.  Choose an inner word and branch                        off onto related words, and continue to go all the way to the edge of the           paper.

Assignment 2:

            Flat D-Pads radio advertisement.  Format is on Doc Sharing.  Create a :30      second advertisement.

            Target Market: Demographics: 30-35 yrs old, Male, Married, 1-2 kids under 10, 30-35k; Psychographics: Active lifestyle, Energy Drink Consumer, Night            Owl; Geographics: Top 20 metro markets. 

Assignment 3:
            De-Marketing an idea for the Art Institute.  Fill out a creative brief. 

            Any vehicle (medium) is permitted, ie, t-shirts, bumper stickers etc.

Assignment 4:

            Jimmy Dean Slogan change:  Current: Eat Jimmy Dean!  Change it to appeal

            To your defined target market.

Assignment 5:

            Philips lightbulb billboard, or True Clean Towel billboard, radio ad, or           magazine ad.  Creative brief is given, design your advertisement based on

            The given creative brief (AFTER YOU FILL IN THE MISSING PIECES).

Assignment 6:

            Write a creative brief for any product of your choice to prepare for the

            Controversial television ad you will create in Assignment 7.

Assignment 7:

            Write a controversial television ad based on the creative brief in assignment             6.  The format is on the Powerpoint for Week 6.

Assignment 8:

            Write a press release to explain your position for the controversial    advertisement in Assignment 7.  

See my marketing board on pinterest

Design for Server-Side Technology

Design for Server-Side Technology is the second half of Design for dynamic websites. This class focus is on PHP and MySql. We have a website that we are posting our homework assignments. They come from 2 books PHP Solutions and Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.

Final project is a website that uses PHP and MySql.

Website Proposal

Austin is full of amazing places to photograph.  Most people know about Mt. Bonnell or the state capital but what if you are looking for a unique place to photograph. Do you know where to go in Austin to photograph an iconic Austin mural or get a great shot of a peacock? The purpose of this website is to provide users with information about places to photograph around Austin that they might not know about.  This site helps users find great backdrops and scenic views for their photos. Members can also share with other users their favorite places to photograph and they can also chat with other users about where to take pictures.

Proposed Site Map

Home Page

Member sign up

Videos

User submitted galleries

Blog

Interactive map

Contact

Mid Term

Station ID using things we have learned so far in After Effects

Lesson 5

Text and sound with After Effects

Lesson 4

Masking with after effects

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Midterm project is to animate a nursery room. I did Itsy Bitsy Spider. This is my rough draft it still needs some work like the sun spinning in different directions. I don't like Flash I really don't know how to work with it so this may seem simple but it took me a long time to make all the graphics and figure out how to use Flash.The spider legs move when I converted it to a file I could upload to youtube the legs stopped moving so its suppose to look like the spiders walking.