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The Bike Shed: Revisited

September 28, 2016 by helenng Leave a Comment
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted — I blame the Summer (although admittedly my last post was in February…)! As the MA starts again soon, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up on the back log of posts I said I’d write before the end of term in May, so … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content Management, Design for Web Content Tagged: content management, css, design, html, javascript, mysql, php, project, responsive design, the bike shed

The Bike Shed: Part 3 (The End)

December 1, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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The Bike Shed is finally alive and kicking! It’s been a pretty adventurous 4 weeks and I’ve learnt a HUGE amount during the whole process. I’m so glad I took a few days off from work to properly sit down and fidde with bits here and there, otherwise I’d be posting this on the other … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

The Bike Shed: Part 2

November 24, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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We received the feedback from our interim crit this week and here’s a couple of points that came up for The Bike Shed: Good points – faithful representation of your mock up new logo looks good Things that could improve – use sample products in the shop section instead of a comprehensive list not good … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

The Bike Shed: Part 1

November 15, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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I’ve been starting to mark-up my business website and have managed to do a few pages, it’s not looking too great though… It’s been really hard trying to translate a design from paper to screen; everything just takes so much more effort! Being used to Illustrator and InDesign where moving things around were second-nature, web … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

Small Business Website: The Bike Shed

November 7, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

So we’ve been set our first project–a website for a small business of our choice from four: Roberto’s Italian, Deli The Art of Bloom, Florist The Bike Shed, Cycle Shop Bamboo House, Chinese Takeaway And the main points of the brief are: You’ve been commissioned to build a website for a small business retail outlet … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

What’s Your Type?

November 1, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

This week’s class was all about typography – not just about choosing a pretty typeface, but how it can make or break your website. The first part of our coursework for this week was to work on our XHTML Good Designs website and really think about the typographic elements: font-size, leading/line-height, typeface, how many to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: aesthetics, typography, web design, web typography, website

The Hard Way

October 21, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

So I’ve learnt A LOT this week… In class, we learnt about the structural layer of the webpage: HTML. We went through its background and the syntax etc. This week’s assignment was to make a four page website, strictly using XHTML, with all the pages linking to each other. I’ve been reading Jennifer Robins’ Learning … [Read more…]

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Learning From Others

October 2, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

The third part of our brief was to find a few examples for each of the websites a client had asked us to design: 1. Dead Sea Squirrels – an upcoming indie rock band from Sheffield Blur I really like the music video playing in the background of the site. The Carnabys It has a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: design, website

Aesthetics and Ethics

October 2, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

In the afternoon, we had a look at what good website design meant and the whole design and build process of a site. It was interesting going through all the old archived sites of BBC, John Lewis, and TFL, and seeing how they developed through the years. The BBC and TFL site started off relatively … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: accessibility, aesthetics, web design, website

What Is Design?

September 30, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

This week was all about learning to be aware of design and knowing the difference between the good, the bad, and the ugly! As Paul Rand puts it: Design is the method of putting form and content together David showed us a simple example of a liquid detergent ball and pointed out all the design … [Read more…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: design, web design, website
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