My Final Design

My Final Design

Throughout the creative making process of this assignment, I tweaked a couple of features from my designs. These small changes are very evident on my final outcome, and create a more professional appearance and organised structure.

Here you can see my full design (above). You can see the master file basically contains the features which stay on every page, for example, the header, footer and navigation bar. Each file looks neat and organised apart from the three galleries, because in order to see the photographs full screen after clicking the thumbnails they have to over-ride the neatness of the design and fill the screen.

Some advice I got given during the creative process was to add more colour to my design, because it looked boring and plain. So, I decided to add a slanted rectangle to remove some of the structure and add some creative artistic elements on the website not just the photographs. The colour of the rectangle is actually the lightest colour on the image with the location photography blog post. Also, by adding a working form people who want to purchase my book can just fill out the form and send off for one. 

These three pages (above) show my literacy skills and teaching skills. This will be an ongoing blog updated every week with a new lesson on each three themes. This shows I am more than just a blogger or just a photographer. I am a teacher. I am providing more materials for young aspirational photographers who would visit my website every week to learn something new.

From my original design this about page has changed a lot. There is less writing and the images are a lot bigger. They fill the space. They fill the page.

My gallery design is basically the same. It is very simple yet does its job. Its clear and easy to work.

These are the galleries when you click on one of the yellow flower images on the main gallery page. When you click on the thumbnail of a picture then it appears full screen in a slide show format.

If I could change anything on my designs I would create social media pages also to link up to this website using the social media thumbnails in the bottom left corner.

Using Adobe Muse

Using Adobe Muse

The software I will be using to create my three page website is called Adobe Muse. Adobe Muse was first released May 7, 2012, but it's most stable release was June 15, 2015. It is described as a visual design editor. It can create websites perfect for desktops, tablets and mobile devices.

I used this book to help me use Adobe Muse. "Adobe Muse Classroom In A Book". This helped me, because it worked through creating the website in simple stages, which I find an easy way of learning. From creating the master layout to placing little widgets and special assets on to my website.

Changing My Designs

Changing My Designs

In order to now create my three page website I will have to update my designs from the feedback I received from my first project.

These three images (above) show my original designs, which I submitted for my previous assignment. The feedback I received stated that there was too much literacy and not enough visuals for a photography focused website. Also, this web design is quite dark for floral photography, because flowers are quite colourful and the blackness contrasts the colours. Finally, the last piece of feedback was that my social networking signs are too large suggesting they have the same importance as my logo, which was unintentional.

Looking at these new designs in contrast to the former ones; quite a bit has changed. the homepage alone is a lot brighter and instead of christmas packages I have decided to promote and sell my new book. There a bit more interactivity on the homepage now, because a reader can fill out the form to order my book. On the about page the block of writing in the centre of the page is a mixture of both descriptions; my companies and mine. The gallery really proves that less is more, because by sticking with three pictures of yellow flowers there is a strong theme, which is clear and easy to follow.