Website Design.

I have had abit of trouble trying to decide what I want the site to look like, I wanted my artistic flare to come through rather than having it just a plain layout with just block colour like rescource space (figure 1). I previously made the Bournemouth Pier using Illustrator.(this is in the last post and shown in figure 2). I decided as it was called the station I wanted it to kind of reflect at TV, so I created this on Illustrator aswell. I have tried to make it as simple as possible and not being too busy and crowded.

Figure 1

Here is the website layout I talked about above.

Figure 2

I have used the Pier in the background but reduced it in size so it doesnt dominate the whole site, and places this TV in the foreground, which will be where the video will be show. there is a volume slider and on and off buttons, which will act and the play and pause buttons. On the right I have created a section where you see the title of the film, the description and a button that leads you to the uploaders profile. And at the top I have used a simple font for 'The Station' and other text, I have also places the BU symbol next to it too.

That is all for now people.

The Station

The website has to be Bournemouth/Dorset/South Coast orientated so I thought I would use the a picture of Bournemouth pier and draw an outline of it in Illustrator then colour it in photoshop. Im not entirly sure how im going to incorperate this image into the site purely because of the size. I might have to reduce the size of the image to be able to fit all the content of the site on it. here is the image.

I created this using illustrator, using the line, pen and drawing tool, then transferred it into photoshop to do the colouring and shading. It took me roughly a day on and off to create this. it was quite ambitious but I think I have pulled it off. Tune in again for more website design ideas. x

The Station

Okay I should of done this a while ago. But here I am. Our new project brief is called 'The Station' which is where we have to make a front end and back end of a contact management system, in which users can make profiles and upload videos to the site. Basically a mini Youtube.
For this project we will be diving deep into some seriously heavy PHP coding aswell as the HTML and CSS we learnt last year. We learnt a little PHP last year but we have learnt alot more for this project. to be honest I'm still trying to get my head around PHP coding. I got an E book for PHP off someone on my course which being 500 pages will take a while to sort though to find relevant bits.
The styling of the website shout be minimilistic and should reflect the area. e.i south coast, Bournemouth and Dorset. I have come up with a few ideas already but none of which I am entirley happy with at the moment, All i have done I feel to not reflect the brief. I will put them on here at a later date when I am fully content with my ideas.