Finished web design

This is my finished web design and honestly I am proud of it.  Even thought I do not no the program as well as i would like i feel as thought I have learned a lot in this class about Dreamweaver and using CSS. For my design I tried to use a sense of hierarchy  to the title with the works with the Information. I uses just  two shades of blue to create contrast with the white text. It came along way from what i was expecting.

Research for Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau is a Canadian Designer that was born on October 25th 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario. Mau studied in Ontario College of art and design but did not finish because he went to work for Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. He founded Public Good design and Communications with to others and soon after established his own studios. His studio is called Bruce Mau Design.  He was the creative director for I.D. Magazine for a few years.
 From 1996 to 1999 he was a professor at Rice University School of architecture on Houston. He has also worked at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, California Institute of arts, and Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.  Mau is a member of the Ontario College of art and design, The royal Canadian Academy of Art. He was awarded the Chrysler Award of Design Innovation in 1988 and  in 1999 he was awarded teh Toranto Arts Award for Architechure and Design. He is married to Bisi Williams Mau.

Reading about CSS

From these articles I learned a number of important things. First of all CSS are casading style sheets and these files allow you to organize your website it make it easy to stylies. Internal stylesheets are best used when you have alots of different pages that you want to look differnet.External stylesheets are created in a texteditor and have no HTML. You can go back and edit these pages easily. The last way to create style on your pages is inline stlye sheets. These are the more containing sheets because they dont allow you to have as much freedom. CSS syntax contains three different parts. First the Inheritance which tells you what the properties of the elements will be. The second one is Combining Selectors. This helps you combine within one selector. The last one is Comment tags. These are usefull for when someone else is looking ar your file so they can find things more easily or you can just leave a random comment.

Hand coded resume

This is my hand coded resume it took me a long time but it was relatively easy. I is not very fancy but i took a while making sure the lines were set up right.

This is the resume views in the safari

My first website

This was my first website. It took me a while to get a hang of i think its something I just need more practice on as we go I think ill get better.  But it was cool being able to do it on my own.

This is my final piece mounted. The colors in my final are a lot better then the other prints that I did they are a lot brighter and more vibrant. Im happy with my final piece. I had some struggles with the whiskers on the walrus but it just took me some extra time and it turned out okay. For the vector image I created the title of my magazine. The scanned image was the walrus and for the photograph I actually used a picture taken of the sky as the background with created a nice gradient.

For our final project I did a test print and this was it. Im glad that i chose to do a test print cause it was a lot different from what I was expecting and it gave me a chance to fix things. For example there is a huge line down the side which i could not figure out what it was from but i realized that it was from the photo that i uploaded. The extra few dollars really helped out.