Jugglers re-work

This is where i first started to go with my re-work, instead of making the entire background juggling balls, I just made it a strip, so it's not entirely full on colour.



I wanted to create a different navigation for part of the site, so wanted the user to have to hover over a juggling ball and on each different segment it changes what it says for each product etc.



I then decided that I would combine the two ideas but when I put the juggling balls as the background with the original colours it didn't look very good, or right, especially because of the such dark background. This is why I decided to completely re-do it with new darker colours and personally I prefer it.



Thinking that it wouldn't look right putting pictures and text directly over the juggling balls I decided to create a box and partly opaque background for it.

Jugginling Website

This is a picture from a Juggling website called oddballs:

http://www.oddballs.co.uk/?gclid=CJmaopSHuJ8CFReY2AodKjtw0Q

For part of the website they have a series of looping clips in which people are demonstrating the different products the shop has to offer, they are also links to the pages where they can buy the products by clicking on the videos.

I think this is quite an interesting idea, as it makes the site a lot more interesting to look at and draws you in. I intend to try and use something similar in my website.

Bit of a change in Direction

After finding out my results for first term and having a chat with Shaun I have decided to change my plans for the Jugglers website which I am currently making.
This is where i have got with it so far:



Seeing as it it getting a wee bit boring, I have decided to try and remake it a bit different, maybe still using this in part of it.

2 Week Website Project

As we have to create a website for an existing shop near by, my first thoughts were for a skate shop in Nottingham called Non - stop, especially as they have a really badly laid out website. Some of the parts f the website are very technical, but visually it's a bit crappy. Also, there are a hell of a lot of things that they sell at that shop, so it would take quite a long time to make.

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I have therefore settled on the shop Jugglers in the lace market.

This is their current website which is currently under production by a local Nottingham company.

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I've started on some wireframes and will post them when I've picked one and started plumping it out.

Non web designer 3

Tim Burton
I'm not entirely sure if Time Burton counts as a designer or not, but I have chosen to do him anyway. Ever since a young age I have loved The Nightmare Before Christmas... I know... but how the whole thing looks is absolutely amazing! Again, like Vivienne Westwood, I like the fact that you can tell apart all of his animated films and short from anything else, yet they still don't quite have the exact same feel all the time.
As we learnt last year, he was not the first to use the style that he does, the sort of twisted and strangely shaped look. Yet his is still vastly different to those which influenced him, and you would never mistake one for the other.
Being a fan of MOST of Burton's work, I fell that it will influence the work I produce by trying to stylise some aspects of it based on his work. This will only be done where it is necessary and applicable though. It's not as if I'm going to go out of my way just to get a minor reference to him in.
Tim Burton manages to make some incredible films, but most couldn't more different from each other (apart from the animated films), for example, Big Fish and Batman Returns, two of my favourites of his. And even though he seems to have a bit of an unhealthy crush or relationship with Jonny Dep, I will be looking forward to and influenced by his films for years to come. I should think that this will show in some pieces of my work also.

Non web designer 2

Richard Rogers
I have chosen Richard Rogers as my second non web designer. The main reason I chose Richard is because he has sculpted so many skylines now it is incredible. Also I have always been a fan of the millennium dome, mainly for how much different it is to anything, not only in London, but the world.

This is Terminal 4 at Madrid-Barajas Airport. Normally airport terminals are just clinical, straight up and down, with nothing else to them. I mean I would go to this Airport just to see the terminal, then fly back.
Richard Rogers has managed to make spectacular things from usually mundane and boring sites or tasks. One thing that is definitely not mundane or boring, is one of the projects his firm is in charge of at the moment, designing tower 3, which will stand where the twin towers used to be, and will serve as the new world trade centre.

This should be magnificent when finished.

From Richard Rogers work, I take the knowledge that not all of your work has to be a hit straight away, as the millennium dome wasn't liked by most when it was first built, but most people now have managed to warm to it more, so much they keep finding different uses for it so it doesn't just get knocked down like it was planned to be from the start.

Non web designer 1

Vivienne Westwood
I chose Vivienne Westwood as one of my designers as she is part of one of the biggest design aspects of the world, clothing, yet she is still so different, and you tell a piece of her clothing a mile off, even if it is a simple piece. This influences me greatly, as to have such a widely recognisable and desired look is what ever designer strives for. Particularly I like the more extravagant pieces she makes, as they truly are nothing like what anyone else has or will ever do.
Another thing I think is brilliant about her, is that she doesn't take any crap from anybody. This is best shown by her walking out of the Sex and the City film premier, for which she created a wedding dress, after only 10 minutes "publicly criticising the clothing featured as being frumpy and boring". Not exactly the approach to take if a client doesn't like what I design for them I know, but still, you have to admire it.
Vivienne Westwood creates her pieces in different collections. This could be taken into thought when it comes to web design, as you don't want to make everything exactly the same all the time. Taking a fresh look at things every so often would help freshen my designs and make them a bit more creative.
Another thing to take from Vivienne Westwood would be to not just follow the trends of the time because you know people are going to think that it's ok. You have to take a chance and become the leader of trends, not the follower of one. This will make work more well known and in demand than the wannabe copiers.

Waterfall and Whirlpool software development models.

Waterfall
The waterfall development model is designed so that you only have to go through every part of the design process once. For each and every step you have to make sure that every little thing is finished before proceeding onto the next. The greatest strength of this method is the fact that you have to be very thorough and analyse every part of each section because it will be the only chance you get before moving onto the next part. It is also argued that it makes the development of a project cheaper as it is said to be quicker. this is because as each problem develops, it should have been found at its most basic stage, and therefore at its easiest to fix. This in turn makes the whole process more efficient.

Whirlpool
In the whirlpool development model you begin the development at one point which you keep cycling back to. With this model you constantly re-evaluate and re-develop all aspects of your design until you are happy with it all, instead of each piece individually one after the other. The downfall of this model however is that it takes quite a lot of time to keep going back over the same aspects over and over improving them each time. This also makes it hard to time manage as it is hard to say how many more cycles it will take to complete the product, unlike the waterfall method, where you can clearly see how much of the project is complete and what is left to do.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Personally I think that the Whirlpool method of development will work best when making a website. This is because it is very hard to get things 100% perfect in each stage so that you can progress onto the next. Also, as you are constantly getting new feedback from the client and others, different parts will need to be changed from each stage. This will really scrap the waterfall method from use.