The past few days I have been working on making sure that my corporate identity and style guide is finished. I now feel less behind than I was before. Now that I have this out of the way I can concentrate on my CD's only. This is a good thing for me, as I can quickly design several templates for my CD work all in one day (hopefully). After I have my designs then I will feel more on track. I still have not started any work on my CD and I am beginning to feel it grasping me and pulling me back. The reason for this is because I have somehow managed to lose the CD with music on.
At first I saw this as a drawback, but I actually found it quite useful as I was able to concentrate on completing my style guide, rather than starting on my CD's and forgetting about it. This messed up my time plans big time. Maybe next time I should have a space for losing items for the assignment, as well as adding time for the fire alarm the day before deadline day.
Even though I thought my corporate identity elements were almost complete, I still had to change the colour of my logo. It had "Mickey Mouse" colours, coming from Steve. I do agree with him though. I had chosen my favourite colours, rather than some that were more suitable. I do feel that my colours represent ambience, but the next assignment I must let go of these two colours. They have conflict issues.
My new colour is just another shade of blue. Changing the colour was fine and dandy, but changing the logo and screen shooting it all for web use took ages. This was something else I had not planned. I feel that I need to make my time plans more flexible. I will do this by adding spare time, maybe an hour or two, at the end of each college day, for things like the above. This will give me the time to change anything that goes unexpectedly.
Over the weekend I also created a new header for my website, as the old one was too much like a banner. I had received this comment from several people, as well as my own opinion. I admit, I shouldn't have uploaded it and said it was completed. In future I should make sure that it looks exactly how it's supposed to, and only upload it when I feel it is finished. I also used some of Steve's dreaded Photoshop tools to make the website that bit more ambient. Filing white space up with images that are not needed isn't how we have been taught to do things, however I do feel that this image is sort of ambietic, thus I decided to use it anyway.
My final header now looks like this:
You can visit my finished website on: www.marcpugh.co.uk/corpid/index.html. Feedback is still welcome ;)
4 comments:
You have managed to get the site divide to saty in one place now and from the last time I viewed it there is a 100% improvement. Just one small thing is the fonts change sizes from page to page. This is usually due to some fonts being in point size and some being in pixel height. As long as you make them all the same it will solve your problem.
Well done on getting there, it's nice and crisp/clean and easy to read.
Thank you Dean. I will look into the text problem. Mite be something to do with the CSS styles for each page. Hopefully it will be an easy task to solve.
Only one problem I have found with your site, which is the headers look the exaqct same as the text so maybe just making them bold or something to make them stand out a bit more
The header is the same font as the body text, and is already bold. Can you clarify what you mean Jamie?
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