Month 5: Principles of Production Process

Hey, I'm already at the end of another month. It's hard to believe since time has been flying by so fast. I've been thinking about doing some YouTube videos to go along with my blog. I'll put up a poll so you guys can help me decide. So basically, it's a lot of PDF's that I've done, as well as a newsletter.

Lab 3: Project Requirements, Information Architecture, and Presentation
In this lab (and for homework) we had to produce three documents. The first document was the Project Requirements, detailing what requirements were needed for the redesign project. These requirements were used to create a sitemap and wireframes for four pages of the new site. (Unfortunately, I chose a blog site, so I ended up doing over one hundred pages for the sitemap while my colleagues only ended up doing five or six pages. Still, it gave me some great experience in the subject.) Finally, we did a presentation (created a PowerPoint Document and stood up in front of the class, etc.) as if we were talking to the client about how we were going to redesign the site. The teachers gave us a lot of great information on how we should talk to the client, and also things that we shouldn't do. Below I've provided my Project Requirements and my Information Architecture documents. The PowerPoint slides are layered. Perhaps I'll make a video to show how the presentation was supposed to look. Anyhow, the site requirements document is not listed. It's basically the same thing as my Project Proposal except with different information.

Wire Frame

Site Map

Lab 4: Branded Documentation and the Email Template
This lab was incredibly fun. We were given a guided template in Photoshop where we had creative freedom to design a newsletter for ourselves and our company. I did the email template with ease. I ran into a problem, however, with my branded documentation. One of these documents required a signature, and you wouldn't be able to sign on the current template I had. So I redesigned my documentation and I liked the overall look and feel more. (This inspired the design of my email template.) So you can see the redesign in the following document. This is how all of my files will look from this point forward.

Invoice

Lab 5: Slice and Dice
Once the design was finished, we had to slice it. I went above and beyond. I sliced my template and made it function. I also custom-wrote my code, and uploaded it to the web. It doesn't work in a browser, however, and I speculate that's because of the JavaScript. I plan to redo the buttons as CSS and continue my testing. It's also mostly images right now. I'm going to see how I can do this with CSS instead. Click here to view the template online.

Lab 6: Marketing Plan
I finished the marketing plan, but I forgot to turn it in. I'm avoiding opening the document because you can see it hasn't been opened since the 20th. This could prove to be extremely useful so that the teacher will let me turn it in again. So please bear with me. It'll be uploaded later today.