So I had my presentation for web design and apart from the fact that it took about 5 of the longest minutes of my life for it too load of my pen-drive, I think that it went ok. I am pleased that mike and others liked the opening page to my website, the interesting shape which displays some images of my work, however he did say that this  could of been continued through out my website. I agree as I found that with most of the websites shown and mine, most people had square thumbnails to show their work, where as I maybe could of used some of the shapes from my index page. Also from viewing other people's pages I kinda wished I had dabbled into Lightbox as this just added a real proffessional element to any website but with the time constraint this might of ended up in me not actually having a finished website! Overall though I was quite pleased with the feedback and found the session really useful. 

So now that the presentation is looming seems about the right time to write a reflection on the web design module. Well from not having a clue and no experience of web design 6 weeks ago to where I am, I would say I am quite happy with my website. Obviously there are little things I would change about it like the layout of the tabs so that they were spaced exactly on each page but in the time space I think it would of always been quite hard to produce a perfect website. I think the overall concept of simplicity within my design works as when it came to developing it on fireworks and dreamweaver it definatly paid off. I would of liked to include more of my work into the website however as I think some of my better pieces are missing but I didnt have the majority of my work on my mac so I just had to work with what I had. I enjoyed using fireworks in this module and found that it and dreamweaver together were quite rewarding to use. The process of trying to link up your pages and get mouse over's to work seemed long and frustrating but once I had got it done the programs seemed a lot simpler and it was worth the effort to see my website running and all linked up. Overall I am quite happy with my website, however I just wish that we had had a longer time than 6 weeks to produce them as towards the end I started to get more into the project once I knew how to use the programs. I also think that the idea of using blogs has been really effective in this module as you get the chance to follow other people's work and see their influences, and if you were unsure of anything you could look at some of their ideas which would be really helpful and point you in the right direction.

This is my final page my contact page. This was a kind of spur of the moment idea that I really liked using the mouse over option to bring up my details, and using symbols to represent home address, email, and telephone number. It seemed quite a simple idea which matched the general all round feel of my website.

This is my illustration page, I have just used the simple mouse over option again and the text at the bottom of the page also changes, telling you which project you are looking at.

About me page. Basically on this page I just put a bit about what i was up to before Northumbria and a few programs that I have experience with. Also i put what my main interests were in graphics and how i prefer to work with illustration so anybody who was visiting my website would know that this is my speciality. I made a mouse over feature on this page just to make it less boring so I stuck in one of my illustrations and when you mouse over the text appears.

This is before you mouse over ^

...and after.

Index Page, when you mouse over the shape various images of past projects appear. This is just to give the user a idea of my work straight away, plus i think the shape looks interesting and makes you want to investigate more.