Designing is not so easy, is it? September 30, 2008
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I’ve chopped and changed my mind a million and one times (and that’s not an exageration either) about what I want to do for this project. I suppose at a very high level, I want to make the most of this subject (and ultimately this MIM course), to learn to be a “designer” as opposed to a “developer” (or maybe a happy mixture of both). But with a world of choices at my disposal, I’ve learnt that “designing” is not so easy….. And that’s my ephiphany for the week.
In the process of this ephiphany, however, I have to admit that I have learnt a great many things about what “web developers” use out there in the world wide web, even if it’s just glimpses. For example, this week I’ve just discovered jQuery. Don’t know much about it yet to write about here, but it’s essentially a javascript library you can use to for “document traversing, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions” (read more bout jQuery here). I plan to use jQuery to create a popup submenu (ie, when you hover over a menu link, a submenu pops up). I found a tutorial on how to do this using jQuery.
Anyways, in the interest of “getting good grades”, I need to bite the bullet and just get on with it.
Looking back, I started of with a web site for a (real) removalist business in Sydney. But I was lacking inspiration, and so I decided on a web site for me instead. But then I decided that was a bit too lame as I didn’t particularly have anything interesting to put in it. And now finally, combining my interest in having a visually appealing design and learning javscript and php, and my past-time interest of eating and drinking, I’ve created a fictituos Bar/Restaurant that I will be creating a web site for.
Here’s what I have so far. It’s called the “La Di Bar“ (as in La di dah). The bar has a fab restaurant and cocktail and wine selection. On friday’s and saturday’s, the party continues into the night with a live band or DJ. You can become a member and receive a monthly newsletter of any upcoming special events.
And this, is my DMT project…
Hey Sarah
I can totally empathise with the process you are going through. Especially the bit about the designing, trying to fit it altogether is just so huge. I’m finding it hard to just get on with the technologies themselves without trying to become an expert in designing. Anyway your page is looking fantastic – is that a template? Also I’d be interested to find out how easy it was to get lightbox working in your gallery? Interestingly it came up at work today and it is what DET are using on the intranet for images and videos.
Hi Sarah,
I really like what you’ve come up with so far for your fictitious bar/restaurant site. I’m keen to see the final product.
Cheers,
Alistair.