Dashboard by Karl's Design Comp
Well, for the design I was going for a simple and clean design, mainly do the the diversity of patrons. The design is very age neutral and was all created in Photoshop and Illustrator. All the logo's are vector images and everything is its own seperate layer. The client really liked the simplicity and ease of site navigation and the basic color scheme. The design is more function over form but still has depth and texture. I will probably end up removing the sub-global navigation due to difficulty of implementation combined with the local navigation.
While I do not know how much CSS I will be implementing do to the fact we are using divs and the site is primarily image driven. That being said every site will have CSS used in at least its simplest form. I know I will be using CSS for text in the site. CSS is a great way to set up font hierarchy and text color and alignment. Besides that I am not sure what I will be trying to do within my style sheet. Because the site will be using divs I am actually not sure how much will be controlled by the style sheet for the simple fact that most of my previous experience with style sheets is controlling tables and layout.
Templates seem very useful after our assignments where we created them. Since so Much of my site has key repeating elements I will definitely attempt to use templates to their fullest so as to not have to keep recreating the basic design. Library items are similar but not the same. If I understand them correctly it's for page elements so that they can be easily reused over and over in other portions of the website. I am going to try and use library items for navigation, header, and footer information. Since I do not have as much experience with library items it will be lesson in what I can and can't do with them.
I honestly do not have any idea if I will be using using the ability to automate repetitive tasks. I feel like if I was more comfortable with the feature I would use it all the time, like how I have Photoshop shortcuts all memorized. That being said I am not that familiar with the feature and it feels almost cumbersome with it's design. I will have to see exactly how much similar work I am going to have to do before I will attempt using it. I guess I just don't like the design of the feature.
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