Today we started trying to code. Some aspects came simple, but others were difficult. I expected it to be easer than this since my pages aren’t too complex. Theres so many little parts and pieces that go into making one thing work.
Emily Gauger
Today in class we had our final critique. Everybody had some really great projects! I wish I would’ve been able to do more with mine but I ran out of time and didn’t have all the skills to get it looking right. But I think I did pretty good for my ability and the time I had. I’m happy its over though!
During class today, we toured Hudl and then listened to the final candidate speak. The tour was really cool, it was really interesting to see what kind of work they do and how they do it. It seems like a really fun place to work!! I would love to intern there or work there in the future, it seems really great.
The candidate we listened to today was Johnny Lee and and he was my favorite candidate out of all of them. He seemed really comfortable speaking and had some really great projects and ideas. I liked him a lot.
I do wish the tour would’ve been last week or two weeks ago though so that we could ask any final questions before our critique Wednesday. I’m still a little confused with out to make the gif work and upload correctly so I’m a little nervous for the crit but we’ll see how it goes!
Today was a work day for our portfolio site and animation. My portfolio site is pretty much finished. I just have to finish the animation so I can link it to the site and then I think it will be good to go. For the animation, I actually figured out how to do part of it today so thats a start. hopefully I’ll be able to finish it and make it look decent in time. Fingers crossed
Today in class we had a work day to work on our portfolio site and animation. I made fairly good progress before I came to class on the site as far as customizing goes. I figured out how to add my projects. That is the base of what I have left to do for the site. I need to add the URLs to the projects and get that updated. With my animation, I talked to Colleen about it, and what I’ve been trying to do forever she said was pretty much impossible so that was pretty neat. But at least now I know what I can do and how to do that so it shouldn’t be too bad. Only 3 more classes to go…
Today in class we downloaded and installed our wordpress theme! Mine was complicated to upload so I haven’t had a chance to customize it yet at all, I need to experiment with it this weekend. We also went to see Fred Dust speak and it was a really interesting talk! He had a lot of really great things to say.
In class today we talked about themes and server space. We looked at a lot of themes to see what kind we liked and what we may want to do. I’m not sure what specific one I want yet but I have a list of them going. I know I want it to be really simplistic and light and have a lot of white space. I’m excited to see what it looks like when its done! As for the animation, I still have not figured out how to make it work and its really frustrating. Hopefully I’ll figure it out soon enough.
In class we did a mini critique over our animations. I didn’t have anything to show because I tried making it 3 different ways but I couldn’t get any of them to work. I need to experiment more with different ways and see if I can figure it out.
Today in class we talked about our animations. I mapped out exactly what I want to animate. Im having a hard time still trying to figure out how to actually create it. Hopefully I can figure something out by Wednesday so I have something to show.
Since last class, I have made changes to my website design. Its still not exactly how I want it to be, but its about as good as I can get it for now. I like it all better than what it was. I decided that I want to animate the nesting locations map and have pop up windows appear with more information about them. I also want to have some text slide in and appear, my numbers to look like a running tally board, and for one of my long angled images to slide up in a paralax effect. I can’t tell yet if this all is going to be easy or hard. I hope its fairly simple. Im excited to see how it turns out!