WEB DESIGN AND I

For almost the past two months I've been taught on how to create a web site in HTML and Dream-weaver.  Throughout my whole process with Web Design I found out that it can be rough at times.  There have been a couple of times where I would want to put a boarder around a table or even placing a video and it would either be put in the wrong spot or not even show up.  When these events happen of course I get mad and want to punch the screen on the computer, but  I hold my temper and I gradually get up and walk away for a few moments.  Me personally, I believe that web design is fun and exciting, but not when you are on a short time span.  That is where I believe that I loose creativity, because I know I can do better and would do better but with the time span given it is hard to balance Web Design and working thirty-five hours at a job.  Oh well I will do the best I can and do want I need to get done with the best work and creativity that I can give.  Here are two links to sites that I have created in the first month;Web Site Accessibility,  Stan Lee.

Graphic Design and Comic books

Recently i've just bout four comic books gearing up for the latest Marvel movie that is coming out to theaters.  The one I'm currently working on is titled "Batman:The Killing Joke" (ya not Marvel but still a comic).  The book is based on the joker gearing up for his latest and most ruthful trick of all time which of course ends (*spoiler*) with Batman getting shot in the head and dies.  As I'm reading this I'm also looking at the detail of how the comic it self is drawn and how all the illustrations are viewed.  I can see that as they created this book they did a lot of illustration within the pictures to give a discrete look to keep the viewer / reader interested in the story.  Mainly with this book I can tell that they have used mainly the pen tool and the burn tool because throughout the story the burn gives it the evil / dark side of the story.   With Graphic Design getting more and more life like, in the future I'll be able set what I have learned and hopfully make my own story line with my own characters in the future.  So if Stan Lee, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland is reading this I will love to work for you and work with you and your illustrations.  

DREAMWEAVER

When it comes to certain type of programs you can either hate them or love it right at the start, but for some reason Dreamweaver seems to be one of those computer programs that you may hate it at first but but grows on you as you continue on using it.  At first I absolutely hated Dreamweaver and CSS. I thought that the standard HTML is the more easier way to go.  As time progressed and I operated on Dreamweaver and CSS more, It started to grow and still is growing on me.  In the beginning I couldn't imagine on how to put columns and working with columns inside HTML.   Now with Dreamweaver and CSS it makes it so much easier.  You can make columns inside a CSS tag and manipulate anyway that you would please.  In every site I create I use columns more than anything and i've also got to know CSS a little bit more.  I am able to control certain parts of my page in a short version rather than actually typing it all out in HTML and running a chance of not remembering where I had certain things when the time calls for changes.

PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop is the greatest thing that has been created for photo manipulation or just to edit.  Your can take a plain old photo of a person and choose different styles, brushes, colors, and some how make them look like if they are a picture into a puddle.  Photoshop in the real world is very handy, because when you are advertising for any type of business, in photoshop you can make a certain picture look so appealing that in the mind it makes people want to see what they have to offer.  I've personally been working with photoshop for about a year and a half and I absolutely love it, the ability to use it for your clients or if you just want to have fun it  is kinda like a more qeeky video game.

Flash

When it comes to flash, simple animation is quick and easy.  You can easily create what you want in illustrator, upload it in flash and you can manipulate or move it around any way that you would like.  With words you can do the same exact thing you can take a simple word like Gnarly and manipulate it so it will spell a even bigger word like PINEAPPLE OR STRAWBERRIES.  No matter what you create flash is used so you can advertise like advertisement banners on web-sites or even commercials in between shows.  It is a fun application and I enjoyed everyday I was working in the program.