After entering the Adobe TV site (link above) you should see an icon with resources at the top of the window. Download these and install on your D-drive.
Note: You will not see resources unless you have sign up with Adobe TV (for free).
I will walk around and speak to students and assist.
Make sure to upload it tothis link on MyKangan before the class is over. Upload complete and incomplete works. You can always add to it and re-upload your work.
ICAWEB424A Evaluate and Select a Web Hosting Service
Last Week
Last week we discussed aspects of social networking and how we relate to it. Let us look at the class discussion in the Forum on MyKangan. (The link requires for you to be signed into MyKangan).
Some of the discussion points and evaluations:
Facebook
How interactive is the site?The site is very interactive as a user can communicate with others through many ways (e.g messaging, chat, comments, statuses, posts, sharing media) 9/10
How intuitive is the navigation? Facebook isnt very inituitive, especially for beginners new users, there isnt really much of a tutorial on how to connect with friends, upload images, posts, etc. And the navigation is a little bit hard to use. 6/10
How responsive is the site (speed)? Facebook loads very fast on a desktop/laptop but i find it tends to be slow and laggy on a smart phone and can take awhile to load/refresh. 7/10
Advertisments: are there frequent ads, pop-ups or spam? The ads are all interesting to the user and related to a user’s “likes” (which could be books, movies, games, etc). 7/10
Visuals, layout and graphics: Facebook has a boring blue and white colour scheme, although the layout may be modern and clean it isnt very appealing, its too simple and boring. The website is very text based (especially if you have a lot of “friends” that post alot of statuses, etc), but it does have some images if someone has uploaded them. 4/10
How interactive is the site? Facebook is very interactive when it comes to interacting with other users. You can engage them in different ways from chatting to posting on their ‘wall’. I find the wall feature a bit corny and there is no wall anyway, so it is just a page in a text editing software. The fact that you can communicate with others, post songs, documents, videos, photos, graphics and links is excellent. Interactivity:9/10
How intuitive is the site? Facebook is not very intuitive. When you are new to Facebook you do not quite know what to do. It is rather boring to look at and you cannot understand the navigation easily. You get better at it through experience. I would rate it: 5/10
How responsive is the site? It is pretty fast. Mostly happy: 9/10
Advertisements? I do not like ads, I hate pop-ups and that goes even more for spam. Facebook is good in regards to ads, their ads are targeted and generally of interest to me.8/10
Visuals? What visuals? It looks like a text editor! Very boring in layout, in use of images and in colours: 2/10
Federico’s verdict: 6.7/10!
Linked In
Linked In is not very interactive because the site is now dated and the only interactions are when you email someone or they contact you. The topics of interest are not very regular and there is not alot of activity on a daily basis. 6/10
The navigation is also dated and like many SNS sites it takes time to navigate around the site to get used to it. 5/10
Linked In site speed is fast and there is not a page load time problem. 8/10
Linked In doesn’t have ads although I have noticed that they are promoting ads like facebook style ads to appear in the near future. All members have the ability to advertise their own business. 3/10
The visuals and graphics of Linked In are also dated and in need of an upgrade. You cannot edit your own images to how you want them to look and the whole page layout is boring. 4/10
On Linked In you cannot search for a person unless you are logged in. This makes it good for privacy reasons although if you want to use the paid version you can see who has been searching for you which seems to contradict the privacy aspects of Linked In. 5/10
Linked In is 80% text based and 20% images. 2/10
Paul’s verdict: 33/70!
Social Web in HTML
We will look at ways to include content in a Social Networking website and how to incorporate content from your website on another site.
You can use HTML to embed sound, video, websites and other objects.
Iframe
Iframe is a command that allows you to embed a website or a video into a frame. Example for code:
Uncle Sam Wants You, WWI Propaganda Poster for US Army recruits, Design by James Montgomery Flagg, 1916, image found at: Live Auctioneers
Massive Attack – The Essential Mix
Fruity Design – This is great for a menu, very appetizing thumbnails – found at: WeddingPhotography.com
Illustration by Jessie Ford, found on DzineBlog.com
Work by Justin Anderson
Some of us have there most enjoyable moments in nature at the beach, Photo by rivediamoci on morgueFiles
Examples of Output and Display for web-content. Image: live.surveyshack.com
Work by Jo W
Photo by Seemann on morgueFile.com
A Beautiful Piece by Aerosol found on his Facebook
Setting the grid up.
Illustration by Kate Miller, found on DzineBlog.com
Photo by omdur on morgueFile
Lines and Gradients- Courtesy of: psdtuts+
The swirls in the image are made up of numerous lines. Courtesy of: www.openprocessing.org
The gentle curve of the river and the light green tones of the grass give this image a calming feel. The montains and the clouds have a less calming effect. Image: courtesy of Icon Photography School – http://www.photographyicon.com/line/
Courtesy of The Art of Mass Effect Universe’, 2012
Text and Shapes – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Klafferty.com
Multimedia Production Cycle – This image is under the Creative Common Agreement, you can use it but will need to reference this site: www.classoffederico.wordpress.com
Contemporary design in style of Construcitvism by Teo Brito found at LauraGreen92 – click image for more information and link to her blog
Britons, Lord Kitchener Wants You! Propaganda poster design from WWI by Alfred Leere. Image: courtesy of WorldWarEra.com
Courtesy of The Art of Mass Effect Universe’, 2012
Milk Poster – Swiss International Style Reference – by Annabel Stephen Salip
Swiss travel poster from 1934 by Herbert Matter – Source: http://swisstype.wordpress.com/work/
Table of Content from Textbook – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
Photo by matthewbridges on morgueFile.com
Study – Lines and Grace Kelly – by Federico Viola photo: courtesy of GettingCheeky.com and curved lines wallpaper: courtesy of FreeFever.com
Constructivism Reference – by Lylah Livingston
Photo by mconnors on morgueFile
Jenga, photo courtesy of: Design-Crit.com
Light Streaks – Courtesy of: PhotoshopEssentials
Grassy Rabbits
Italian movie poster found on Abduzeedo.com
Swiss International Style – Joseph Müller-Brockmann – Beethoven – found at www.designhistory.com
Study – Lines and Grace Kelly – by Federico Viola photo: courtesy of GettingCheeky.com and curved lines wallpaper: courtesy of FreeFever.com
Illustrator unknown – found at: Ephemera – World of Rare Books
Image Source: www.photoshopessentials.com
ruthworkx -http://ruthworkx.files.wordpress.com
Good Morning! Photo: wallyir, from: morgueFile.com
Photo by DTL on morgueFiles
Layers in Photoshop are like a Collage of images stuck on top of each other…
This is a template for a business website found at TemplateMonster. It is interesting in the sense that it breaks up the main image as part of the navigation. The sound it comes with is annoying.
Photo by hotblack on morgueFile.com
Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist, Louvre, Paris, Image: courtesy of A World History of Art – www.all-art.org
The Glossy Reflection is transparent on top and gets whiter towards the bottom.
Couple found at http://frenchbydesign.blogspot.com.au
Example of applied changes
Screenshot – 82 Everyone is a Marketer by Seth Godin from What’s Your Story by Joyce Hostyn
Outlined text changed in size and colours dropped into the individual letters with Eyedropper tool using LMB + Alt
Work by Egon Schiele, found at Mom.org
Steel Curves, Image: courtesy of flickr.com, photographer: Margeois.
Geese in Ameland, Photo by Frans Schouwenburg
Your Lipstick Needs You, an entertaining take by Digital Media Artist Samantha Cain. Courtesy of: Samantha Cain, http://www.behance.net/samanthacain
Close-up at Fed Square, Federico Viola 2013
Based on photo by dhester from morgueFile.com
Illustration by Gary Neill found on P.A.P.-Blog – http://garyneill.com/ http://garyneill.tumblr.com/
Photo by frenchbyte on morgueFile
Illustration: Tavis Coburn – Illustration for for an article predicting trends in Apple’s mobile strategy. Found on: TavisCoburn.com
The grass layer has been turned into a clipping mask with the shape of the rabbit below.
The concept was used on the German side as well with this ‘Auch du sollst beitreten zur Reichswehr’ [You too should join the German Army], design by Julius Engelhard, Image: courtesy of mental_floss
Illustration: Jamie McKelvie – Art Brut Record
Poppies – Vector art Federico Viola based on photo by hotblack from morgueFile
Photo by mcconnors on morgueFile
Vista Lighting Effect – Courtesy of: Tutorial9
From ‘Henri’s Walk to Paris’ 1962 – children’s book by Saul Bass Found at: Brainpickings.org
The underlined text and insertion point at end of the word indicates that you are still in the type mode.
Typographic with Colours and Photos – The use of large numbers is effective and the low opacity of the boxes works, personally, I find it looks a bit dated- found at: JuxtaPost.com
Illustration by Tavis Coburn found on DzineBlog.com
Based on a photo by delboysafa from morgueFile.com
The Face by drfranken found on ChromoArt.de
I Want You – Emily Strange, The lovable Emily Strange came to life in 1991, designed by Nathan Carrico for Santa Cruz Skateboards. She is referred to as a counterculture icon. I would just call her a sceptic. Image found at: Kollectable Kaos
Screenshot of Endless Alphabet 2, courtesy of AppsPlayground.com
Colourful Table of Content – Ribbons in Primary Colours – found at: LifeBlue.com
Based on photo by xandert found on morgueFile
Text and Shapes – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
Mosaic of Sofia Coppola – by Maurizio Galimberti – www.mauriziogalimberti.it
Photo by ariadna on morgueFile
Photo Montage by SGlider12 on Webdesign.org – Click image for great Gimp tutorial
Only practice will help you learn! Photo by BreonWarwick on morgueFile
Illustration by Jessie Ford, found on DzineBlog.com
Illustration: Jamie McKelvie – Suburban Glamour Comic Series
Text-based Table of Content – Very Graphic and Black and White- found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
He loves OHS! – Photo by Karpati Gabor on morgueFile
Colours, Numbers and Boxes – very happy and alive, personally I do not like the distortion of the word content – found at: Flickr
Pink Ribbon Day – Swiss International Style Reference – by Hwan Rochanabuddhi
What Time is it Now? by King_Bobbles
“Step into my office” Source: The Age, click image for link
Source: morgueFile, Photo by matei
From ‘Henri’s Walk to Paris’ 1962 – children’s book by Saul Bass Found at: Brainpickings.org
‘For Great Road Trips: Switzerland’ Poster by Herbert Matter in (Swiss) International Style – Source: http://swisstype.wordpress.com/work/
Image from morgueFile by lemai13
The calming effect of horizontal lines, image: courtesy of flickr.com, Photographer: jaikdean
Based on image by hotblack on morgueFile.com – F.Viola
Found at Inc.com
Photo by dharder on morgueFiles.com
Experimental Photomontage by Robert Heinecken
Screenshot from What’s Your Story by Joyce Hostyn
Finding the Right Candidate for a Job… – Photo AdamRiley from www.projectnoah.org
Based on photo by hotblack from morgueFile.com
Using the Reflect tool (o) to reflect the i downwards as if it has collapsed in front.
Vertical lines of a dark fence, image courtesy of p.ic – Photo Internet Collection – www.photoic.wordpress.com, photographer: Federico Viola
Michael Pointing in GTA V – Courtesy of Rockstar
Illustration by Gary Neill found on Dzineblog.com – http://garyneill.com/ http://garyneill.tumblr.com/
Concept for Gallery Screnshot
Luminescent Lines – Courtesy of: PSDLearning
Peace- Swiss International Style Reference – by Maryam Chananeh