Design Project - snapfish.com

Visit the snapfish.com website.
Locate the description, what is it?
Locate the keywords, what are they? How many keywords did you find?
Is the description appropriate for the website? Why or why not?
Looking at the number of keywords and words in the description, is it an appropriate number or are there too many or too few? Why?

Use a search engine to look up the words photo quality paper
Click on the first link in the list of results. What is the URL for the website you selected? What is the title of the page?
View the source code for that page.
Locate the description, what is it?
Locate the keywords, what are they? How many keywords did you find?
Is the description appropriate for the website? Why or why not?
Looking at the number of keywords and words in the description, is it an appropriate number or are there too many or too few? Why?

Design Project - Adobe Site of the Day

At the Adobe website, click on the Company link then Customer Showcase to display the Adobe Site of the Day. Click on the link to view the site selected as the site of the day.

Explore the site and answer the following questions about the site:
* What are the titles of the pages that you visit in the site? Write down the title names as you navigate through the site. Do the titles of each page accurately reflect the page content? Expand with details why or why not.
* Is the navigation structure clear?
* How is the navigation structure organized? How do you move around the site from one page to another and get to the places you would like to see?
* Why do you think this site was selected by Adobe as the site of the day?

Banner Audience & Purpose for Storyboard

I look forward to learning about the plans for your personal website banner. Your intended audience and purpose are important elements in creating your banner which is similar to the introduction of your website. Please make sure that you have your response posted and your banner storyboard completed before class begins today so that you can focus on creating your banner.

Logo Review and Redesign

Objectives
• Identify aspects of redesign and its importance in web design.
• Reflect on a digital image and identify what could be improved.
• Create a storyboard for the redesign of an image.
• Modify an existing image

Review your work in reference to your goals, intentions, and design constraints from your Storyboard blog posting. You will be completing a redesign write-up and a new logo

Possible steps or questions that will help in redesigning a product include the following:
• Meeting initial focus, purpose, and audience
• Changing focus, purpose, or audience
• Applying good design principles

Complete worksheet: Logo review and redesign

Individually review your own logos to redesign them.

After the review, create storyboards of your proposed redesign changes to create new logos.

Build your redesigned logos.

Building a Logo

Objective - Develop a digital logo based on a storyboard
You will be producing your logo, based on your storyboard created yesterday in class.

Activity steps
1. Look through your storyboards as a guide or plan for creating your logo
2. Select canvas size for logo. Typical sizes are 79 × 51 pixels (very small), 150 × 25 pixels, 125 × 144 pixels, and 243 × 203 pixels (fairly large for web purposes)
3. Build your logos.
4. Post your logo to share with each other.

Logo Storyboard

Create a storyboard for a logo that represents you as an individual. You may use grid paper or plain paper.The storyboard can be in black and white, with colors labeled. If you create your storyboard with colored pens or pencils, use colors that match the design.

Post your responses, thoughts, and ideas for the following regarding your logo storyboard
• Indicate the intended focus, purpose, and audience of your design.
• Indicate whether your design illustrates horizontal symmetry, vertical symmetry, diagonal symmetry, radial symmetry, or asymmetry. Explain why you selected one style over another.
• Indicate the scale you are using. In other words, if your paper design is larger or smaller than the final product, say what size the finished product will be. Professional designers usually illustrate logos larger than the finished product so details are easy to see.
• Indicate any other design decisions you made and state why.

10/14 GIF, JPEG, & PNG Post Discussion & Sample Images

Review the postings of your classmates assigned yesterday to define, describe characteristics as well as the pros and cons of the three file types for graphics. In your own blog, create a new post discussing how the file types differ and when it is appropriate to use each type of file.

Search the internet to find and save at least one sample of each type of graphic: GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Each student should have different images. You will need to save all of your work in two ways, as a set of individual graphic files for later use and in a blog posting that will include notes about the graphics. The graphics need to be from three different websites and should not come from image collections on websites such as photobucket and google images. You will need to get the following information for each image:
1. Filename-what is the name of the file that you have selected
2. File type-JPEG, GIF, PNG
3. File size
4. Website address-copy the complete URL of the website of where you found the image
5. Describtion of the image
6. Date of image or copyright year
7. Copyright holder-who would you need to contact in order to request permission to use the image

Post the image and the information about each image in one new posting before class tomorrow.