by admin on January 11, 2010
My last post that I made over a month ago titled “It seems to be coming together…”, where I detailed who FilmBet was coming along quite nicely ( which it was). My exams started shortly after that so my focused changed. Then after exams I started playing some online games ( Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3) oldies but goodies .
I cannot pinpoint the real reason that I have placed FilmBet on the backburner, one theory is that since the coding is almost done and I have reached the design aspect which is not my favorite.
Well, its back on again.. I won’t continue this post as I want to get back to Filmbet
by admin on December 6, 2009
Quite nicely if I must say so myself. In my last post I made FilmBet (FB) known to the public. So far so good, the feedback that I have received has been encouraging. People seems to be understanding quickly what they need to do and are able to do it. Which is the must important thing. Before design and all that jazz. Speaking of design; One and two comments from people have hinted that the design needs work. Which I have to agree, but I was following the guide of just releasing something, get the basics going then I will focus on the design later. I think this was to better way to go and I’m glad that I took this approach as currently I have a functioning website like looks lame, but than an awesome looking website that does nothing.
With encouragement from a little friend, I decided to take a stab at the design. Designing is by far my weakest aspect of Web Development as I’m not a creative person to begin with.
I got started with this tutorial which helped my understanding of MANY Photoshop functions, but i eventually got fed up with it so I didn’t continue. I figured I need to come up with any design that I like ( really?!) and try my best to some how design it. Using the recommendation of Andrew Hype ( Pick Project) I got ‘Balsamiq Mockups‘ and started wireframing my design. In no time, I had something that I liked and could move along with.
Now, the hard Part using the devil that is Photoshop to create the layout. ( My history with Photoshop hasn’t been good, I initially tried Photoshop 6/7 way back then. It was embarrassing; I couldnt do anything I mean ANYTHING; Flash forward some years I bought The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques with hopes of learning and start designing. That again failed. YouTube brought me to the point where I was actually able to create something). I applied the same principles from the tutorial I started the other night and things just flowed.
PS: Guides is simply the most important aspect of any Photoshop design. So I came up with my mockup, which I am incredibly pleased with.
A quick note on the coding aspect; I finished a major hurdle in the tallying of votes etc. So the coding is approximately 80% finished!! Just little glitches that need to be handled.
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