Final blog…….
This will be my final blog for this year on the Digital Media course.
First of all I will just mention the web design side of the course which I am in the process of finishing. Its the first time I have used Dreamweaver and used HTML and CSS to build a web site. The main things I have learnt are how organised you need to be to make sure it builds up in a very logical progression and very methodical. Luckily I am a very organised person (sometimes to organised!).
Its important to save all your images with lowercase and no gaps in the first instance to save massive amounts of time later on changing them all! Its also important to remember to save all the images as either .jpg / gif / png24 and in WEB FORMAT.
Perhaps the most important aspect of all is to make mock ups of all your design pages before you start the design. I did this in Photoshop and I think it saved me massive amounts of time later on.
The fact that we designed in code rather than physically meant trying to visualise the design as you go along, its much easier to have a mock up in front of you for reference.
Reflections on the whole course; I have very much enjoyed the whole course and its been very useful for me to learn totally new softwares such as Premier Pro and Dreamweaver and it would be nice in the future if they were incorporated into the work I do for the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
The only reservations I personally have on the course is that I would have prefered to have had much more time to properly learn these two previously mentioned softwares properly. I found especially with the Dreamweaver that I felt unable to work on my own and constantly needed Liz’sa support because I didn’t know how to create a lot of the code to produce the web design I has drafted in mock ups. This is a personal preference but I would have prefered to have spent less time at the beginning of the course on developing creativity and more time learning the softwares. But I can understand why this time is useful to other students who perhaps have not spend much time being creative and building their confidence in this area.
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank Liz for all her help and support on the course and I have learnt a lot and been enthused by it all.
I would just like to mention the fact that I visited THE ARTS COLLEGE one day last week to see the students work and I was incredibly impressed by the work the BA Illustration Students had done, it was really professional and I would love to have half of their talent!
