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Here’s the website with content added and photos sized to fit. I chose this design because it was fully CSS and included some nice callout boxes. I also liked the palette of colors: melon and rich grey. These colors are in the artist’s work, yet create an subtle background that doesn’t detract from the work. The Continue reading One-Night Website the Final Part 7: Adding Content 1:00 am MST: I actually love staying up late at night; the house is quiet, the orange cat sleeps at my feet for company, Facebook goes wacky, the internet goes down…what? There’s a red light on my internet modem. Oh crap. I’ll think about that later. There’s still more to do before the fun part of Continue reading One-Night Website Part 6: Math & Design 12:00am MST: Now that the night is waning, I’m going to start making time constraints on this One-Night Website redesign. So–I am not going to even go into Photoshop — not yet, anyway. I’ll have to go right to code for the layout. As an intermediary, I think I’ll use Excel to set up a table-like Continue reading One-Night Website Part 5: Layout 10:00pm MST: So it’s been 3 hours since I started this One-Night Website redesign. The first hour I planned, then I procrastinated, then I finalized the main new sitemap with a 7-button nav bar. This post will be about breaking down the content into templates. First is a Home Page template that will be inviting, have keyword-rich Continue reading One-Night Website Part 4: Templates 9:00pm MST: I did the first version of the sitemap a few days ago. Here’s how: I took the keywords that received the largest effectiveness ratio between number of searches and number of occurrences and used as many as possible as navigation headers while keeping close to the intent of the client and her work. For Continue reading One-Night Website Part 3: Sitemap Create an entire working website mockup in one evening? Stress much? 7:00pm MST: I’d rather be watching “2012″ with my son, but I have a meeting with my client tomorrow afternoon and must deliver a working mockup. So I thought I’d help myself focus and give you some play-by-play tips as the night unfolds. The goal? Not Continue reading One-Night Website Part 1: The Plan |
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