I need to create an online site to showcase my work for potential clients and employees.

I have a bit of a variety of work I’d like to show off and am a little unsure of how I want to categorize it. My website needs to match my actual portfolio DVD and transitions. Well I’ve actually been reading a lot of comic books lately and decided to go with that type of look. I’m not exactly sure how I want everything to be laid out but I’ve got some great ideas running around my head. I just need to thumbnail them out to see what works for what. I’m pretty close to figuring out my color scheme. I found this awesome site for choosing colors for design. http://www.colorsontheweb.com/ I suggest checking out the color wizard and the color wheel! That color wheel is awesome! I could play with that all day and find so many colors I never would have thought to go together! Well, I will update more as my idea grows!

I never really thought about my process for design as a step by step procedure. After reading Douglas Bowman’s “A Design Process Revealed” I realized I do have a bit of a process of my own. I follow a few of his basic steps with a change here or there.

I start with acknowledging what the project is and why and who I am doing it for. I keep in mind my audience and my medium. I check out what others have done or even my own similar work. I check out what works what doesn’t work and write down all my ideas. Then I start sketching out what I think would look good, different layouts, styles, ideas. Then I take what looks like it would work best to photoshop and start laying down my main ideas for the pages, like color scheme, navigation, text size or font, different images sizes and shapes and locations. I never thought about laying out text the way he does. I think that’s a great idea to find different fonts that work well together to get a good feel for what the page will look like in the end. After spending some time on my work, I like to take a break before I get too attached to a single idea and let other people look at it and let me know where the ups and downs of the different layouts are. Then I keep working on it tweaking details here and there until I am happy with it or the project is due.

I’m just starting out, I’m Christine and let’s see what I can learn today.