Jim's Blog

Hello and welcome to my blog. This blog will be used primarily (or rather ONLY) for posting research and work I've done for I-media. So yeah...knock yourself out.

Monday, June 6

Mobile site.

While my Mobile site remained fairly close to my original mockup there were some changes. For example the colours are different. However, content wise it has remained the same with the links remaining almost the same.


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Timelapse of Meadowlands

While Meadowlands was being set up me and a classmate (Louis) filmed for hours tents and Llamas. Originally, we intended to use a Digital Camera to take shots rather than video to film. However, we were unable to get the equipment necessary so instead we ended up simply filming using Zi8 cameras.



The track chosen is from a Meadowlands band Tall Ships.

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Last.fm Page

Although populating the page is limited on Last.fm (there is only so much one can do) I have added some artists to the library and also linked to the website as well as other social networking links.

http://www.last.fm/user/MeadowFestival

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Tuesday, May 31

CV.






Click on both parts to enlarge (page 1 top then page 2 bottom).

Business Card design.

My Business cards were design according to my website. While I like my design I'm not too pleased with how they turned out in print.


I made it CMYK and at 300dpi so maybe it could have been the colour contrast I used (the text is very difficult to read). Of course digitally the text is easier to read than on the print version.

Next time I make business cards I think I will most definitely use brighter colours.

Graduation Show.

The end of year Graduation show was successful. The work I had included in the interactive portfolio was:




Both are print pieces at 300dpi. They're made up of both websites I have done. The website I did for The OU for the YCN project and my Portfolio site.

Monday, May 30

Javascript and Jquery used.

On my homepage I was told I needed to have some imagery but I was unsure on how to go about achieving this. I decided to have something called a spacegallery.

http://www.eyecon.ro/spacegallery/

Spacegallery uses Jquery to make your images come through each other as you click on them (like a slideshow).

It was quite difficult and problematic to implement but eventually I managed to fix the issues it created.

Another piece of Javascript I used was Lightbox 2.0. This is used for images and makes an image enlarge (usually a thumbnail is used to click on).

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

It was fairly easy to implement. Simply consists copying files and updating paths.