Form Validation

 I have just created a contact page which allows the user to put in their name, email address and any message they would like to send to me. it then sends it to my email. This creates a way for people to directly get in touch with me and ask any questions they may have. i also embedded a video on my DMPT page, in which it lies below the Lightbox gallery. I added some SWF image files to my MMA page. one which is static and does not move, and one which does.

Gallery

I wanted to have a photo gallery in my website. i researched how to do this and found code to create the desired look and feel. i changed some of the code to fix it to my liking. This gallery code is called Lightbox 2. it is easy to implement and creates a perfect image gallery. while doing this i also came accross a way to scroll my site back to the top. it uses simple hand written javascript and does its job efficently and effectivly.

Problems

The main problem i have found is a compatability issue. I have noticed that my website does not display properly in internet explorer. Media queries dont work in internet explorer and i am not sure how to fix this problem. i will work to fix these problems as soon as i can. I am also having problems getting media queries to function the way i would like them to.

05/03/13

After coding most of my first page i tried to make the website responsive. This uses Media Queries to get the screen size of the browser and allows the code inside it to run. i have been having trouble as my website is slightly larget than the media querie i used so i had to change som absolute values to percentage values

28/02/13

After tweaking with the layout and color scheme of my site i have finalised the design. It is a minimal layout with plenty of whitespace. I was advised my my lecturer not to use absolute colors and to use off shades, which makes the site look a lot better. Im using flat colors, no gradients and limited curved edges. While starting my HTML and CSS layout i encountered a problem with floats, which a classmate soon helped to fix.

17/02/2013.

I have chosen to do a portfolio website. This will consist of 6 pages, each for a module in my course. My color scheme will be dark contrasting with light colors such as black, grey white and a touch of red. This will also be the first site i have made which uses Javascript. I need to implement 3 javascript functions, one will be a photo viewer or gallery, another will be a scroll to the top function and the last will be checking a persons age. This site must also be responsive, which means it must change and make its self more appropriate with whatever is being used to access it.

I have found a link which will give me the scroll-to-top function: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4147112/how-to-jump-to-top-of-browser-page

Choices.

Deciding on which site to create or remake i have come up with 3 choices. Create my own, as a portfolio site. This would consist of a page for each module and content related to each.
Another option would be to remodel the powercity.ie website, as the layout is slopy at best. recreating this would be easy as the content would already be there. My final option would be redoing the WSPCA site. The layout of which is just passable but could use a touch up.