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.

BoilerPlate.CSS.
The boilerplate is when you clear a browsers css and reseting it to your own default values. http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/the-real-html5-boilerplate/ - Example code can be found here. this creates a blank template to work from.