Zanoaz’s Blog

Well today I had a half-day at school because of exams so I went to my old school, Lester Middle School. Unfortunately, there were lookouts who weren’t letting high-schoolers on unless they had a pass that they can only get by having a previous arrangement with the teacher their going to see. When I went there, the guy was ignorant and didn’t hear that I wanted to see Ms. Helms. He thought I wanted to see someone named “Vitchbery” and then we were kicked out for not having an appointment. Tyler and I walked around the school 2½ times and then we were told we weren’t allowed to walk around the school without passes so we went back to the office where a different person asked us who we wanted to see and then called and I was allowed to go but Tyler had to leave. I went to Ms. Helms room to find two other kids and my friend Mehdi. After I went with Mehdi to see our old science teacher, Ms. Miller, I went home to get my laptop and bring it back. When I got back, I sat down in a chair by her computers and made a design to use for her web page. Unfortunately I ran into an extremely foolish problem where I inserted an iFrame where her site content would go but I forgot to close the tag with a “</iframe>” which separated everything and stretching the images. After spending an hour of making the specific sizes of the table cells I finally saw the iFrame row in the code and I noticed the mistake and fixed it finally. There are still some minor problems with the page presentation but I just need to fix the banner cell size. I plan to make more designs to present to Ms. Helms and when I’m done and she picks the design, I’ll post a picture of the design until I get my portfolio set up.

That is all for today. I’m going to play Gears of War for a little bit and then I’ll start on one idea for a design I have in my head that I think will work a lot better then the current design because this one will be much cleaner and simpler then the current one.

Well today I was walking around listening to T.I. and just doing various physical courses when I went up to Lester Middle School and went upstairs when a teacher was coming downstairs so I asked her if Ms. Helms(My 7th grade drama teacher) was still at school and she couldn’t remember but she unlocked the door and let me in and Ms. Helms was in her class room working on grades. I went in and we talked for a few minutes catching up on my grades, her son, and why I didn’t choose to do drama in high school. Eventually during our conversation, I brought up how I’m doing web design  at this time and she asked me if I could redesign her teacher page as she’s been wanting to take some pictures off but doesn’t know how(which is simple but she pointed out that her generation is a “point-and-click” generation) and I of course said I’d redesign her web page. Now I only need to find out what she specifically wants but I should find that out Friday.

That is all for today. Once I get done with her request I’ll work more on FreeWill Design and hopefully get a portfolio page up which will show my work.

FreeWill Design can be viewed here.

I manipulated the render(cut-out image) by adding the snow above and increasing the amount of light given off the left candle. I’m going to finish reading the “Basics” article at Web Design from Scratch. After I finish that, I’ll begin plotting the basic layout of FreeWill Design and hopefully plot out the information that pages will hold. Earlier today, I showed some of my friends at school the waiting page and asked for advice but was given terrible advice(“What did you say?” and “HighImpactHalo”) and in the end I gained nothing to help me with my site, graphic/information-wise. Unfortunately for the one place that I believed I could get great feedback on the design, I was dissappointed with a simple ” Looks fine for me,” which answered a question in the topic but no feedback was recieved. If anyone reading this would like to review the design or suggest ideas for the site content, it would be greatly appreciated.