Sunday, December 18, 2011

Website Design Class Conquered!

Here is the link if you would like to check out my site!

http://turing.iuk.edu/~n245-7/project/

I'm not sure how long it will be available on this server since it is through the university, but until they remove it - this is the link! I think future plans for my site include transfering the artwork images to a slideshow format rather than thumbnails. As thumbnails the whole page has to be re-arranged to add or remove work; as a slideshow the only thing I would have to change would be the slideshow! I also plan to update te artwork shown on here with better quality images and more recent work. Much of my high school work is here and I would like to tailor the viewing experience more to recent, more illustration oriented work to attract book illustration jobs!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Update on Website Course

I'm still here clicking away on what will hopefully be a good investment of time and money. This course has been more challenging than I originally expected it to be but I am happy so far with the results. Originally I hoped to be able to share the steps to creating a website here as I learned them...turns out that was a pretty naive idea! I will tell you that The textbook I am using (pictured below) is very helpful and easy to navigate. It steps out the Dreamweaver software functions one by one. If you already own the Dreamweaver software and are having difficulty figuring it out, this book will help!



If you do not own the software already I would reccomend taking the IUK N245 course. The cost of tuition for the 3 credit course is not much more than the retail cost of the Adobe design suite of programs that you are able to download free as a student AND you get the instruction to go with it.

I am beginning phase two of my site heatherfouts.com As soon as I have it viewer friendly I will post the URL here! Thanks everyone for being patient! Oh~ also new artwork coming soon...

Have a Happy Holiday!