:word list:
fun
cute
funny
graphic
blood
fake
grumpy
vampire
halloween
kid friendly
family friendly
spiders
web
scary
lair
teaching
informative
communicates
cape
dracula
csi
boomboom sound
fbi hat
sunglasses
jacket
maimi
Audience Persona
Damien is a 10 year old boy, and his favorite holiday is Halloween. He loves everything about it, and especially coming up with the scariest or most interesting costume for the elementary school Halloween costume parade. This year he is going as zombie and he is trying to find something that would make his costume extra scary and realistic, but he is running out to time and has to figure something out for tomorrow. So he goes to his computer and google searches around. He comes across this site that talks is geared for kids and great ideas for Halloween costumes. He starts clicking through and decides that fake blood is the perfect thing to add that extra kick to his costume, plus the grumpy vampire that teaches you how to make it is funny and makes the recipe more fun to read. It seems easy enough to make so he copies it down. Also there is a tutorial on how to make a fake crime scene. Not only does this work well for his costume, but a now he has way of scaring people who want to his house for trick or treating!
Alfred and his son are building a haunted doorway for their house this year for halloween. They have set up a little haunted house type thing in front of the door, where there are different cubbies you have to open and feel around for candy, or a gross surprise. He wants to give his pealed grapes an extra level of grossness and scariness, so he decides to find a way to make fake blood. He searches on google and finds this flash animation. Alfrend and his son Steven sit down together to watch this fun animation. They both find it fun, and a little goofy, but non the less make it really fun to learn how to make fake blood and how to use.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
10 worst websites
I found this website that lists the 1 worst websites you wish you had never seen. My personal favorite is the jesus site with the rainbow background... its priceless..
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Hour 7 waiting for a printer
S0 I am sitting in the print lab... I have been here since noon waiting to print 4 pages. I think it is crazy that we only have 2 epson printers. Plus there is two perfectly good epson stylus's downstairs in the photo lab not being used, when there are students who need to use them... There is no reason for somenone to have to wait 7 plus hours for a printer, if we had 4 printers like we used to this wouldn't be an issue. 2 epsons is not enough, especially when we have projects like this due! I understand that the photo printers are bought with student funds, but why can't graphics do the same? I don't know what happened to the other two epsons, if they are getting fixed or what not. IF they are just in the process of being repaired, I want them back....
Sorry for the rant... I am just frustrated.
Sorry for the rant... I am just frustrated.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Process Work
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02. ESTABLISHING GOALS (all about your site not the original site)
What is _________.com
What is the purpose of the site/what is the site about.
What sites are in competition or offer similar "things" to yours.
Treesaregood.com is a site devoted to tree care, tree information and tree appreciation. The site's main goal is to promote education about trees and the value you behind them. Their information ranges from the basics of planting trees and proper maintenance care to how to treat sick and dying trees. On top of their information on how to teach people to take care of trees themselves, they also include ways to help a person find a certified arborist in their area, and the importance certification. They also have section just on tree appreciation and why trees are beneficial
A few sites offer similar information. Treehelp.com is the main competition. It offers much of the same information, including tree care, and an arborist search which is the main bulk of the information offered on treesaregood.com. There are a few sites that talk about tree care, but the entire website is not just about trees, they just have specific facts but does not include everything that treesaregood.com
Audience Persona
Wendy just moved into her dream home. The only problem is the low hanging branches over the drive way. She wants to find someone who can safely cut the branches down, without killing the tree, or damaging anything on her property. She decides to search tree care on google. The first website that appears is Treesaregood.com. She clicks it and a very simple clean and pretty website that appears. She immediately sees : Find a Tree Care Specialist, but she is trying to save money, so she clicks tree care, because if there is a tutorial, she would consider doing it herself. So she clicks tree care, but immediately changes her mind, what was she thinking? She could climb up into the tree and cut that branch down herself?! Luckily, there is a menu on the right where she can search for a tree care specialist, also on the tree care page. It was perfect, she didn't have to worry about clicking back through the other pages and she can immediately find someone in her area to contact.
Concept Statement
01. PROJECT SUMMARY
State general project information, goals, and relevant background information for site redesign. This paragraph should be a statement overview of the project as a whole. Include your Concept Statement.
Challenge two combines the art of organization and design. The goal was to take a poorly designed and poorly organized website, from the real world, and redesign the information in a innovative and well functioning internet site. We worked in groups at the beginning of the project in order to help handle the volume of information as well as to teach us how to work on a team. The final product was our own and had to have a redesigned site map as well as the website function itself.
My specific website as an informational site about tree care, called Treesaregood.org. The site originally was confusing as well has offered an abundance of information that one could access from several different places that became repetitive and confusing. The biggest problem to overcome was how to restructure the site and the information so that it was manageable to the consumer. My goal was to rearrange the site's information so that it no longer lead the user in circles, but communicated the message is a clear efficient way that also happened to be interesting and entertaining to a wide audience of people. Also the site had to be easy to use and not too flashy because many of our projected audience would be elderly and not very computer savvy.
02. ESTABLISHING GOALS (all about your site not the original site)
What is _________.com
What is the purpose of the site/what is the site about.
What sites are in competition or offer similar "things" to yours.
Treesaregood.com is a site devoted to tree care, tree information and tree appreciation. The site's main goal is to promote education about trees and the value you behind them. Their information ranges from the basics of planting trees and proper maintenance care to how to treat sick and dying trees. On top of their information on how to teach people to take care of trees themselves, they also include ways to help a person find a certified arborist in their area, and the importance certification. They also have section just on tree appreciation and why trees are beneficial
A few sites offer similar information. Treehelp.com is the main competition. It offers much of the same information, including tree care, and an arborist search which is the main bulk of the information offered on treesaregood.com. There are a few sites that talk about tree care, but the entire website is not just about trees, they just have specific facts but does not include everything that treesaregood.com
Audience Persona
Wendy just moved into her dream home. The only problem is the low hanging branches over the drive way. She wants to find someone who can safely cut the branches down, without killing the tree, or damaging anything on her property. She decides to search tree care on google. The first website that appears is Treesaregood.com. She clicks it and a very simple clean and pretty website that appears. She immediately sees : Find a Tree Care Specialist, but she is trying to save money, so she clicks tree care, because if there is a tutorial, she would consider doing it herself. So she clicks tree care, but immediately changes her mind, what was she thinking? She could climb up into the tree and cut that branch down herself?! Luckily, there is a menu on the right where she can search for a tree care specialist, also on the tree care page. It was perfect, she didn't have to worry about clicking back through the other pages and she can immediately find someone in her area to contact.
Concept Statement
01. PROJECT SUMMARY
State general project information, goals, and relevant background information for site redesign. This paragraph should be a statement overview of the project as a whole. Include your Concept Statement.
Challenge two combines the art of organization and design. The goal was to take a poorly designed and poorly organized website, from the real world, and redesign the information in a innovative and well functioning internet site. We worked in groups at the beginning of the project in order to help handle the volume of information as well as to teach us how to work on a team. The final product was our own and had to have a redesigned site map as well as the website function itself.
My specific website as an informational site about tree care, called Treesaregood.org. The site originally was confusing as well has offered an abundance of information that one could access from several different places that became repetitive and confusing. The biggest problem to overcome was how to restructure the site and the information so that it was manageable to the consumer. My goal was to rearrange the site's information so that it no longer lead the user in circles, but communicated the message is a clear efficient way that also happened to be interesting and entertaining to a wide audience of people. Also the site had to be easy to use and not too flashy because many of our projected audience would be elderly and not very computer savvy.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Final Website
Check out my website! oh btw be sure to open it in Safari, for some reason it gets messed up when you view it in mozilla.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Spiritually Englightened use Macs
I was at the Rime Buddhist Center this weekend doing a photography assignment, and I snapped this photo of a Monk using his Mac computer to run a presentation. I got a kick out of it. 
website!
file:///Users/kande/Desktop/treesaregood.com/treesaregood/images/image2/home.html
website!
file:///Users/kande/Desktop/treesaregood.com/treesaregood/images/image2/home.html
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sagmeister VS. Gan Hosoya
I was doing research for my History of Graphic Design in Japan Since WW2 when I came across this artist named Gan Hosoya and I couldn't help thinking that his poster designed in the mid 60s looked a lot like Sagmeister's website. I know that Sagmeister has done work in Japan and who knows maybe Gan Hosoya influenced him. Just a guess, but you never know...
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