Week 9- Template dilemmas
I found the prefect template from this site a friend recommended! It’s exactly how i’d like my layout to be. Having found this, i was rather please as it will save me time considering that I have zilch knowledge on photoshop, flash and dreamweaver prior to this course. In fact, I do not know how to apply any of the Adobe softwares mentioned and used in class. The only software I’ve had experience with is perhaps Adobe InDesign, even so it was years ago. Memory and skills rust if not put into use frequently. However, problems begin to develop- much to my dismay!!! The original designer had inserted various div tags and it was rather difficult to identify every single one. It’s so frustrating. Worse still, it is time-consuming.
As shown in my previous post, my first original template was this (second last row). Mr. Peter did point out that its irony that there are sky scrappers in the header, considering that this is a ‘Village Day’ after all. My intentions were to change the header with a design of my own while still maintaining some designs in the rest of the site. However, due to my shallow knowledge on Photoshop softwares, I had no clue how to remove the header (as it was divided by the original designer). It was then Templatemo.com was introduced by a friend.
Initial works:
Having no more time to waste, I decided once and for all to create my very own template from scratch.
So far all is good, I have been following some online tutorials for fireworks, photoshop and dreamweaver.
Progress is quite slow especially when i am working on editing and creating images using photoshop for my website. I actually find fireworks simpler. It’s easier when I have friends nearby so I can quickly ask for help. Sometimes what would take me an hour long to figure and still not have a solution; my friend could solve it within 5 minutes. =S not very uplifting. but I just have to sharpen my skills as I go.
