Published on February 17, 2009 by Noel Madali
Life is good, work is busy. I recently finished the Sentinel website, which you can visit here. My reason for redesigning is because of the deadline for the Online Pacemaker. My redesign and coding really gave me a boost in experience as I get better and better. My current project is hooking up Google Calendar to WordPress for an Event System that people can subscribe to and view, which is something that many people have tried to do. The problem has been ongoing with a few people having it partially working while others are still waiting for a foolproof system. I tried almost every plugin on my local MAMP server to no avail.. except for one that most people don’t seem to know? Read more »
Published on February 9, 2009 by Noel Madali
Haha, so yeah… I did say I was going to post a design after i recoup my designer’s block, but it turns out that I am back.
The design was sorta simple yet went back to my own tastes with various inspirations elsewhere. I do like simplicity, and I think simplicity fits me well. I would like to try out various other styles of design like the very artsy vintage, grunge styles, and vectorish modernish.
They should have a class specifically for web design styles, haha. Then again, there might be stuff already made for that and I wouldn’t even know.
So today I completely neglected the fact I had a math exam in calculus. I stayed up all night until 5am doing my website and formatting my portfolio to be displayed.
I still have not come up with a great work flow that covers the creative aspect as well as the organized format of a web design portfolio. If you don’t know what I mean, I am talking about what to do when you create a finished product or work, such as a wallpaper. How would you display it for the world to see on a website? More specifically, would you keep copies of your wallpaper in an archive on your external hard disk (like me) and make a copy specifically for your website to distribute?
Also, how do people go about making thumbnails? Thumbnails are really a pain… This is true for even different sizes of print material.
As you can also see, I have updated my portfolio. You can see my various works I have finished. I think I will update it to have titles and general information on the works.
And I must not forget my resume..
Published on February 2, 2009 by Noel Madali
I am still doing homework, as you can see… This time its for my IS2040 class (Web Development I). I would like to argue the name of “Web Development” as the class title, as we do not do “development” for the web. Instead we do design for the web, but perhaps it can also be argued that its the development of design for the web, in which we learn the process of designing websites (DADI).
On to my rant, the question is number 5 from page 61-62 from the book “Principles of Web Design.”
5. Find a Web site that you think needs improvements in its design.
a. Print two pages from the site.
b. Make copies of the originals, and set the originals aside.
c. Using scissors, cut the main elements of each page. Rearrange the elements and paste them in a design you believe improves the site.
d. Compare and contrast the original with your improved design.
Now, about those instructions… For one, its a waste of paper. Two, websites that do need improvement need major overhauls in content (eg. pages that scroll so far that you can’t even see the scroll bar). Three, cutting and pasting elements won’t do much to improve the design, since most websites that really need improvement need better content organization.
For better instructions to improve the question, I would see something like: Choose a website that needs improvement and sketch out a layout using some graphic elements and/or content from the site.
Back to work. End.
Published on February 2, 2008 by Noel Madali
As you can see, I had alot of time on my hand. So much time that I went ahead and compressed many elements on the website to fit for quick scanning and viewing. Maybe you’ll like it, maybe you won’t.
Anyway, new stuff you’ll find is the new Add this feature at the bottom of every post. This will allow you to submit currently viewed posts to popular social bookmarking sites like del.ici.ous, digg it, etc.
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Published on August 2, 2006 by Noel Madali
My second ever domain.. I actually had a domain when I was little, back in the DBZ craze and what not. I still remember those old websites like “dbgtn.com” and “dbgt.com.” How I got into this design mess? Its a long story, but so will this post be. So back to the story, back in the day, Dragon Ball Z was where everything was at.
I made a couple of DBZ websites on Geocities, yes that mess. I did some checking on my old websites, and guess what? They are still there. One of them was “Xeo DBZ,” but.. they deleted it.. Darn them Geocities people.. Anyways, I made my many websites Read more »
