The last week has certainly been slow for the design team as we have had the most critical parts of our job complete. Although the website was meant to functional and working for testing Monday there were still minor things the other teams needed to complete before then. Over the weekend I had completed editing, cropping, and retouching another four banner images for the website. So when Monday came around our group went over the banner images that we had cropped and made final decisions on which to use.

This week for the design team was kind of slow because of break. We only had Monday to meet. So Monday we went through the thirty or so odd pictures and discussed what needed to be changed in order for them to work on the website. Some common problems for the pictures we have include some of them being out of focus causing fuzziness and blurring. Some of the pictures would obviously need cropping as well. This is a definite must for many of the pictures because they either have inappropriate material in them (such as beer signs and such) or a lot of empty and unneeded space.

Over the weekend I worked on yet another design mockup. I used the client’s old website for reference in creating it. I relied on the content and information from the site and made minor changes to the layout and colors. I also changed the fonts as they were hard to read and not very visually pleasing.

During week 12 the design group got a good start on the work at hand and was able to accomplish several things. The first thing we did was sit as a group and discuss and view several other Youth websites to determine some things we knew we wanted. We were able to determine that we needed to find something simple that would allow the user to access each part of the site easily and without confusion. The website would need to be broken up into content for jobs, the community center, and the board of directors.

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Podcast is Kneedraggin' Pre Laguna '07