This was a pretty slow week as far as the design team goes. We are still sitting on front end to give us information on what they need as far as the graphics go. We did work on the banners quite a bit this week getting together maybe 3 different banners for the website from the photographs that the client gave us. This week I noticed that our three image links at the bottom were not consistent with each other as far as text location and style so I took it upon myself to fix those and make them more consistent.

I would say that this was another slow week for the design team. We did not have much to do other than cropping and adjusting images.

On Monday we talked about what we had left to do and worked a little on the banners. We tweaked a couple of images to the right size 720 by 290 pixels and picked a couple of images that would be good for the banners on each page.

On Monday, I showed the design team the images that I had cropped over the Thanksgiving break. We figured out the size of the banner and the size of the images. This allowed us to crop and resize the images to the correct size. I then took the volunteer image that we decided on and I added the text “Volunteer” to the image. I used the same type style that was used in the mockup design. I also provided Chris with my cropped and retouched donation image so that he could add the text to that image.

Week 15 has so far been the best in terms of production. Monday I created the banner, logo, and a few of the other link images used on the page. I worked with the front end coders to ensure that the resolution of each image would work. I also communicated with the other designers to make sure we were all on the same page, that we were not overlapping in our work, and so on. We tried a few initial images, and finally settled towards the ones we would use on the main page.