On Monday, the design team shared the banner images with the Frontend team. I had most of the banner images on my usb drive, and I gave the banner images (which are intended to be used on the other pages of the website) that I had to the frontend team so that they could have them to add to the current website. We worked on the team’s contribution document in class. I read the design team’s work blogs to gather information for this contribution document.

It has been another week and the design team has a little more work to show for it.

On Monday we came up with our documentation for the Documents and Testing team so that they could make a full document for the client on what colors and photos we used. We also completed our team contribution document. After we completed the team contribution document there was not much time left so we talked about if we were going to take a picture of our hands, we decided to go for it.

This was a fairly busy week for design. We got a lot done in the way of finishing the website by Friday and I think we did a pretty good job on getting it all done on time. On Monday I fixed the image links on the bottom of the website. These had previously been misaligned as well as using inconsistent grammar and tenses with the rest of the website. In addition to fixing the images along the bottom of the website I created a 16px x 16px icon that goes in the address bar next to the web address. I created a butterfly for this as that is what the clients symbol is.

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 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.

While a little late, I felt it important to still reflect on the work done this week. With only one workday in class before break, only a few things were completed. The design team met and I led in narrowing down the images the client had provided us for use on the website. I also spoke with the front end coders to see where they were at, but they said they would need more time. Essentially I am ready to go to create graphics as soon as the opportunity is available.

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.