![]() At least my brand will stay consistent throughout my site and so on, other things are open for change.Īfter days and days of working my butt off, the finished product is always my favorite part of a project. I feel like this site will always be a work in progress, only because I’m always growing and learning new things. When you have complete control over your own website, you find yourself making little changes here and there as the days go on. It was a miracle, everything was finally in place. Images were edited, content created, and projects were all coordinated. Related Post: Creating and Printing My Own Business Cards and finally… Side note- the HTML color is defined as “thistle” and that’s what I’ve been using. CSS is what gives your site flavor, or in my case a lot of purple. Once my rough draft of a layout was in order, I moved on to fixing the little spacing errors and when everything looked structurally solid, I moved on to “making it look pretty,” otherwise known as the Cascading Style Sheets. Anyway, I started with the bulk of it, getting all of my “divs” (a.k.a. One day after a ridiculous amount of sketching and researching and thought processing… I opened up Adobe Dreamweaver and coded my little heart out … No one? Sorry but I definitely laughed while typing that. For those of you that didn’t know already, Adobe Photoshop and I go way back. ![]() Photography is one of the main reasons that got me into art, but most importantly it had introduced me to Adobe Photoshop. Those 5 are Editorial Design, Web Design, Brand Identity, Logos/Illustration Design, & Photography. I decided to go with the 5 things that made me happiest when designing or creating. Below is an image of what my program looked like with my “place holder” images, very fabulous am I right? This allowed the images/content of the site to be wider, which I’m a big fan of. I chose to keep the navigation bar on the top, with a consistent header that followed you down the page as you scrolled. I was stuck on about two design ideas for this project of mine. Related Post: One Way to Build Your Portfolio Quickly The Idea And by should I mean, definitely open it in your browser before relying on Adobe Dreamweaver‘s “live” preview. If you take a look the left side of the screen is the HTML, and on the right is the live preview of what it should look like. This is one of the many projects that I’ve been keeping “hush” about, and I’m so so so so excited to FINALLY be able to share with you. P.S there are affiliate links in this post, to learn more about them click here. Let me just drop a screenshot of what I have been staring at for the past few months. Reading all of these different colored symbols and random letters on a screen that somehow create a beautiful thing can be awfully tedious though. Deciding which color or which typeface fits you best, and so on. Being in charge of everything is so, refreshing. There’s a lot of things that comes with even deciding on where to start with your own website.
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