More Research…

Thank you to those who gave back some feedback on my site. I really do wish I would have had more time to put together more concepts on this idea, but when you work full time (and live in Fort Worth) and have class full time (in Dallas)…well, I’m just lucky to get any sleep at all. I digress…
As for the site, I personally have been wanting to change it up some, but I have been at a stand still as how to go about that. That’s where you all came in. I knew that I needed to make it “less” in some way, but have been unsure how. In a way…still am. I don’t want it to have that 90’s feel like Luke said. I really do want to make it look better.

I’m not sure I quite understand the whole “swapping pictures” thing exactly. What to do, what not to do. I mean, isn’t interactive media design all about pictures, media, and graphics? I know we’re not, but it feels sometimes like I’m being so limited. I try to learn from books…but I really suck at it unless it’s completely interactive. I really do have that ADD “oooh shiny” attention span to a lot of things…especially a lot of words. I have to do things to understand them, but it hard to do it unless its really clear about what it is that I’m doing. I don’t try to be difficult, but I have these ideas, and sometimes I think it’s hard to convey them to others. I wish I could just focus on this one class. I’m really really interested in understanding it wholly.

I believe that my biggest obstacle is being able to minimize for optimization on the site. I think I may have some ideas that will help me simplify things a bit. We’ll see. Though more specifically, pertaining to my navigation, I think I’m going to try this picture background thing. If it works out, great! If not, then I’ll just go with a solid background.

Please, if you have any suggestions or ideas, send them my way and your info will be much appreciated. Thanks.

For that matter here are a few sites that I came across that seem to help me understand my issues better. Useit.com: Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration is about how the community aspect of the web has dramatically changed. An article based more on user centered design, but none-the-less informative for applying to the overall finished site.

Useit.com: The Fallacy of Atypical Web Examples is about certain sites that may have exceptional circumstances that can serve customers in spectacular ways, but when making a site it will most likely have to use another approach that is better suited for your specific users and the tasks they want to perform.

Alright…it’s now almost 2:30 am. I’m going to try and get a decent nights sleep finally. Until next…

~Jedi

Conceptal Process For Final…

Oh man! I’ve been so busy this past week that I have, unfortunately, not had the opportunity to post about anything. I blame it on another of my classes really (Ideation & Rapid Vis), which is sad because I hold this class (Intermediate Scripting) in such higher regard and more interesting. On top of that, I have a poison oak rash that’s been keeping me up at all hours in the night, so I’ve hardly had any sleep. Anyhow…

As for my compositions go, I only have one particular concept :(, but it has about 15 – 17 pages already to go along with it. Something that I’ve been working on recently. I’m not against changing it up a bit on the layout, but I’ve done a lot of research into how this site should look at least and some on how it should operate by this point, I mean, I’ve even gotten high praises from the company’s owners that it’s just what they are looking for and more. Speaking of…stay tuned, I’m going to post an interview I had with a user not long ago, he gave me some good insight as to what he and others like him would probably love to see on this site. Again, I’m not against changing up the sites layout and such. This is something that I really want to get up and running. I figure that this one site (once completed) will have a little bit of  most things that contain features and elements of a lot of other sites.

I think that I could learn a lot from doing this site. I get confused if I’m constantly asked to pick a different topic. How can I learn how to do things or execute particular ideas if I have to keep coming up with something new? Don’t get me wrong. I always have so many ideas in my head and things that I could do. On average, my current abilities are far lesser compared to my imagination. With that, unfortunately as well, I don’t tend to thing to simplistic very often so I have a harder time starting small and working up. *sigh* I need serious help.

Well, stay tuned like I said. I apologize if everything is not quite up to standard or expectations this week, but to be honest at this particular moment…I just want a decent nights sleep and for this itchy poison oak rash on my arm to go away.