The web has been a journey and infinitely more tedious than any graphic design work I have done. I mainly use three programs for building web pages. Adobe Dreamweaver I use this to help me link files, images, and other things directly without having to leave the workspace. Otherwise I use Notepad++ for Windows, for Linux I use Gedit. All are good programs, they have their perks and their drawbacks, but everyone has their preference.
My portfolio is three parts - Graphics, Web, and Extra's. You're currently on my Web section. Click one of the following images to view my Graphic-based or Extra items.
Bhaal11 - This was a starter, for lack of a better word. Very simple, very basic, coding. Most of the work was done, I just had to change the content. Which including changing colors, pictures, the layout depending on what I wanted to display. This is my starting point into web developement, how it looks, how it works. While I was building this site I was also doing a sport blog about fitness so I decided to build my content about increasing awareness of sports and muscle damage.
Bhaal Arts - This is my first web-site. I was proud of this one and how it was shaping out, but I was still mostly playing with settings. I wanted to build a site to showcase various arts whether digital or on paper. I knew how I wanted it to look, with this I was just trying to get it to look how I wanted. The home page was easy, but the second page, the bulk of my content was and still is a greater challenge. One I will conquer and be aware of in future projects.
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Cold Steel - This is a site I like, but hate how it is layed out. It is cluttered and crammed full of information, but very little of it is relevant to the site and what it offers. It's redundant, it's confusing, if you stumbled upon this site you'd probably scream from not knowing what to do, maybe thinking it was spam. What I did followed a more photographic perspective, but I kept with the theme of ColdSteel. Set-up a few lists, a few grids, a form, but nothing overly extreme.
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Revitagame - Everyone has something large scale they think up at some point, but know they'll probably never acheive it. For me it is this site I came up with while working on another project. Plus this site would also be my "playground" for trying out different code, new code whether it be HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, javascript, jQuery, PHP. If I can get this site built and have it work the way I want to, I believe it'll be a testament to my web development skills as a whole.
Tutorial Proposal - This was a challenge project from a class that went over php, mySQL, back-end developement that you as a user wouldn't know that was going on while you were browsing, buying, filling out a form online, etc. The assignment was to make an electronic version of a form for the web. I decided to try my hand at remaking a form from school. The html and the css behind it was the easy part, getting the php side and the mysql, not so much. Eventually did get it working and it was beautiful. But now the files are jumbled and I need to sort them so they re-connect and the form can work properly.
The Wild mobile app - This was a dummy project to say the least, the goal was to present a new idea by making it into an app, a kickstarter campaign. In this case the group I was working with and myself decided to try something rural, outdoors, fun and adventure. Then we came up with the Wild App. My part in this project was to help with the content and designing various things like the logo, stretch goals page, I worked with one of my group members on this. The coding aspect was done by two other groups members. We believe it came out very well despite it's pure simplicity. Course it helps when you branch off of something that already exists, you just change what it does.
SpotShop - This project was a lot of fun. Similar to the other app project, except come up with something totally new and it's just you and one other person. My group member and I conceived this little spectacle. The idea was to make it easier to search for a vehicle by via markings, symbols, logos, decals, any and all of the above. The app works on the principal of a an extremely large library to search for something specific. When you come across it you can save it and edit the information to your personal vehicle. Then set certain things like an oil-change, new tires, whatever you decide, engine overhaul. The app is to help someone be a "grease-monkey's" tool or even the average joe be more knowledgable about their vehicle.