We been given our first deadline for the class; 1st November 2007 - we have to have our websites uploaded onto the server. So what are my chances of making the deadline? Obviously we don't have to have the whole thing populated, but the structure has to be there.
So far, I've finished the "Home" page and the "Story" page. That's only another 19 or so pages to go :-). I've created empty placeholder pages for all the other pages. So the full site structure is there. I should be able to knock up something for the "About Me" pages (Bio, Resume and Contact Info) fairly quickly and the rest will be empty. Since we're still on the pre-production phase none of the production or post-production pages will have any content yet.
I've tried to structure the site so that you can go to any of the pages from anywhere else. The navigation bar appears on all pages. The nav bar has sub-menus which roll-out when you roll over them. I felt that it was important to make this a CSS only menu, in case anyone has JavaScript switched off in their browser. This was good in theory, but much harder in practice. My knowledge of CSS was fairly basic and I would have struggled without the help of the examples at cssplay.co.uk (thank you Stu Nicholls - I must get round to making a donation).
The Home page is working ok. Although, sometimes it loads slowly due to the newsfeed coming from my blog. I must investigate ways of speeding this up, if at all possible. If anyone has JavaScript switched off in the browser, they are met with a message which supplies a link to the blog.
I need to tackle the pages that will effectively be image galleries. I have a structure in mind for these but I need to try it out tomorrow.
Also we have some introductory videos on ZBrush which I need to get around to watching soon. Zak (the main class tutor) made an interesting comment about ZBrush being good for concept art - I had been planning on pencil and paper, but who knows - better watch them soon.
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