Client - Got CMS Installed

Just installed my first CMS alongside WAMP!!!! took me ages, but i can now start playing around with customising templates.

Client Project - CMS

I'm currently in the process of designing my website but with the lack of knowledge in PHP!!! but even more so that Ive never built a CMS! so Ive done some research into CMS and have listed the available options for me to choose from. My only other option is to build the CMS by myself!


CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple lives up to its name as being an easy system to install, configure, and use. It doesn't have as many features or as large of a user community as Drupal, WordPress or Joomla, but it's a good option if you want to get something online fast without much of a learning curve.

Drupal

Drupal also powers sites by Warner Bros. Records, Forbes, AOL, Yahoo, and The Onion.

Drupal is fairly easy to use once you get past the initial learning curve. Drupal is easier to customize than many other content management systems because of features like custom content types and the Views module.

Joomla

Joomla is a powerful open-source content management system with a very active user community and many modules that you can add to increase functionality.

Client Project - Making a start

I have begun my client project! i have referred to my Gantt Chart to see what tasks i need to do first and i have made some wireframes for my 'Palmhive' website.

Client Project - My Client

For my Client project i am creating a website for a Nottingham Textile Business (Palmhive Technical Textiles Ltd.) and have used erskindesign 'Project Enquiry Survey' to gather information from my client in order to proceed with the website building.

Company info...

Palmhive Technical Textiles Ltd.
NTG House, Willow Road, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2TA.
enquiries@palmhive.co.uk
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Client Project - Planning

I have started my Client project and i have used a Gantt chart to show the timescale and various stages of my project...

Start of a new year

Just had my first lecture of the second term back and the projects have begun!!!!. I have planned the term through a Gantt chart (below) and I will start my projects straight after this post.

Simulated Client Project Complete!

For the first time on the course I have finished 2 days early! lol. Here is my website which is currently being hosted on my portfolio website. I am glad this time round that my website works in Firefox and Internet Explorer!.

www.nickcoxmedia.co.uk/pirate_website

My Piracy website is basically a website which informs a young audience about the basics of Piracy. My original idea was to animate and make all of the animals and island interactive. One of the features i managed to do was to create a 'pirate spyglass' which is activated when you scroll over the pirate ship.

Website Mockup

My website mockup so far for my homepage.

Wireframes

Heres a few wireframes for my 'Pirate' website.

Simulated client project - websites

After a looking to piracy I have found a few websites which inform piracy in different ways.

Stop Piracy Now

http://stoppiracynow.org/

This site was founded by a family-owned business in the travel industry that has worked hard, over many years, to produce quality travel information for consumers.

One day we had the distinct displeasure to discover that thousands upon (tens of) thousands of pages of there hard work were being stolen online, with the express purpose of pulling there customers away. The infringes were essentially using there own published work against them. They decided to fight back.

This website is, in essence, there story.

Stop Piracy Blog

http://jenjen.typepad.com/stoppiracy/

This website is basically a blog for digital designers who need help fighting piracy. Also this website informs people who dont have an understanding of piracy and inform things such as what piracy is and how to avoid taking part in it.

Simulated client project - research

Before I can begin to research piracy I first need to understand what piracy is?

What is Copyright?

Copyright infringement is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.

History

The statute of Anne was the first ever statute to be copyrighted dating back to 1709, and entered into force on 10 April 1709. It is generally considered to be the first fully-fledged copyright statute.

Statute of Anne 1709

Piracy

Piracy refers to acts intentionally committed for financial gain, though more recently copyright owners have described online copyright infringement, particularly in relation to peer-to-peer file sharing networks, as piracy.

Theft

Copyright owners frequently refer to copyright infringement as "theft". In law copyright infringement does not refer to actual theft, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner without authorisation.

Countries

Sharing copied music is legal in some countries, such as Canada and The Netherlands (downloading only), provided that the songs are not sold.

First Project

So we have received our first project of the year! which is to 'Produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy' (Which we have 3 weeks to produce).

My first thoughts was to challenge myself by creating an application which would inform about Digital Piracy but after Danny's lecture we were told 'not to create a piece which would not run off a CD'. GREAT! that limits me to a standard website! with no coding.

I am going to research into this and then come back with some ideas.

Brief 3 - Group Project link

Here i the link for our group blog for Yumi's.

http://ukyumidesign.blogspot.com/

Artist Website - validating

I'm struggling with validating my website. I have 29 errors and 12 warnings. Most of the errors are with the youtube code which i got from there website. So i am finding it hard to figure out the code.

Artist Website - Browser testing

Here is my website working in 3 broswers.

Working in Firefox

Working in Internet Explorer

Artist Website - chosen idea

After sending Kelly a PDF with the mockup ideas, she picked out which one she liked the most. I am now able to progress further with my design.

A screenshot showing me on facebook with Kelly

Mockups - Developing on my designs

When i received feedback from Kelly after i sent her the mockup ideas, she picked one out which she liked. I took this design and made variations of it to give her a visual idea of what it would look like before i started to put it together.

Mockups - Artist Website

After recieving feedback from my last project i decided to do more mockups this time round and ask for more feeback from the client. Here are some of the designs i have done...

Ideas and Wireframes

Some sketches and notes I made for the initial Wireframes...

More Wireframes...

Brief 2 Client

For my project I am designing a website for my friend Kelly Webster. She is a Director who specialises in Horror/Thriller type videos. She wants a website creating which reflects herself but is mainly used as a portfolio website.

Client information:

Name: Kelly Webster

Type of Website: Personal/Portfolio

Favorite Colour: Green

Layout: Simple and clean

Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube.

To get and idea of what Kelly regards to as a 'simple' website. I asked her if she could provide me with an example website.

The following website is a website she likes (Adline) which is a co-workers of hers. She is not bothered about a fancy website, she just wants a website which gets across the message in a basic form.

Website - http://www.adline.co.uk/

Antony lane -Filmmaker