Week 15

This is a final shot of my splash page, it contains all of the websites that I have done for the semester.  I placed a screen shot of the header to my word press site with no explanation.  I felt that the header was a very strong piece by itself, and may cause curiosity to the person viewing the splash site.  With just the header, "lets play 18" and the photo of me.

It's interesting to see the contrast between a golf site, which is clear, sophisticated sport, mixed with the grunge look of not only the splash page, but the website itself is actually "elegant grunge".  For me I believe the transition is quite smooth and works.  I think there is a good balance of golf with grunge, style with functionality.  No one element really stands out, which for me at times is a little upsetting, but for this particular site it really doesn't bother me.

This is another snippet from the splash page, introducing a link to my blog site through blogger.com.  Again keeping the same grunge feel I used the graffiti letters to explain the blogger website. I did this to keep the splash page in uniform to make it looked like it was part of the whole, instead of just a seperate portion or piece all by itself.

This is a screen shot from my splash page right now showing a link to one of the iweb sites that was created on my laptop.

I drew this figure that I enjoyed using alot, it had a grunge feel and look, and it is in the background of the splash page that all my sites are on.  I used the graffiti type font for the explanation of each site because i believe it lended itself the grunge feeling of the layout and feel of the splash page.

Using photoshop I did some editing and customizing of the website to give it my own feeling.  I like the rugged look of the template, but really only wanted two columns.  I figured with the content being type, video and photos, the simplicity of the website would take nothing away from the actually content.

I took the picture with a pencil behind my ear which is how I normally golf, the pencil being to keep score and track of the putts and other things.  I again like the handwriting font that is in the header, that was done in photoshop to give the site a natural feeling, like the RSS feed and everything else including the photos which look like polaroids.

This again, is a small piece of the wordpress site that I, in detail, customized.

It was just your basic orange RSS feed button, I turned it into a green with a different color, and made it look like there was actually grass on the button to replicate a natural grass surface, like a golf course.

I than change the actual type to replicate handwriting, and the paper reminded me of a scorecard, so it made sense for me to put the handwriting type there, which brings back the real, live feeling that I wanted for the whole site to have.

I have also decided with all the video that I will be shooting that I will have a video of the week.

Basically this will be a video of great triumph or dispair, which lets face it with me and my friends, look for the humorous tragedies a lot  more often.

Should be very interesting.

This is just a snippet of the video library that I can now upload my videos through youtube directly and than put them in the widget that I downloaded from the wordpress site.

I first thought of doing some brief editing maybe some background music, which I still may, but for some reason I like the raw look of the youtube videos without any editing at all.

Since, like I said before, most of the people I play with have bad tempers, as well as I, there is some swearing which I thought would be funny to bleep as if it were on tv...

So instead of doing that, just beware when watching the videos..