After reviewing the look of my website as a whole, and not just individual pieces, I decided that it really wasn't portraying what I wanted my website to do.  I wanted it to be about golf yes but for some reason the grunge look of the website wasn't really connecting the idea of the web with golf for me.

I am starting now with a really plain template and am going to revamp the entire thing, which will give me more room to play around with and hopefully put more of myself into the design.

Week 14

     

I chose a blog that was more plain than the rest, in order to make it easier for me customize and notice the customizations.  I chose the elegant grunge theme, I liked the style of the photo's with the shadow, almost polaroid effect, which gave my posts a real grunge feeling, which I thought went along with the outside nature of golf playing against the weather and so on.  The header was customized to give it a handwritten effect, which shares qualities of the scorecards used during the round.  

I wanted to use a site that was golf orientated at first, but than decided that most of them were too green, or too "golfy".  I wanted the website to be about golf, but also about me and my own personal thoughts about current golf issues and my own rounds.  Not just an informative website loaded with as much golf graphic as possible.

Week 4

start the trouble here

_composition_
When asked to create another website we were supposed to create an opposite look for the site.  My previous site had several colors, shapes and other fonts.  In contrast, this site was made with minimal colors.  Usually only one central image on each page surrounded by the white spaces with text near the bottom of the page.  very simple. very clear.


_concept_
Actually the concept was thought of by Prof Peck in class, so I decided to do a short, brief website detailing some of my ex-girlfriends I have had in the past.


_craft_
Using iweb again, i created this website from a template that was fairly simple and used white space almost as the main design concept.  Once again I published this website to my MobileMe account, and am still trying to figure out how to purchase the domain name and put several website url's together.

Week 2

This week we introduced ourselves to iweb and made a website using one of the templates.  This website was supposed to be very simple and basically show how we can manipulate different aspects of iweb and put our own feelings and design into the website.

We were told to bring in 10 or so photographs with a surrounding concept in mind.  I went to the SXU server and took photos of mine off of there from a previous visit to the Sandwich Fair, in Sandwich IL.  Many of my pictures focused on Mack trucks and emblems that were similiar.

I put some of the pictures in, created a fun little story about how Mack got started, through some dates out there and made it have the feel of an original website.  I used one of the templates given in the iweb application.

Week 3

experience i.am.will. creations

_concept_

The concept behind my website was to create something that allowed me to create an identity for myself, using things I like accompanied with past design projects I have done.  In short, it was an attempt to help people understand how I operate in a sense and how I come to the conclusions for my designs.

_craft_

I have done some brief website work before using dreamweaver, but for this project I used iweb.  Part of my style is to go against the grain so using the templates was a little annoying, so I tried to put my own style and design concept into the website.  The way I went about publishing my website was a little different than most in the class, just because I have a mobileme account.  I published my website from iweb straight to mobileme, and when I did it came up with a url that I could put into any computers web browser and arrive at my site.  I plan on buying domain names from go daddy.com, so than I can forward many different sites to my mobileme application.

_composition_

The image capture above is of the welcome page.  I tried to grab a picture that states my overall feelings and behavior with a single image.  Nothing seems to be aligned just right, and that all ties into the part of my design philosophy.

Week 1

My name is James Williams.  I played college baseball and now can finally concentrate on my other passion which is being creative and using different techniques to come up with solutions to artistic problems.  I love music, design and computers.

I chose a picture that kind of shows that I have a fun outgoing side of my personality, because for the most part I am pretty laid back and soft spoken.

_my top visited sites_

salestraining.apple.com

google.com

lynda.com (no worries, not porn)

facebook.com

hulu.com