Monday, December 13, 2010

Final Website

For our final website in Website Design we got to pick what we wanted to do fictional/or real, and I decided to do mine on a puppy adoption agency, below is a image of what the homepage looked like and if you want to see more click on the link below.



http://www.psuwebdesigners.com/fall_2010/Puppy%20Love/Final%20Site/index.html

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Why are you blogging?

There are different reasons people decide to create a blog, those reason being:

personal: a personal blog is just your way of letting friends and family what is going on in your life. Posting pictures of your children, letting your family know about a recent promotion.  Its just your way of communicating and updating those individuals who you don't see very often.

business: a business blog is your way of getting your name out there.  You can advertise on the blog so that hopefully people will want to purchase things from your company, apply for a job or just come see what you have to offer.  Each business is different so each blog would have a different goal of what they want to achieve by showing there blog.

portfolio: a portfolio blog is your way of showing people out there what your strengths are.  It gives you the ability to put your name out there and show exactly what you can do.  Whether it be a recent logo you designed, an outfit you just made, or a before/after shop of what the work you did on a car.  A portfolio blog can be for everyone.

Blogs aren't just a way to tell the whole world your problems and what you are doing at that specific moment, its a way of getting yourself out there. 

Group Website

My group in website design created a website for a zoo (Great Plains), it turned out fairly well and below is a peak at what we have done. I hope you enjoy it.  And if you want to see more of my work click here.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

C.D cover

This is a c.d cover I designed in my layout and design class, hope you like it.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Why Blog?

Blogging can have many different uses.  Some use it for a more personal aspect; like to update family members on what going on in their life and family.  Others use it for there businesses to communicate with employees and customers on there strengths.  And some use it as a portfolio to showcase there talent so that others can see there work!!!

Squarespace: What is it?

Square place is a hosted environment for maintaining a website, blog or even a portfolio.  ANYONE can use squarespace from the professional blogger to an author to a lawyer even.  Squarespace gives you complete control over design and any customization.

With all of these good features squarespace why pay $12 to use this blogging website when you can use blogger for free?

Reason why squarespace may be better than blogger:

* There is no overcrowding
* Gives bloggers access to multiple categories
* Clean urls
* you stand out in the blogging world



This image was found at:
*http://mashable.com/2008/07/25/squarespace-v5/

Monday, October 18, 2010

Duel: Blogger vs. Worpress

Blogger and Wordpress are the top two sites to use when wanting to create a blog for free.  Below I am going to list positive and negative aspects of both the sites so that you will be able to pick for yourself which suits you best!!!

Blogger Pros:
*easy to use templates
*you can use any type of script
*easy to use
*mobile blogging
*easy to setup and manage
Blogger Cons:
*only 1 gigabyte of space for images
*limited template options
*sometimes the site lags when loading




Wordpress Pros:
*3 gigabytes of space for images
*tags are supported by search engines
*lots of customization options
*easy to install and setup

Wordpress Cons:
*costs for style sheet editing
*more technical; for those who don't have extensive computer knowledge
*security issues



I hope the above information is helpful in helping you decide to either choose Blogger or Wordpress for your blogging needs.

You can find these and more images at:

*http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-themes/magic-8-ball-10/
*http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/02/43-incredibly-useful-collection-of-tutorials-resources-insipirations-etc-to-discover-the-best-of-the-web-in-february.html

A glimpse of what I did for my homepage

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Why

I don't really have any idea what I am doing, or why im really creating this blog.