I
presented the website and it was too shallow lacking the essential pages and
content needed to project the image I was looking for. My professors and I
decide it was best to just stick to what I am interested in doing as a career.
I have the passion for persuasion therefore my project is now directed towards
me working on a commercial for a small town business like a restaurant or a nightclub.
I called
5 restaurants in the Hagerstown Maryland area and got spoke with two storeowners
where one declined.
I have 4
more businesses to call and set up a shoot before Thursday.
I am throwing all my previous content out and collecting free non-copyright materials from creative commons. I thought by just cropping out the faces/heads of the modeling in the images would be acceptable but i wasn't so i am starting over. The site still looks the same. I have made new brand logo images. The brand logo is actually just the name it self. The name and definitions of the five world used to make up the name pretty much symbolizes our brand.
Searching for clothes on creative commons is harder than i thought. There are more pictures of people than pictures of clothing.
Still searching and find clothes, i can say i found about 20 pieces of clothes so far...
..still searching but our web site is already built and only needs content.
I still
have more editing to do in Photoshop where I have to change the names of the
clothes and cut the head of the models off and had it into the hyperlink in the
web page. I have been creating and tweaking banners for the web site and
creating new logos and word art for the department store name. I am
almost done with the over all layout of the site. This is a photo of how the
site looks now after three face-lifts and social networks links added in. I
have to create accounts for the social networking sites and activate them. Then
I have to finish editing the clothing images and model images and add them to
the site because this is not a real company that people can order from yet I do
not need to make links to PayPal. Before I am done editing the images in Photoshop
I need to also shoot a video of me modeling some clothes that I bought and add
music to that clip and add it to the site. This is my most recent
progression.
It's been about a week and some day and i have been working hands on building with webs.com.
Now that I have all my content (clothing and accessories for the website I am
now working in Photoshop to crop and cut down on size. In Photoshop I have also
started making the images more ascetically attractive for the website. For
example I have been reducing the saturation to make the colors stand out more
to give the images that HD quality feel.
The name of my
department store was changing for a bit but now I have come to a final
discision.
First I stated off
by using a make-believe name I created thanks to my quick-witted professor name
Monica. The name was Tracys, and Stacys until I made the project a little more
person by incorporating my own title that I created sometime ago in my later
teenage life.
I've been working
with reordering the hyperlinks to the correct online retail format. The webpage
keeps on trashing because I am up loading lots of images at once. So I have
been rebooting the website.
This week after I meet with my director Jason I will shoot clips
of me modeling a few outfit for a intro video to the website.
I have started using both yola and webs to create Stacy's Department Store website. However, the department store is not called Stacy's anymore. I changed the name to the name of my clothing line promotors, BNJC. Ben and Jerry Clique is an endorser and promotors of certain clothing brands.
I created BNJC in 2007 or so when I lived in New York experiencing the city life and the freedom of not having any supervision from parents or guardian. I chose the name Ben and Jerry Clique because the ice-cream company Ben and Jerry has multiple flavors and wide variety of taste. Likewise, I have a wide variety of clothing brands that I created over the time of my late high school years and my early college years which need a larger name to be under and supported by so BNJC was created.
BNJC's website will promote only clothing and accessories like:
watches
jewelry
bracelets
rings
cufflinks
earrings
fragrances
ties
shoes
belts
perception glasses
sunglasses
baseball caps
formal caps
What medium will BNJC's use to promoted its clothing brands:
I decided to not use Adobe's dreamweaver and create the site from stratch. I decided in the most time effiencent method of using a website creating website like Yola.
Now I am only designing the frame and background of the website without adding any contents yet, I have yet to edit contents to add to the site.
I was contemplating on which tools to use when creating my website. I could either use a website that allows you to create a website for free or charge, or I could make it from scratch using Adobe's Dreamweaver. I guess I could base my decision on time, efficency, quality and the desired overall out come.
Tools:
Web Development websites: Webs.com, Yola.com, and Google Sites.
Webs
(We have a wide variety of website features to
match your needs. With a Premium Package, get a domain name, use premium
website templates, build an online store and utilize our award-winning, 24/7
support team. Drive more traffic to your site with tools that analyze and
optimize your pages. See where visitors are coming from, where they're spending
their time on site, which pages are popular and which links are clicked.)
Yola
(All Yola packages come with site statistics. See how many people are coming to your site and watch your business grow! No technical experience required! Make your free website with our easy drag & drop functionality. Everything you need is at your fingertips. Expand your reach by publishing your website to mobile phones, Facebook, and the web. Edit in one place, and publish everywhere. Start with a free website, and select the premium features you need as your business grows. With Yola, you can manage your domains, hosting, email, online store, and more, all in one convenient place.)
Google Sites
(Free website developer by Google Inc, Single-click page creation, Customizable look and feel, Dozens of pre-built templates, Settings for accessing and sharing information, It's free!)
Software Applications: Dreamweaver and Visual Site Designer:
Dreamweaver:
Visual Site Designer:
I am going to be basing my choice on what is required for my project and what are the overall essentials that I intend/want to see in the end result. I have to do more planning and decide what features will be need for the final product of the website's design. I think im am swaying more towards using a web creating website so it can cut out the process time and it brings security and ease.
