Tuesday, 19 April 2011

PROJECT 1: CHANGING THE DESIGN

 page 4b in sketchbook

I've made the decision to change the fucntion of the quicksearch panel to give you recipe ideas based on how much time you have.

i also want the 'recipe of the week' to be real, and will use my database to populate it. i will have to add another field to my database to store how many times an intem has been viewed though.

I have also changed the design to make it easier to navigate, and improve the general aesthetics.





I have rearranged the headers.
I also decided to change the quicksearch panel to find a recipe based solely on how much time you have.
I also want there to be an icon explaining the main function fo the website, and displaying it prominently rather than just having a 'search' link at the top.

There is still a lot of work to be done!


I although thought i'd mention the tools that i am using to make the website: I am using netbeans and filezilla to upload the files to the server. I am not using dreamweaver or any c reative tools- i am writing the code and CSS myself. I am using http://pixlr.com/editor/ to edit the images.

I wanted to learn about writing websites myself, without using authoring tools and i am learning a lot about CSS as well as how to structure HTML andd PHP files. I am using http://www.w3schools.com/ for tips and code snippets and hints such as the code i can use for creating radio buttons and forms.

I have also decided to use tables to store my data rather than just larger images which will store data better, and i am using these two tutorials to help.
http://www.myhtmltutorials.com/table.html

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

i have finally finished the homepage, and i took an icon for the recipe section from here:
http://www.totallyfreecrap.com/Images/2009/aug/rec.gif
http://www.totallyfreecrap.com/Images/2009/aug/rec.gif
NEWS: I have just bought the domain www.siobhanmckenzie.com to host my portfolio website.

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