Challenge Week 1: Sketches

The site that I will be creating will be geared towards marketing my skills as a graphic designer to potential employers looking for some basic design work to be completed. Seeing that I want to try my hand at freelance work to gain experience and extra cash, the site will be an easy gateway for potential employers to see the type of work that I am capable of. The site will be flashed based, which will allow interactivity and motion. If time permits I would like to have a HTML site to complement the flash site. It will also offer an alternative to people without flash player installed to still have access to my site. The hard part in this whole challenge will be to keep it simple and not go crazy on the flash stuff. Yes, I must exhibit some self control, which will be difficult because I like all those flashy pretty things.

Sections:

• Home Page
  
• About/Biography
  
• Resume Section
  
• Portfolio
  
• Contact
  

Image 1:

Static page: 

• The browser window will pop up in the position of the static image and then will load and animate.
  
• It will check if flash player is installed. 
  
• The browser will be right t the edge
  
• I want to go with the whole idea of the thought process of my ideas. Developing and then reformatting into new ideas.
  

Image 2:

Portfolio Section:

This section will be set up a little bit differently then the main sections.

Components of this section

• Image system with specs/rationale (the image area has to be flexible in regard to size)
  
• Titles of Artwork
  

Image 3:

Main page/Portfolio:

• I was thinking of having any page be the home page.
• The menu section will be compacted on the bottom left hand side of the content area. When clicked it will scroll out to reveal the other section of the site.
• I still have to figure out how to transition from one section to the other.

These sketches will be further refined and sketched out.