Site map task

Hey here are the photos from the site map ideas task.

Mike

Really like the metaphors idea. makes it more interactive and interesting to view. 

Harriet. 

bag of metaphors!

Lyndsey:

alrite guys! i have drawn this bag so i can illustrate some ideas... i think we can add some elements to the bag to create links/roll overs to make it really interactive. i thought about clips/zips/buttons but in the tutorial today some interesting ideas for metaphors were discussed.

we have already thought about some such as the camera (which i thought we could use for a caption such as keep people at home informed with what your up to... i also got some good travelling photos) also the departure board for popular destinations (the link to thins could be flight tickets - number 5), the journal and postcards.

Ones we thought of today were :

-a padlock for information on keeping safe (2).

-the bottom of the bag (7) where you keep heavy items for information on boring stuff like paperwork/injections etc that people usually put off

-a worn/leaking part of the bag(6) for information on what to do when things go wrong

-random currency (8) for information on costs.

just some ideas we can work on!! we dont have to have new pages for all of these information could appear elsewhere on the page/bag.

And the text coming out looks good . glad we can do that because love the idea. and yeah will look into colours and typography styles. 

Harriet. 

Text bag

Hey mike . Think the text bag looks really good, well done. prefer it with some of the bag drawn and some as text. more subtle. Am sketching some ideas for what can come out of the bag . will show you soon. 

Harriet. 

Text_out_of_bag

Hey again. I had ago at the text coming out of the bag. What you think?
Mike

Bag Animation

Hey peeps! I had ago at animating the type on the bag. What you think? I can change the writing to suit. Think we need a bit of colour on there. May be a bit longer. I will work on the informative type coming out the bag tonight.

Btw manage to sort out the site for next week. If you need any help ask.

Mike

Type bag

Hey this looks cool.  Think it will be too much, but its another idea :) I have also created half type half bag design too.  What you think? 

Mike.

Bag out of text

Hey!

I tried the bag out of text, looked really good but didn't send it home.  I will work more on it tomorrow before the dreamweaver lesson.

Mike 

Bag Drawing

Hey, here is the bag drawing I drew for our homepage.

Harriet

Bag idea_ time

Hey thanks for the comments. A nice new link too.  I think with the bag idea we could use type to create the bag, i will come up with a drawing tomo, may be we could get some type to move into a shape of a bag.  It would look cool.  Also we need to discuss some destinations?

see you tomo.

Sorted the time too 

Mike :) 

alsooo do you know how to change the time settings on here because i cant work it out.

o yer and i like your drawings! i really want to keep the departures board as the home page i think it is a nice idea!

hey mike!
sorry havnt had much of a chance to work this thing out this weekend. came up with some ideas in the tutorial on friday, we need to make this wbsite quite immersive which people thought would be difficult if we are focusing on countries. thought that to make it appeal to this young adults the concept of traveling around the world/gap year stuff would be good. the 10 things could be more interesting and relevant to them such as what you should pack, advice etc general things you wouldnt think of. visuals that could like with this are packing a bag, so could 'pack' the website/make it interactive, but i think we will still be able to include some of the stuff we have already researched, just thought it was a nice take on it! will discuss tomo. byeeee

Initial ideas, some simple sketches

Hello peeps, right i really like the idea of the audience as being a gap year student with a bag, I will draw a bag soon.  Here are some simple drawings that could be used as backgrounds for the site.  I just thought tho, type has to be important, so may be the bag could be made up of words, a type bag ? your constructive criticisms please. 

mike

Hey peeps! How the research coming along?  got any links, if so place in link part of the blog and get your ideas and sketches scanned and uploaded onto here.

A tip for you two, once scanned in use photoshop image size to put the resolution to 72 pixels, then the images will upload faster to the blog site.  Also change the font to verdana as i think it is more legible than some of the others.

Mike.

P.S we need to discuss what destinations we need to do, and how many.  Think if we split it up it will work fine and look good.