Today I collected a lot of Portfolio designs and such for my Efolio. I found some Photoshop documents from this year that I already put in my flash folio, but I couldn't the Photoshop CD from Graphic Design freshman year. I am going to look a little harder when I get home today, and put some designs that I have done at home on a flash drive and import them to the Library in my portfolio in flash. I'm super excited. I learned a lot today, and played around in Photoshop with a lot of healing brushes. I experimented with the new Patch tools in CS6, and the Spot healing brush and Healing brush tools, they have changed a lot!

Today I worked on my Portfolio, and I was setting up different pages. I got my Portfolio page completely set up, so tomorrow I really hope that I can start setting up different Photoshop designs and things that I have made in the past, maybe in Mrs. McNaneys Graphic Design I took in Freshman Year. I think I still might have the CD, but I'm not positive. I really hope I do, so I can expand my portfolio page even more than just the designs that I have made this year. I also set up a few more pages, including pages about my past jobs, credits, etc. All of them have the same theme as my home page, which I am really proud of. I just cant wait to start filling in the pages. I learned a lot of stuff, and I'm still expanding on ActionScript and it's variables. It's really fun!

Today I really learned some fascinating new stuff! I really experimented with the new flash. We have a Flash CS6 book in the classroom that is really helpful when you want to have a physical book at your side and reading it, rather than dual screening it up on your monitor. I really like the book, but this Flash CS6 has a huge learning curve compared to CS3. I like CS6, it's just that it is a lot more different and a lot more complicated than what they could have made it. I am a huge fan of Adobe, but it's really complicated and frustrating sometimes!

Today is day 15! I have really worked mostly on my website today. Figuring out CSS, and refreshing my memory from a year ago has been such a blast. I'm really liking the book that was bought from Amazon, and I'm raelly getting into itl. It has really nice examples and is a good stair step teaching skill. It's a really nice book, and a lot of thought was gone into writing about HTML5. It's pretty simple, when you get down to it. I'm really liking everything, and CS6 is helping me so much with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash. CS3 was holding me back, but now this CS6 software is really helping.

Today I perfected animations in my Portfolio, and I decided to have my navigation bars sort of float in, not a quick slide in. I'm still a little concerned about the rest of it. I'm not sure exactly how to make the entire navigation bar enter, or if I should just have it all come in at the same time. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with it, but I'm going to visit some other Flash websites to try to get a grasp on the whole Navigation entrance. I think it's a very important aspect of a website, so I'm going to work really hard on it.

Day 13

Today has been a very productive day! But hard to keep on track. I always have a plan when I come into this class, expand portfolio, have a better website, whatever the case may be. Always about 10 minutes in, I find out something new with an Adobe program, or html, or something, and I always side track and do a lot of it. I mean, I still get the goal done. Expand Portfolio, but I go above and beyond on something else. I guess it's a positive, but I have just really noticed that I do it. Today I'm checking out NetworkSolutions, because GoDaddy has failed me. I just trust NetworkSolutions more, because GoDaddy hackings happen a lot. I just want a Site with no ads, and complete HTML control editing. Apparently my expectations are too high!

Day 12

Edit: Today is actually 9/13/2012, because last class period Blogger would not let me post! So I wrote this, and now I am copying and pasting it from a Word Document.

Today I have messed around with Flash, and seen the new features. The perspective tool is really cool, so you can change at which angle you are seeing a graphic from. I've been importing a lot of things, which is always taking a while. So I ended up just converting a lot of my .PSD files to .JPG files, which are much smaller. Today we got uninterrupted by a Fire Drill, which has really cut down on a lot of time! I would like this block to be a lot longer. I'm really glad that our school has new computers, because I could not run the 3 Adobe programs at the same time like I have been doing all hour and not end up waiting for a few days. I'm really glad we got this upgrade, and I think that I have been ignoring the fact that we have.

Today I took the hour and forty five minutes of class and looked at fonts, design, and colors. I learned some really neat facts about how the brain takes in colors. Like what colors are easier to look at than others. Red and black are a very popular color scheme for people in school, just because it looks really neat. When really, red and black are extremely hard on the eyes. It's really hard to focus and read. Same with a colorful or busy background. That's why it's really easy to focus on white, like word documents or different text documents. White and black are the biggest contrasting colors, so that's the default. But default is boring! So I need to go with a Sans-Sarif font that's easy-on-the-eyes, and same with a background. I think that it would be really good if I had a page that was easy to look at first, then organize it.

The ninth day!

I'm still working on my flash Portfolio. It's coming along really nicely. I have figured out a title, and I made a nice fancy navigation bar. I really like it, it has a total of four slides. so far. This hour went by really fast, so I don't have a lot of time to blog. Today I really got refreshed on ActionScript, since the last time I used it was a year ago in Web Design I. I have now remembered how to make buttons, and the different tags such as gotoAndPlay (slide#); I didn't really learn a lot of new material today, just got refreshed on a lot of past subjects. The HTML5 book is working out really nicely, and I'm glad I got it. Even in my free time I crack open the book and start coding right at home. I've also studied the design of my Portfolio. Like what colors, fonts, designs, etc. Going with THE font for your website is a tough process. Lots of times it's not really taken seriously and into deep consideration, but to me it is actually very important. Not only does it have to be easy on the eyes, but it has to really express the words. Make a bold statement, or a fun goofy sentence. Font matters!