BMG Online Space

The Page for Placement

Today was my last day and I had to show Jan my final design of the Lymington map I had come up with, he liked it a lot. I said good bye to everyone and thanked them all for the experience.

I took the aerial shots and decided to make an interactive map designed and built with Adobe Macromedia Flash with drag-able content so that it could be a set size.

I had an idea to use google earth aerial shots into my design. So I cut out and pasted into my Illustrator document and tried it that way. That didn’t work in Illustrator but gave me an idea of how it could work.

I showed Jan what I had so far, I then started to draw the shops on as squares. But it didn’t look right and I had not left enough space for the market stalls. Time for plan B.

I was asked to design and build a map of Lymington high street with the positions of the shops and market stalls to go onto the Lymington dot com website. The first thing I did was to use Adobe Illustrator to draw out the high street with all the different roads coming of it.

I came up with a design and showed Jan my ideas for the Buzios website and CMS’s.

I started searching on google for open source content management system’s (CMS’s) for each section of the site I was working on yesterday, as these are normally free.

I was asked to design a new website that would be called Buzios, this site would be a combination of different content management system’s (CMS’s), and there had to be a calendar, photo upload and to view plus an area to post news. This website was for a sailing boat called Buzios that Jan’s friends and family could use and leave information about their time on the boat and when they use it. The first thing I did was to start looking for the right type of font to go into the design and images to use.

After finding a layout that worked I had some help building the actual webpage as they used CSS to construct webpages at Brief 8, as I am not familiar with this type of code.