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Bluedette is the design portfolio of an aspiring digital designer named Adrianne Marie. This site contains some of her best work, primarily from her past class projects as well as for her personal pleasure. She hopes to have a chance to actually enter in the digital designing field, whether if it was from web designing, graphic designing, or anything that is digitally creative. For now, this is a display of her works, as well as her small side business as a freelancer.
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- XHTML 1.0 Strict
- CSS 2.1
- Section 508
- 1024x768 & up
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Design Styles
Remember in the "old days" of web designing that everyone thought that if the site is neat and clean with a heavy load of graphics that they feel that they would be considered "elite"? My preferred design style through my creations would always be both simplistic and pleasing to the eye. It's always been that way, even back in the "graphics heavy" days of web design. I can add a some fancy factors here and there, as long as the overall aspects of the design are accessible and easy to everyone's eyes. Also, my style differs depending on the theme or subject of the product and how design can grab its target audience to the product. Nowadays, digital designs, especially web designs, are getting a lot simpler and less complicated due to certain accessibility standards, but a little bit of both simple and complex can compliment together very well. In addition to that, my design styles also vary, depending on what my inspiration or mood that I have at that time.
Web Coding
There really isn't such thing as "web coding styles", but I think this refers more towards the method of coding websites. Many use the robust features of professional web editors such as Dreamweaver or GoLive (which I believe no longer exists due to the Adobe and Macromedia merge...), while others still boast around with their hand-coding skills using Notepad.
Although I use Dreamweaver, I started my web designing days by using Notepad, but due to my "weak eyes " in spotting the smallest mistakes in the coding (I'm near-sighted and do not wear contacts) that I needed another tool that would help me catch mistakes easily without straining my eyes staring at the screen, looking in to every line of code to see where the bug is located. Dreamweaver has a code view feature, displaying the skeleton coding of the page that you are working on and the tags and attributes segregated by different colors. Not only that it helps me get more familiar with the inner cores of (X)HTML and CSS, but I also find it easier for me to catch those bugs and immediately fix them. I could have used HomeSite itself (not installed in my PC because I don't really need it), but I wanted to use one software and learn how to use Dreamweaver in both ways. On the other hand, many professional designers have been using Dreamweaver and similar web editing programs to produce websites, since we are talking about deadlines to get the whole website projects completed. It is indeed much faster to complete website projects using web editors rather than using Notepad. I do not see anything wrong with people relying more on website editors and people who prefer customized hand coding, as long as they actually know how to code with web standards and accessibility standards at the same time. No one is better than the other just by methods alone, but these methods are all personal preferences.
Lately I started using Notepad++ for any quick updates or quick bug-fixings on sites. It's a lot more robust than your usual Notepad. I recommend using this program a lot for all you hardcore scripters and programmers out there. Besides, it's open source, which means, you won't have to pay a penny to install this program in your system.
Concentration...?
Everytime I create something out of digital art programs it makes me feel like a real artist, just as much as creating some form of artwork by hand, especially for someone who is no expert in traditional drawing skills. However, web designing caught my eye alongside graphic designing. I'm quite scared of computer programming, but when HTML and CSS were introduced, I became confident that I could learn such a very simple language just to create website. I'm still scared of computer programming, especially when we have to add dynamic content such as javascript, DHTML, PHP/mySQL, and the king of all that is web designing, Flash. I wish to gain expert skills on those fields one day and I'm working my way there.
I still do some occassional graphic designing. As a start I design and print invitations and flyers for my family and friends, as well as doing volunteer work at organizations and public places for any tasks related to digital design. I hope that I can have a head start in entering the designing field by becoming a full-time designer and be part of a promising designing team (with high profile clients!).
traditional art...?
I have done some traditional art during childhood to my high school years, but because of the outdated technology then, I was not able to save my old traditional artwork (they're completely lost out there; it was probably lost when my family and I moved to a new home, which where we are right now). My traditional art consists of silkscreen printing, a little bit of cartooning/illustration, but my main artistic strength then was calligraphy. I loved doing calligraphy on "old world " documents, as well as creating some kind of an elegant "old world" stationery or a "parchment" with some kind of artwork along with it. Sadly I've lost interest by the time I hit the college years and sort of neglected it. I do plan on getting back in to calligraphy, and with addition, expand my skills in to studying Asian caligraphy (primarly Chinese and Japanese). In addition, I bought a sumi-e kit just recently but have not started painting yet, so I plan to get in to sumi-e painting as well.
Another "traditional art" that I do is photography. Well, I don't really know if photography is considered traditional art, but photography itself has been evolved in to something digital, so I guess today, Photography is considered both? I also do photography as my hobby, primarily on nature, landscapes, and scenery though. I'm not too much of a portrait/human study photographer though, but I don't mind if there is a chance.
I might open a section of this portfolio site where I also include my traditional artwork, but not right now. I don't have anything to present yet.