Stil making progress...

This semester overall has been an extremely tough one. I'm being pulled in many different directions, but I'm happy that I've been able to rise to the occasion and focus my energy to what is important: creating work that I am proud to show off.

For the last few days I have been spending a disgusting amount of time researching and organizing and trying to spew out this 12 page paper for my Romanticism and Realism class. So unfortunately, the website progress has been forced to slow down. The paper is due tomorrow afternoon and once again I can shift my brain back to the website.

After class today, I bought a thumbnail scroller from Flashden.net and will have to spend about 2 or 3 hours reverse engineering it to fit my current gallery. Thankfully, Casey mentioned that I should probably get rid of the "1 of n" at the top of the photo and the buttons on either side of the photo since they will both be unnecessary with the thumbnail viewer.

In other news, Alyson and I are putting together a poster for our photo class' exhibition scheduled for May 1st! More details to come. There are so many things that are exciting and scary about this show, but I am just thankful to have the experience and to be able to beef up my design section while I'm at it.

website version 1.0 up and running

First draft of the website is up! Changes that still need to be made: thumbnails for easier control/navigation in the gallery, flash intro. But it will do for now. allisonboozer.com

Progress

So after showing my website skeleton in class, I made some small changes. I changed my font and took out some of the | that were in between some of the links. I also changed the "documentary" link to a "design" link, since it was the only thing missing from a website called "photography and design." The gallery will be blank at first, but soon I will have some flyers and maybe some web design to add to the gallery.

As a whole, I am actually ahead of schedule which feels pretty good. Stay tuned!

Site Look-and-Feel

So. Today I finished going through my past photography work. I had to not only pick what I wanted to show on the site, but I also had to resize them to be the same deminsions (800px x 533px). My page is 1000 px x 650 px. I figure most screens can see that without having to scroll in either direction. The goal is that the viewer never has to scroll within the site. I completed my mock-up, as shown above. I will let it sit for a while and come back to it in a few hours to see if I still like it. Oh, I also bought a complete hosting/domain package with Hostmonster. Coming soon: allisonboozer.com!

Organization

Currently going through my gobs and gobs of photos to try and find the right ones. My organization is sad. Eventually I'll find the time to go back through and sort through everything.

updated site map

After browsing more sites and remembering my goal of easy navigation, I have decided to make event photography, fine art photography, and documentary photography links on the top of my page. Of course they will only say "event" and "fine art" and "documentary" for brevity's sake.