Since meeting I have provided him with all files containing my work and the projects I want to showcase on this portfolio site.
For this review - my dad travelled up to Leeds and again we spent a day fiddling and sorting any issues that have arisen. From this meeting I was able to see the progress of the site and help make further decisions as to how I want the pages to look as you navigate. In particular the "project pages" which the visitor to the site will be directed too upon clicking one of the tiles of my work on the home landing page. These pages are key as they provide the visitor with information about that specific piece of work / works from a project and show case the pieces as a collection on a show reel.
Visualising my website ideas for the session:
Reflection and Moving forward:
These sessions have been really beneficial not only in collaborating and seeing my website take shape, but also learning how Wordpress works from an administrator standpoint with access to plugins both predesigned and publicly accessible - but also plugins my dad has design specifically to help realise certain areas of the site.
From this session it was paramount that we left knowing I had some knowledge of how to edit and build my site alone. My dad has a million other design and UX projects on right now so cannot be working solely on my site alone. I also want to take the reigns, adjusting file sizes and uploading key information and just building the relationship with my site from a personal point of view.
With this in mind I made the following notes:
Next steps:
- Finalise the bottom footer information on the landing page. This is vital as it should hold copyright information
- Smaller file sizes to increase speed of page loads
- Write my about page
- Consider a quick "montage" - esque video for the landing page showing a variety of my practical approaches
- Header is currently a placeholder for this video / image of me
- He likes ESSCA (finally) and has warmed to the scribble / signature logo idea which no appears as a floating banner always visible as the screen is navigated.
- Continue to gather more "project" content
- Begin to populate the project pages with information about what the project is, what I hoped to achieve and the decisions I made regarding media, size and distribution etc
What my website looks like at this stage of the build:
