Introspection: Design change

Throughout my college career the design process has involved concept development, inspiration, idea gathering, critiques with shared creative points of view which has been a very progressive process in design development. This project has added a new twist in the process, which is to create a new look while including an existing logo, color schemes and images.

In combination with the creative process is learning to transform the design into a functioning web page using HTML5 and CSS3. I am excited to use some of the new CSS3 design features that eliminate the usual required use of Java Script. It is just a bit more challenging as not all the browsers support it.

References that I have been using are:

CSS3 For Web Designers, by Dan Cederholm which introduces the new CSS3 features and how to add code for browsers that don't yet support it such as adding dashed prefixed keywords and the beginning of the property name.

HTML5 For Web Designers, by Jeremy Keith.

This book also introduces the new features of HTML5 and adds instructions on how to code so browsers will be able to use the new HTML5 elements such as adding script in the head element (document.createElement('header');.

HTML5 by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp.

This is similar to the above book just a bit more in-depth.

I have also been using Bill Weinman's HTML Essential Training on Lynda.com from which I have learned the fundamentals of coding a web page.

Progress so far on the home page: Missing are the top and side navigation.