Dreamweaving in Dreamweaver

As a senior preparing to graduate the State University of New York College at Buffalo in May 2016, I am glad to be able to have learned and accomplished so much during my time in COM Graphics 322. For our final project of the fall semester, the class was assigned the task of creating our own personal website used to demonstrate samples of writing and graphics that we have completed in our classes this semester. This website is going to be used as a reference for any skill samples related to my major such as public relations writing samples or graphic design and social media websites that a future employer or internship may want to see.

As part of my bio for the website, I also advertise my love for music and displayed a link to my own personal instrumentals where you can purchase beats online. Just having different skills and being able to do many things is the point of this website that I am trying to promote.

In the portfolio page, I specifically chose to upload certain graphics that display a tie in to social media. One of the uploads on this page is the Buffalo State homecoming 2015 flyer. The content of my flyer includes the official buffalo state pre football tailgate party and the homecoming football game followed by after. The overall theme of the homecoming flyer is supposed to be the trending hash tag #Unleashthebengal. This was the hash tag used on twitter to help promote and spread the news of homecoming weekend here at buffalo state. The second project that I uploaded was my Amber Rose slutwalk poster advertising when and where she is going to be having the event. This poster was based off of her real life slutwalk held in Los Angeles. The poster is meant to be advertised on her twitter.

As far as creating the website, this project has been a very fine detailed and somewhat a difficult experience for me. The class was guided step by step by the professor, and if you missed even 1 step or a small tiny little detail, your project would suffer. I missed a couple of steps such as how to link your social media profiles to the links and adding your contacts. Because of this, I needed to stay longer at class sessions to get the help that I needed to stay on pace with the rest of the class.

I designed the heading of my website with a photo of the music software that I use to produce my instrumentals in called FL Studio 11. I didn’t have any professional pictures so I just snagged one off of Facebook. At the beginning of the project, professor told us that we were going to be using more of the website coding page to the right opposed to the number coding page to the left. She was correct. The majority of all my actions in Dreamweaver were done on the right side. There wasn’t really much work to be done. The most work that was used for this project was having your graphics prepared and following the coding instructions on where to put everything.

Creating The Logo

Posted above are the 10 logo ideas tat i designed. I can only choose 5 to talk about so let's get started with number 1! 

1. In the 1st picture, 3rd column to the left is the 5th design idea for CAPTURE COLD. It's basic but yet so unique. The C* stands for Capture cold but is written wit an exponent to shorten the product name which looks cool, and has little speed marks on the C to give it the impression that it works fast.

2. The Banana Tropics logo has visual display of a hip banana as its mascot. The font of the Banana Tropics is supposed to look cool. 

3. The fro' logo is pretty simple and to the point. The faceless person was done on purpose to focus more on the hair, and the word fro' was spell without the A to give it uniqueness. 

4. The 2nd column logo to the left has the logotype and the text type combined. I tried to make the logo look "cute" by putting the 2 c's together.

5. 2nd column to the right. It's simple but get's the job done. C* stands for capture cold and whenever you see that you'll know what it means. 

 WHAT IS MY COMPANY???

The pictures posted above have 3 different companies. The first is for CAPTURE COLD which is cold and flu cough medicine designed to fight off the common cold in a quick time span. Ages 13 and up. The logo was made to keep it's professional over the counter drug appeal to it. 

The Banana logo was or a juice car called TROPICAL BANANA. The target audience would primarily be high school kids to young adults, ages 16-36. This cafe serves fresh fruit juices and smoothies. You could say it is a hipster bar. 

The FRO' logo represents hair products for the African american community. Pretty simple and to the point, the target audience sells products to blacks of any range.