Lab practical 1 (www.gkli-design.com)

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www.gkli-design.com

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The main objectives for this website are to promote my abilities as a designer and demonstrate my ability and knowledge that I have obtained threw out my years in college and work experience. It should express my design style and show all of the different aspects of design that I can handle.
1) Make a client interested in giving me a job or to be employed in an office.
2) Show my abilities as a Designer and a Developer.
3) Express my creativeness.
My target audience is possible Art-Directors from Graphic/web design agencies that are looking for employees, people from all creative backgrounds or potential freelance Clients in need of a project. People that are already in the field will have a much more critical eye and a better sense of my abilities, also visitors with a background in web design might check out my coding abilities. But regular freelance clients will be easier to persuade to hire me, if my website is visually interesting and simple to operate. On the other hand, in order to impress more experience designers they must see that I have a solid understanding on the basics of design, know how to incorporate it in my site, see that I follow current trends and my taste is up to date and people with coding/web experience must see that my page is weal coded flexible and uses optimized standards.
The main goal is to make the visitor look at my work and then contact me. Ultimately the sites prepuce is to impress and that impression to result into a job position or a project for hiring. The first thing that a visitor views are four buttons depicting four symbols, a Speaking pipe that symbolizing passing a message and this will stand for advertising and graphic design, a eye that stands for photography, a spider web that will stand for web design and could be also be intrepid as catching somebody’s attention and the forth one is pretty much strait forward, a brush that will stand for art work. All these links will lead the visitor without delay to view my work. And hopefully if they like what they see they can easy click on a link on the bottom of every page that will allow them to email me that instance or they could navigate to the contact me page and email me by easily submitting a form or contact me finding my contact information. Another secondary goal of the page will be to make them if not hire me then to at least book mark me for future reference, this would be achieved by adding a button in the bottom of every page that will allow the visitor to favorite or bookmark me in a variety of sites as for example Del.li.cious.com, Digg.com, twitter.com or on their browsers. Bookmarking my site on one of those pages will further promote my page to other users that search those sites and increase my sites traffic.
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What will a potential visitor benefit from a visit to my page is that he will find out that I am capable to use many platforms have knowledge on a variety of programs and fields. Only by looking at my site they will realize that I have used CSS, AS3 and html coding. They will find out that all the photography and design work is created by me and that I could use and adjust open source Ajax applications for my own benefit. This will make them realize that possibly they might only need to hire one person that can work on various aspects of a project instead of hiring separately a photographer a web developer and a graphic designer. Or maybe if the only need a graphic designer they will like to hire somebody with more versatile skills for future projects.
Visitor will not only be looking for examples of my work but most probably they will also like to read some information about me, see what past experience I might have as for example where have I worked and what projects I have worked on, my resume and most probably they would like to know what are my future goals and expectation from my career.
Navigating thru my site should be easy and effortless. To view examples of my work portrayed in a open source Ajax application known as “Shadowbox” customized to fit the site need and looks. These will be access by four buttons animated with Flash on the home page of the site and they could also be accessed by regular links on the bottom of every page this second option is added in case a visitor does not have Flash player and it also makes it easier to access from all pages. On the top right of all pages there will be a navigation bar that will prompt to the home page that will include the four buttons towards the examples of my work, a link to my biography, a link to my resume and a link to the contact form and information. At the bottom of every page there are links to all pages including the four categories of work examples for quick access.

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