Simple Website

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In our Graphic Design class we spent a semester working on HTML codes and the Dreamweaver program. For one of projects we had to get into a team and make a commercial website for an outdoors activities store. I cannot recall the original name of the store, but we had to use their products in our websites. We were allowed to rename our website. My partner and I both liked indie music and agreed that we'd go with an indie skateboarder design for the site. We picked the name "National" after the band "The National." On the homepage we have our favorite song done by the band embedded.

The navigation bar on the left are skateboard decks that flip over when one hovers their mouse of them. The background design is done by Bobsmade and was used with permission. We only had several hours to put this site together honestly. In the end we had a total of eight pages. Thankfully, all the links worked, everything was aligned correctly, and we had a vision and stuck with it.

The images here are screenshots from my computer using Firefox.

Motion City Soundtrack

 This is a poster from a project I had in my intro to graphic design class. It was also about the third project our class had in Illustrator and Photoshop, so we were all still learning the tools. The assignment was to make a poster for a concert (real or fictitious) for a real band. I picked a real concert that I had attended. This was also my first concert ever. This poster was made entirely in Illustrator. I got inspiration for the design of the poster from the band's album My Dinosaur Life (picture below).

 I sincerely enjoyed this project a lot. I even put time into outside of class. I Tweeted it to the band and they re-Tweeted it back out. Justien Pierre, the lead guitarist and vocalist, said, "Nice!" As a fan girl, even this one syllable recognition is fantastic. 

Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life