Documentation

CMS Hack documentation at:

CMS3 Documentation

Learning Experience

I got good feedback in class about my site and what needs to be done.
I'll try google maps saved, and also will search for a free rating plug-in.
I do plan to use this site for my food photography so I'm working hard on learning how to customize wordpress.

This was a good experience overall in something I will use again.

Changed the header

Yes, I know I have problems, it took me an hour to figure out my extension was wrong.. it was suppose to get a JPEG not PNG, mm yes I am genius.. slowly customizing this one by one.

Almond Chai so far

Progress

Downloaded a new theme, inlove and got it to work!
Now to customizing it.

Wordpress Site woes

theres so much to learn and do....
http://www.foodbuzz.com/restaurants


Right now, I'm contemplating on what to do for my wordpress. There's so many possibilities! I've been thinking about doing my own theme.

merghghfdlk

finals, exploding!
The Satorialist
going to relax and look at photos.

Yay! New wordpress

After two hours of figuring out how to point my domain name and such, I present to you:

http://almondchai.com/blog/

I love almond, I love chai. Now I can really customize my page.

The most trouble I was having was the my php admin page and directing my domain to my hosting site. That took a long time to figure out where to get all the information.

Foodgawker

Foodgawker

Kinda imitates Tastespotting but just as delicious. mmmmm

Domain names...

I have been dilberating my domain name. I want it to reflect me, but not be so boring like taradesigns.com Also no one can spell my last name, so I wouldn't want people to suffer through that.
I like hippos and elephants.

elephantdesigns.com
patternedelephant.com
elephantsvshippo.com

I have to think this out....

Buying a domain name

I'm buying a domain name soon because the free wordpress is pissing me off.
The flickr sideshow wont work on it and I want to do more interesting things to my site. I want to add google maps into my posts so I plan to get my domain.

Wordpress Site

So i worked on making site customizable for now.
I'm a little frustrated with trying to make flickr work on my site,
but I guess you get what you pay for which is free for me.
Wordpress
Tried adding widgets, which I think is easier than google!


My main problem now is trying to make the pictures show up.
Sorry Singer it's easier for me than google.

Flickr damn you

I love flickr but just so ugh!
Wordpress free sucks monkeys. I have been working on this thing for like hours now.

http://www.tastespotting.com/

Tastespotting


I love this site so much. Do not go if you are hungry.
I think they did a great job in the web design. Simple yet mouthwatering.

Collecting information.

I have been collecting a lot of data over the days.
My wordpress site will be awesome.

Wordpress site!

Click here

I am very excited. I hope to make something beautiful.

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

Little People

A photographer who uses miniature figurines around London. Uses his blog as his website.
I wonder what is better, wordpress or blogger? I guess it depends on your usage.

http://atmosphir.com/

Atmosphir

This is an online game where people can create levels for games and have other people play it too. A very interesting and new way to interact with people through websites.

MoodBoards

For some reason mine didn't come out, so here we go again.

From DAI 527 Website Design

From DAI 527 Website Design

Concept, Moodboard, Scope Content Outline.

CONCEPT: My concept for my CMS will be restaurants I have eat at throughout the semester. People will be able to add their own comments on the restaurants and the food I have eaten there. I will add google maps, yelp reviews and my own photos of the place.



Scope Content Online:

Website Content outline

1.) Index
2.) Posts
3.) About
4.) Links

2.) My posts will be separate entries describing in detail, where I ate, who I recommend this food to , and how to get there. I will obtain photos of the place as well.
3.) Will be a general overview of who I am and why I do this.
4.) Links to other great food places.
Yelp.com
http://www.tastespotting.com/
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/

Napang Design

Napang Designs

A cool thai graphic designer.

กราฟิกดีไซน์คืออะไร?

ในส่วนนี้เปิดขึ้นมาเชิญชวนให้นักออกแบบกราฟิกทุกท่านร่วมแสดงความคิดเห็น
ในหัวข้อ “กราฟิกดีไซน์ คืออะไร?” หรือ “นักออกแบบกราฟิกคือใคร?”

ปัจจุบันมีนักออกแบบกราฟิกมากมายในสังคม กระจายอยู่ในองค์กร กลุ่ม สถาบัน
หรือทำงานตามลำพัง รวมไปถึงทัศนคติทางการออกแบบ รูปแบบการทำงาน สื่อที่ใช้
ล้วนแล้วแต่มีความหลากหลายอย่างมาก ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ทางโครงการสนใจที่จะรวบรวม
มุมมองหรือนิยาม (ที่มีเสรีภาพและปราศจากการตัดสินคุณภาพ)
จากคำถามกว้างๆ เพื่อเป็นการรวบรวมและสะท้อนให้เห็นความหลากหลายนั้น
อันจะก่อให้เกิดการร่วมกันมองเห็นภาพรวมของวิชาชีพนี้ได้ชัดเจนขึ้น

หวังว่าคงจะได้รับความร่วมมือในการแสดงความคิดเห็นจากทุกท่านนะครับ
และใคร่ขอขอบคุณและขอแสดงความเคารพในความคิดเห็นของทุกท่านไว้ ณ โอกาสนี้

หมายเหตุ : ท่านสามารถลงชื่อในการแสดงความคิดห็นหรือไม่ก็ได้
แต่อยากให้ลงสถานภาพทางวิชาชีพที่คิดว่าเป็นประโยชน์ต่อการรวบรวม
เช่น ตำแหน่งหรือลักษณะงาน / เป็นนักศึกษาชั้นปีใด ภาควิชาใด เป็นต้น

Pingmag and Japanese design

Even though Pingmag closed it doors a year ago, I still love to browse through the archives.
Pingmag issues

You work for them
Supplies a lot of japanese design magazines. too bad print is dying!

Work done before

Website layout done in photoshop, ideas before the final one came to be.

From DAI 527 Website Design

From DAI 527 Website Design

From DAI 527 Website Design

From DAI 527 Website Design

WEBSITE DONE!

Yay!

Yay.

I love typography

I love typography
Upscale Typography
I think this is a great website to keep updated on issues of typography.
Typography should be considered carefully in web design and not just treated as another element, but something tying the piece together.
Sometimes bad typography ruins a website and we as web designers need to be aware of that.

Update about Website

So I came up with a few layout and for now I have a highly simplified layout. I want to do more graphics but I guess I should concentrate on the content before moving on.
Dreamweaver is a bit complicated and I'm still use to coding in Notepad, but its all good.

Mood Board

Scope Outline

Intro Content: Welcome to my Sim City fan-based website. I hope that through this website you can learn more about this game and its possibilities.

About: In this site you will find a indepth tutorial of how to work Sim City, and a gallery overview of the kinds of cities you can create.

What: What is Sim City? Sim City is a city-building simulation computer game created by Maxis games. The

Maxis company is more currently famous for their Sims games which is more about creating humans and

Personal interaction. Maxis specializes in simulation games of all sorts such as roller coasters, buildings,

people and even whole organisms (SPORE).

Simcity overview: The objective of SimCity, as the name of the game suggests, is to build and

design a city, without specific goals to achieve (except in the scenarios, see below). The player

can mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, change the tax rate,

build a power grid,build transportation systems and many other actions, in order to enhance the city (Wikipedia).

TUTORIAL: As you can see you first start off with a map of land where you can choose to place your city.

When you choose a spot, you can render the land to how you see fit.

In this Picture I show you all the aspects of the game that appear when you first start. It may seem daunting at first,but it gets easier as you start.

Here is a Youtube video showing a start up tutorial to Sim City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo5ELFXMYpI

Gallery:

FARMLAND: You can create a peaceful countryside town. farm.jpg

URBAN SPACE: How about a city with a popultion of over 2 Million? urban.jpg

SUBRUBAN PLACE: Every 1950's dream place. suburb.jpg

LINKS- Here are links to the other areas of Sim City 4 that you might find interesting.

http://www.sc4ever.com/

http://www.simtropolis.com/

http://simcitysocieties.ea.com/index.php

Communication Brief

Tara Phettaphong

DAI 525-SInger

Sim City 4
Communication Brief

1.)
The basic overview of this site is to give beginners an overview of
what Sim City 4 and what they can create in the game. Sim City 4 is a
simulation game where users can create cities and must maintain them
accordingly as a real city planner would.

2.)
The single purpose of this site is to show people the potential of
Sim City 4.

3.)
The secondary goal is to get people to interested in playing the game
and interact with others.

4.)
Long-term goal maybe for people to show off their cities underneath
different categories.

Audience Profile:

1.)
My audience is the casual gamer looking for creation based games to
play on their computer. My average audience would probably be those
who want to see what Sim City can do or they themselves play the
game.

2.)
A typical task the user might perform is browsing the various cities
other users create and how the user could improve their city and so
forth.

3.)
I want the user to see this site as a friendly and simple way of
getting introduced the game, and a place where they can visit
repeatedly and interact with other people.

Perception/Tone/Guidelines

1.)
I want them to feel at ease through browsing through my site, and
feel at ease on posting their content on the site.

2.)
I hope to be able to design the site in such a way that people are
not intimidated by the amount of information presented to them.

3.)
Fan Friendly, but still professional and caring.

4.)
The website should have many images, but still be able to load fast
and quickly.

Communication Strategy:

1.)
This is a site where people can get together and show their city
plans. It will also be easy for first time users to get acquainted
with the game.

2.)
I will convey the message on the first home-page and perhaps through
the title.

3.)
When people can navigate it easily.

Competitive Positioning:

1.)
My company will differ in that it will appeal to the Sim City
beginner who just want to look at visuals in a comprehensive place. I
might compile a list of places where people can find information
easily without having to search through many sites at once. The
current sites are heavy competition since they already have a large
fan-base and more resources complied than I do.

Sim City

My site will be about Sim City 4!