I have been working on the site till now; I was using tables in Dreamweaver as I find it easy to handle the tables more than the divs. The reason why I avoid divs is due to the fact that I find it hard to position them where I want. I understand that divs are as good as tables or better but positioning has always been the problem with me. After showing my work to the lecturer I was suggested to use the divs rather than tables. Even with tables I was having one problem with layers. I wanted the text to have its own layer and appear on top the images which would allow me to edit later on. The layer appears but floats around the page. I changed the site from tables to divs and my problem still remains. Now I only have to find out a way to position the text layer exactly how I want it to appear on the page.
The index page has flash interactivity where the icons are drag able within a certain space. I looked at many sites randomly before doing the flash work as I wanted my site to have the feel of contemporary design.
The dragging icon idea emerged from a site by Shawn Mcdonald mentioned in my previous blogs http://www.otterball.com/ and influence to change my layout of projects page came from http://www.icodesign.co.uk/work/identity
Now I have to encounter two problems rather than one. One is to fix the text layer and second is to work out how tags work.
Just making the layout has taken me 3 weeks and I still have to add the projects under the icons shown on the project page, some of them will be external links as the themes and concept of them are totally different so I think they will work better on their own, rest need to be added to the site I’m working on. The site is turning out to be bigger than I thought and still has a lot to do.
