We were happy with what we achieved but had some extra time so we worked on it a little further to really nail out the fine details and shape our functional site into something with a bit more fun. It was at a state of usability but we wanted to really satisfy the Real Hot Bitches and make it super sweet, so now with a bit of a rework we can say check it out!
www.real-hot-bitches.co.nz
Listen to some 80's tunes and browse a very entertaining gallery!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Big Plans
Even though the Ymedia challenge is over we still continue on working with the Real Hot Bitches within the time frame that we have through Natcoll. Our second deadline is on Thursday 21st August. By then we plan to have developed the website further. We are going to make the width of the site wider so that the grey background doesn't take over the actual body of the site. We also plan to develop the header further to be more eye catching. We are changing the side nav to links to images and videos and moving the nav bar underneath the header.
Thats all for now
-Sam
Thats all for now
-Sam
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Credits
Team three D is
Alex
Kelly
& Sam
We would also like to thank Peter Johnson for his help with high tech web stuff
and the Real Hot Bitches for being awesome and rad and really good to work with.
Alex
Kelly
& Sam
We would also like to thank Peter Johnson for his help with high tech web stuff
and the Real Hot Bitches for being awesome and rad and really good to work with.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Final Summary
Its almost over...
Its been an interesting road, with many challenges overcome and a lot of new skills picked up along the way. The Real Hot Bitches have been great to work with, they have a crazy style and all the Bitches we met were really cool.
From the start we expected the process to be a learning experience, being a team of graphic designers developing a website was always going to be challenging but it was a lot of fun too.
The key to our brief and to the whole yMedia thing was sustainability and accessibility, originally we started off using the silverstripe cms to create a site that had a userfriendly backend and allowed easy content updating and editing. However this was not to be, with silverstripe not working with the setup the RHBs already had we had an emergency switch to another cms, Wordpress.
Wordpress let us port over most of the code and art we had struggled through and was almost exactly the same as silverstripe in terms of backend capabilities.
The other consideration we had was that the RHBs wanted a new look for their site in addition to the usability overhaul, this was more what we are trained in creating and we liaised at length with the Bitches on what they wanted the new site to look like and be able to do.
In the end it came together and we had a great experience.
Its been an interesting road, with many challenges overcome and a lot of new skills picked up along the way. The Real Hot Bitches have been great to work with, they have a crazy style and all the Bitches we met were really cool.
From the start we expected the process to be a learning experience, being a team of graphic designers developing a website was always going to be challenging but it was a lot of fun too.
The key to our brief and to the whole yMedia thing was sustainability and accessibility, originally we started off using the silverstripe cms to create a site that had a userfriendly backend and allowed easy content updating and editing. However this was not to be, with silverstripe not working with the setup the RHBs already had we had an emergency switch to another cms, Wordpress.
Wordpress let us port over most of the code and art we had struggled through and was almost exactly the same as silverstripe in terms of backend capabilities.
The other consideration we had was that the RHBs wanted a new look for their site in addition to the usability overhaul, this was more what we are trained in creating and we liaised at length with the Bitches on what they wanted the new site to look like and be able to do.
In the end it came together and we had a great experience.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
So its all up and going!
So after a long and bumpy road our website is finally uploaded and working with most of the features we set out to achieve. We are happy with the final outcome!
www.real-hot-bitches.co.nz
www.real-hot-bitches.co.nz
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