The Web Designer’s Copyright Crash Course

The intellectual property is copyright, patents and trademarks. Intellectual property is a work or invention that is the result of creativity.  A copyright protects an original artistic or literary work, a patent protects an invention, and a trademark protects a brand name. That means that anything that has a copyright can not be copied when it is someone else’s idea. For example, a drawling, photo, song. To explain “work for hire”, That’s when someone else hires you to take the photo or write the article; or when an employee creates a work within the scope of his or her employment. Work that you create can be claimed as “work for hire” depending on who you are working for like a company or yourself. Copyright can show you that if you were to take someones work without coping or giving them recommendation then you are to get your client’s site shut down. You are able to get the web site shut down by there internet service provider and also be able to sue for someone stealing your work without approval. You can protect yourself from irresponsible or ignorant clients by having your name writing on your work and legally making sure that no one can steal your work.

https://www.sitepoint.com/the-web-designers-copyright-crash-course/

Reflection 11/30/18

This week was not the best week. We worked on illustrator this new project we started call the polygonal Animal Project. The project over all isn’t a bad project. For my animal i did a penguin with a background gradient that goes from blue starting at the bottom to fade to white. It kinda looks like the sky in the background with the blue and then the white is like the penguin standing on ice. We are ahead on our class so my teacher is making me do two and i decided that the second one will also be a animal, its going to be a colorful butterfly! I tried to put my penguin on behance but of course it decided to not work because it says that the size is smaller then 632 pixels when i made my art board 3,000 pixel so that is annoying that the scales don’t match up. I also tried to upload my butterfly but it also will not work along with a lot of my work so i haven’t been able to upload and its really annoying that i can’t put my work on the website because i know its big enough because i had sure that my art board was bigger then the minimum.

How to Succeed as a Freelance Developer

There are many different tips that web designers use when creating a web site. First there is always getting your pricing right. Pricing can be a lot different depending on if its a one-man job or if its a large agency job for a big group of people. The pricing also goes by how much you do the work and how much effort you put in and how the final outcome looks by the end. Another tip is to also be prepared, also being ready to work together with others. You have to make sure that you process us smooth and a fast going process because of the limited time you have to work. Setting lead times for yourself is always a good idea because it keeps all your work organized and you wont double book yourself and create so much work that you never finish and then you lose people for you business. You always wanna plan at least two or three months i advance. outsourcing your host can be very time-consuming and profitable. Sometimes things do go wrong they are servers bought and then paid for by the customers. There also is strike up partnership where you may have to reach out and ask for a helping hand in a certain part on your project. There is charge for maintenance and that is clients who sell online and they are always seeking an edge over the competition. Lastly, there is charge for training and that is building for training client because usually the clients have no idea or certain type of background of whats going on in the system.

https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/how-to-succeed-as-a-freelance-developer

5 Principles of Cuteness in Web Design

They are five different types of cutenesses in web design. The first on is Imagery, you have to just taking something cute, throwing it into your design and thats how you will get your completed look overall. Second you have colors, colors are always warm pretty colors that make the viewer enjoy and have postive vibes then being sad, mad or upset while looking at your work. Then you have the other kinds of cuteness like making people have warm and fuzzy feelings which is that you are making the work comforting and understanding. The work “cute” can we used in many ways throughout the work, for example when about fashion. You wanna use things that are cute but you don’t wanna be saying and having the work cute all over the page so that cuteness is in the copy. Concepts like “elegance” are inherently visual, and so designing them into a website is a purely visual exercise. Lastly, there is cuteness in details for this the article talks about how you want to have little cute pictures, color or words to have a good website but you never wanna over do it. When having “cute” you don’t wanna over saturate your website with cute vibes because you don’t wanna annoy the people that are viewing your work.

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/11/5-principles-of-cuteness-in-web-design/

Reflection 11/9/18

This week we worked on more Adobe Illustrator. For our exercise we were given pen tool exercises. It was a fun exercise for the first and second one because I was just drawling lines by tracing what we had. The first one was like a maze we had to go from beginning to end with the pen tool making different lines either going up, down, side ways or diagonal. Then the second exercise we have to follow the pattern is all about making five different lines side by side all different sizes. Third is all about creating different shapes like a lighting bolt, a star and a v shape. Exercise four is all about all different types of curves. We did bumps, swirls, hearts and clovers. Exercise five was another start to finish but we had to create different shapes to get to the end. First it was different shapes that looked like one building after another and then there was hills are tree with little grass. Six was so hard and I actually really hated it and it couldn’t be something we had to do. I enjoyed illustrator up to that point but after making the point it was the worst thing ever and I never wanna do it again.

Reflection 11/2/18

This week was pretty good because it was Halloween! Happy Halloween! The week started off really boring because we have been just working on chapters Monday was chapter nine, then Tuesday was chapter ten and then chapter eleven was Wednesday. Thursday we worked on chapter twelve, after tech class I didn’t go to south because it’s senior skip day. Luckily you got to see me at tech because i decided to go because i wasn’t really feeling like getting a zero. Friday we worked on chapter twelve and the excise i have not done because its a very confusing you tube video we have to follow by and it doesn’t work when I do it. We don’t have the right font so when I am trying to work with getting the correct look it’s just coming out and It’s really annoying. By the end of the week I am actually on chapter fourteen that i will be working on and will finish by Friday and then next week I will be starting chapter fifteen and that means that i will be finishing up illustrator by next week and then starting another project for illustrator and then moving on to our next project will be WordPress.

Top 10 Reasons Why Illustrator CC Is Great for Web Design

illustrator is great for the web because of many different reasons. One being because of the resolution independence which is all about working in the printing world, illustrator is inherently vector-oriented, or based on “points and math”. There is also PNG, GiF, and JPG that are not the correct format but they are able for you to use in designing but that just means you need design a lot more by yourself. You can also apply with using hosted and icon fonts like being able to use type kit library also use icon fonts for social icons, buttons, and more. Another popular design is a grid usually they use a container that’s a fluid grid. Designing to a grid usually means that we also want to achieve pixel perfection. Designing a wire frame is helpful for knowing how to have the layout of the project set up for you. Illustrator also plays well with raster, you mostly will need to have a raster image on your site, Illustator may not be the best for editing raster images but its helpful in taking place of a PSD file. Symbols offer a great way to reuse artwork and maintain consistency. Artwork saved as a symbol can be used any number of times in your document.

http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2342451

Reflection 10/26/18

This week we took a break on working on the chapters and instead we are working on a project! The project is called the smart phone project. We work on making app design and development. This project will be about us making apps for our I phone. In total you need to have sixteen different apps. Four have to be about recreating apps that already were know for the main apps like phone, mail, photos and internet. Then four about social media I picked Instagram, youtube, snapchat and Dunkin’. Another four was for me music and games, I did pandora with a panda, I tunes with a CD, Cooking fever with french fries and the flyers with a player. The last four I added were the ones that we got to make up for our project. The ones I made on for my project were Halley’s Comet which made a pretty shinning star cover, Group chat which was a diagram of people linking up, then I did Drones “R” Us and put a drone for the app and my last one I put a movie symbol that have names Haley’s Movies because I couldn’t think of a better name. Overall, this project was nice to do but it was actually really stressful because we only had three websites to work off of and I kept running out of free downloads.

6 Mistakes Designers Make and How to Avoid Them

This article was about sic different designers that make mistakes and they tell you how you could avoid them yourself. You always got to remember your target audience. Some people forget who they need to impress and then they turn it to how they would like it to look and with that the auditors is not impressed by the work. Its not bad to know all the content because pretending makes you look a little too confident that may annoy your buyers. You can’t forget to go home, when it is time to leave you need to walk away so you can end the day and get more ideas the next day. Always one of the biggest things is that you need to make sure that you are always checking everything because there is always a chance for a mistake or error. Another thing, is that you need to make sure you are not wasting your time. The company needs to be treating you the way you deserve to be treated and respectful people because if not then you are wasting time. Make sure that no matter what you never lie about anything at your job because you will get caught in the long run and you need be in deep trouble.

 

https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/6-mistakes-designers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them

Reflection 10/19/18

This week was a exciting week for me! First of all it was one of the most important weeks on the whole year because it was my birthday! Sadly, i had to do classwork on my birthday but it wasn’t hard so it was a good class day. For class i had to finish up chapter fives exercise that was we had sea animals and we had to put them all over the screen but it different ways. The requirements were all our objects which were the sea animals. We had to have at least one Shear, two reflecting, two rotates and at least two distorted all in one project. Then on Tuesday i worked on chapter six that was all about lines and connecting the dots. For chapter 7 I learned about the hues and all different color swatches. Thursday I worked on Chapter 8 which is all about adding types like different text and how to wrap,outline and style the text. On Friday I worked on chapter 9 which is all about organizing your artwork and having all your layers named and correct so nothing is messed up and its all pretty and organized. Only Chapters 6 to 8 are due this week so for next week I will have a head start.