-CMS

A Content Management System(CMS) is an online system that manages the content of a website. Content such as: texts, pictures, audio and computer files can be uploaded, viewed, controlled, organized and eventually published on a website.

Well about a whole week I was busy following a 183 paged tutorial about a CMS, Joomla to be exactly. First I had to install PHP on my website otherwise I can't view or install the files needed for a CMS then I installed MySql which is a DataBaseManagementSystem for setting up a DataBase on my site which is also needed for a CMS. A Database is a structured collection of data that easily can be viewed, saved, changed or deleted.

Anyways, after installing all this I started to slowly install and then learn and test things with the actual CMS. After following the tutorial for setting up a CMS and what you can do with it I already tested the standard content in a standard template.

The next step was to make a template for the website with special bits of codes for Joomla to recognize in PHP, which I also hardly had learned. In the end this all went good but I had one problem because most parts of my sites are flash parts that calls for XML files to show the content and I can't change the XML files in the CMS, I asked Frank for help with this and he knew a PHP script which can solve this and how it could be solved.

In the meantime I can slowly go further building up the actual site.

-Website Status

Last week I started with slowly putting things together for the website, because I have all kinds of media that has to be in the site, this isn’t going to be an easy job.

The banner is made as a video and the menu has to overlap this video, under these two things you'll have to see the banner as a picture while the video loads, this usual takes about a small second so I choose to not make a preloader but I used a small picture instead.

You can see the website the way it is now at:
http://www.pinkssite.com/test.html.

-Last 1,5 week

Just a message to let you all know what I did last 1,5 week.
I worked the first three days of my “Autumn vacation” and took the last two days off to celebrate my mum’s birthday which ended up staying in the hospital with my granny whole day because things got really bad with her. The doctors found out that there were a lot of things wrong with her and she passed away the next day on Friday 19 October 2007, RIP.

We had to arrange a lot of things for the cremation and I wanted to make the invitation cards and an advertisement in the local newspaper "Tubantia". She loved to puzzle that’s why there are squares in the heart.
This is the invitation card:
This is the advertisement in the newspaper from last Friday:I was stuck on my project with putting things together and I totally wasn't focused on it anyways but I want to start again tomorrow to actually build the site, if my teacher is there to help me.

-Banner logo

Finally, my banner is done and it came out even more gorgeous than I thought it would be.

I wanted to make the logo in 3D which I did and let pink colored light shine behind it. I made the banner "alive" in After Effects with help from a few plug-ins. I tested the plug-ins a lot and didn’t want to make the banner too busy.

-3D logo

Here is the last render of my 3D logo.

It’s the logo of Pink, I firstly had to make a vector drawing from the logo in Illustrator before I could make it in 3D. It was a bit tricky with putting the lights right but I’m satisfied with the end result, mostly because I’m not good at 3D.