-Start of the making of

Welcome on my blog! This is the place where I write my progress about my graduation project in the last year for my education: Multimedia Design. I'm making this blog, so I can see for myself how my progress is going and for other people who are interested.

I choose for Authoring because that’s the closest direction to design which I'd love to do for my graduation project and because I’d like to learn about programming more. I’m going to make a website about the artist Pink and these are my intentions and reasons why and how I planned to make it:

My goal:
Pinkspage is the site about Pink. I’m a big fan from her for years, a couple of months ago her official site has totally changed and not in a positive way. So my goal is to make a site what should look and work better then this one. You can take a look at the site here: http://www.pinkspage.com/

My main ideas:
The site I want to make must become more personal, it should reflect the "Pink” feeling more, stand out the power of her voice and her personality, there should be much more information about her, the news must be up-to-date, the calendar up-to-date with her shows and maybe links to get tickets for them. If it’s possible a small shop for selling her albums and singles.

Target group:
Someone who is not a fan must be able to find the information of her concerning her music, the latest news, pictures, videos and they must be able to see where she is. For fans this all is important as well but I want to make a special category “Q&A” for them to get a more personal feeling.

The start:
To get people’s attention I start with a fast powerful intro. A neat welcome is always good to make people curious as well. The site must look attractive by the graphics I’ll make. Interactivity in the site is important so I think I’m going to make a banner in Flash that or changes in each different section or that it’ll make it moving a bit to keep the site a bit alive. Further on I don’t know how I will develop the site regarding the coding process, if it’s possible I want to load the texts and pictures externally. Furthermore the site must look simple and client-friendly, no nonsense, only information what really should matter!

Because my education is all about multimedia the following information media should come in the site:
- text
- sound/music player
- graphics
- pictures
- videos
- animations (fluent transitions or that the banner moves a bit)
- a bit 3D in the banner

Site developing:
- interface
- flowchart
- intro
- building the site step by step

Programs which I want to use:
- Flash
- Dreamweaver
- After Effects
- 3ds Max a little bit for the banner
- Photoshop
- Illustrator