Evil Don Site Composition

Right now we, me as Information Architect with the help of my colleagues, are putting together mock ups of the website. He has a very cool logo (as seen in Jen's posting) that we are trying to utilize. The logo is reminicant of a 50's sign. So we are thinking of extending the sign on the left side and adding extra signs to the poles to create navigation. We don't have anything worth showing yet besides sketches and crappy mock ups but you can get the idea of what we are trying to do from this website full of some neon signs:

http://myneonlights.blogspot.com/2009/04/animated-neon-signs.html

Evil Don Tattoos (because Dawn is a bitch)

So apparently we talked to the owner of Lou's Tattoos (which is Dawn and not Lou) and she was a completely rude cunt rag bitch face dyke whore devil woman. Apparently she was completely offended we wanted to redo her website and that it was updated constantly although it SUCKS ASS! Need I remind you of their papyrus logo and that the site says it was last updated in 2002.....

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So now we are doing (for sure) Evil Don tattoos on central. Very nice guy. Understood that free work is exciting. Also he has less artists so it will actually be easier. He doesn't have a website yet so he is happy to be put on the web for free.

Lou's Tattoos

So we decided on what we are doing:   Lou's Tattoos!!
No offense but it's SO BAD.. they use papyrus!!!!


We did decide on a tattoo shop and it would be similar to our portfolio websites because essentially we would be highlighting the artists work. We have a creative brief started as well as a site map (seen below). We think this site will not give us too much of a headache as well as being super fun to do. Essentially we will be working with other artists so it should be interesting. We shall see!

Final Assignment - The Beginnings

I was thinking along the lines of redesigning my friends dads website. It's a banner website so it would really be a design from scratch. Here is the site: Pinellas Marine Construction


Jen and Chelsea were thinking more along the lines of doing a local tattoo shop. That might be more fun.

Home Page. Done.

new logo!

CRAZEH BACKGROUNDS!!!

So the tiny squiggles you have seen are the calmest and therefore will be the on the portfolio page. The first is the home page, the second 'about me,' and third is contact. I did redesign the logo a bit to compensate for readability and that will be posted soon.

Sprite Power

The buttons are now all fancy sprites that look more childish / 90s-ish / awesome.

myweb.usf.edu

I figured out how to  upload to the USF website via your personal NetID crap. I would just do it for Jen if she wishes seeing as how I have my own webspace although I did add something to mine as a.... "test"


Check it out:
http://cdleyva.myweb.usf.edu/

Redesign

So basically I just redesigned the home page. It's like old paper (or I was told it looks like a big sticky note). I was going for a more suitable look. The hand drawn feel works better than it was before.