Jorgine Agasa - Final

a. Who is your target audience? Please respond to the required questions found in the
Design & Planning Section.
My target audience is anybody who is looking for a freelance illustrator for their projects I think. I want to be able to showcase work to a large variety of people so despite the urges, the garish colors were kept to a minimum.

The site should help the user focus on the art. So aside from some lime green peppered throughout the site, it's a pretty basic grey and white color scheme.

The color scheme:
grey: #303030
lime green: #40e749
white: #ffffff

b. Discuss your SEO planning and integration. Please discuss how you integrated the
requirements stated under the SEO Section.
Like everyone else, used alt and meta tagging with a few links here and there.

c. Discuss your Testing experience. Please include Accessibility, Browser, and Usability
testing.
Patty, I think you had some issues about why there was a link to the homepage on the header despite it looking the same as the illustration page, but I believe it is kind of good to at least have the original index in there somewhere. The roomie and her sister tried it out and they didn't seem to have any problems finding anything, or at least didn't really mention any. They said a title would help out somewhere so I have to think of something for those.

d. Describe your validating experience. What troubleshooting did you experience?
Aaa this was a nightmare! The site didn't even register on the school computers and just the accumulation of minuscule problems made it into one giant headache. The header wasn't the right proportion, parts of the images weren't bleeding over, the links wouldn't overlay, the buttons would still register even though they weren't part of the coding, the list goes on. Eventually everybody helped out and Patty was gracious enough to let me keep the links as text instead of using image buttons if I changed them enough.

Speaking of which, the CSS is not completely validated since text shadows are part of CSS 3 and the youtube embedding is making the validation freak out, as it normally does, but it is functional. Other than that everything else should be fine...? At least it is on this computer.

e. How did the images you use contribute to your website’s purpose? Did your CSS style add to the “siteness” of your website?
This site was all about the images. This is basically a portfolio website to help showcase illustrations. Basically every single image has a class or ID selector on it.

f. What style choices did you make to improve the readability of your table?
The table is basically a sidebar full of thumbnails, that acts as a secondary navigation for the site. They're large enough to display the some of the illustration that each box is linking to but not so large they'll take up the rest of the screen.

g. How did the media you created contribute to the purpose of your website? What plugins does the end user need to display-play?
Not much other than to exhibit exuberance of getting emails, particularly regarding commission work. Also that I really like that video, it cracks me up every time. Originally was gonna use an animation reel but I haven't done anything worth showing or allowed to show in many, many, many years. Yikes!

h. Add a link to your web site within your blog posting

Jo's Illustration Site