2W25 More Reading and testing

PGPD

I had to finish reading my books and takes notes for my PGPD paper so I can finish it as soon as possible, so I can start with my presentation and my essay.

My Project

I had to make some more testing with the quality and the size of my images that I am going to use in my final project. I think I have reached to a descent point where quality and size are ‘affordable’ to my final project. See below one of the images I am going to use as it comes to size in kb and the quality. So the size of the image (that will show in my storyboard) is 36.5KB and dimensions 266×140. I end up with these calculations after some testing for my final site with dimension 800×640. See below some testing.

Here u can see how I end up with dimensions

Here  is the working file in jpg form (size 599kb and dimensions 720×576)

…and here is the final image I am going to use for the storyboard (size 36.5kb and dimensions 266×140)

2W24 Web Structure

Interactive Site

I have lay down the structure of my web based final project. I am going to use swish for it (www.swishzone.com) a flash based software. My main concern is how I am going to make it possible for someone to drag one image from the small ones into the box above and fit in to the right proportion and size. Below you can see the layout and the structure of my site.

    

2W23 Greece – Inspiration

Trip to Greece

This week I spent my time shooting some photos to use them as a starting point for my backgrounds. I had the chance to take 2 days off my work so I plan a trip to Greece just for shooting some photos. Greece is a very inspiring place for me and it seems in one way or another I have influence my son and he is very attractive to ‘ancient’ stories and myths.

The Backgrounds

After some testing and thinking I end up not to use any movies within my final project since it is impossible to be view online by anyone. The amount of images that I want use is already huge by not having motion. So let’s say I end up with 50 images of around 100-120kb each I will end up with around 5meg just for images. That is a lot already with not even count the size of interactive site. I need to come up with a better compression for the images if I want to have that amount of images in my project.