Public Mission Statement

It is the purpose of this redesign (for quinnipiac branches) to provide greater ease of use to end users, provide clear visual idenity, and allow the ability to alter content through use of CSS/PHP scripting, rounded rectangular guiding shapes, and school colors (yellow and blue), while allowing the client to provide greater connectivity to the catholic community on campus.

Mission Statement

It is the purpose of My Personal Website™ to open up economic possibilities for myself through professional promotion, using available internet technology and personally created media to reach the largest possible professional audience with whom to engage in dialouge and showcase my professional works and skills, in a cost effective, fun, and non-offensive manner.

2 new comps

QU Branches 1
QU Branches 2

5 points on chapter 1

Points made in “Site Seeing”
1. Know your intended message, and focus on it. There are many people in the world with many different ways of thinking about the same thing (god for example, like in our comps due today), and unintended ideas, some of which are possibly offensive, may arise from not thinking through an intended message properly.
2. Know your client. I know this better than most, as while at the company I’ve been working for, we have had “good clients” and “bad clients”. Good clients have a general idea of what they want, and are willing to communicate with you and negotiate about what can and can’t be done, whereas bad clients fight amongst themselves and end up rejecting everything you offer, even though some of the various elements may agree from time to time, all of them will never fully agree on anything. Avoid bad clients, no matter how desperate you are for business. Getting to know your client, and which type they are, can be crucial to your sanity, reputation, and your bottom line.
3. Collect as much important information as possible! If you miss something, you might screw everything up, and end up with something that you’ll be embarrassed to show the client. Like say, if you forget their logo, or forget that the purpose of the site is to sell things, and forget to provide any links to a store, and focus more on the technical side of things, you’ll have to go back and do everything all over again.
4. Know the audience. Do not place possibly offensive material on a site meant for the eyes of children. You will pay dearly for it! Also, how knowledgeable is your intended audience about the target product/service? In many cases people will browse the net to find out more, or for professional services, may know quite a bit already. Do not assume however, and make sure that additional information is available, even if it’s not on your site. Consumers want pictures of the products they are buying, and will often assume that what they see is what they are going to get. I bet Ikea has this problem all the time.
5. Mission statements are a useful tool in everyday life. You write them without even knowing in many situations, like a grocery list or appointment book. You intend to A. Pick up those products or B. Make sure you are at a certain place at a certain time. Make sure everyone at your firm is on the same page about what the message should be, or you’ll end up with a varied and wide ranging array of messages which may contradict and or vary from one another.

Comps for 9/14/06 Leaf and Flame

Leaf Motif

Flaming Pentacle

Matt Hazelton Online

Matt Hazelton Online

This links to the online page

Baseboard - Matt Hazelton's Site

Thank you Matt for the inspiration.

5 point fonts

1. The web is a communication medium. Like canvas or marble or electromagnetic modulation.
2. Communicating via the web can be tough, but doesnt need to be so. Esspecially if you buy this book and follow its advice.
3. Web experts are hung up on advancing technology, not good visual design practices, and should focus more on the visual nature of the web.
4. has a number of design "considerations" which he does and does not want you to follow. These "considerations" are in three areas, technical (how's your code?) structural (did you organize it?) and visual (does it attract and direct your key demographic?).
5. web design is deep stuff meant to stir the emotions and/or create a cult like following.

Wednesday Evening Post

I found out today that the company I am interning at is going under. Closing their doors forever. Kicking La Bucket. Fin. This sucks royal jelly. And that's terrible.