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The Camera Diagram Menu is an idea that has long been in the works as I wanted to create a way for all the pages on the entire site to successfully link together so people wouldnt get lost. I also had my eye on an image of a camera diagram that microsoft had in encarta. So I did some research on other camera diagrams, and drew many versions of the camera as the menu (the lens was the hardest part) and labeled each mechanism with the pages on the site instead of the actual camera parts.

The About Section utilizes a horizontal layout, which is something I’ve been wanting to play with for a while (my entrepreneur class that I took this semester helped with the content).

The Portolio is my absolute favorite part of the site and took forever to do because, as was appropriate for the new design, I had to hand-make each and every thumbnail, sample different backgrounds and determine the readability of the text, type in each image name and definition, as well as spend a lot of time on dictionary.com looking up definitions of the categories that I felt best described the work I wanted to include. That being said, I did NOT design the flash gallery (simpleviewer) since I know next to nothing about flash! The background images in the portfolio are almost all images from crappy point and shoot cameras, once again tying into the “back to basics” idea, as well as my personal belief that the camera and gear doesn’t make the photographer.

And on the Blog I included the menu at the bottom — floating it did NOT work as well as it did on the other pages, and ultimately it distracted too much from the other content — as well as a few other basic tweaks here and there.

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