Last week I worked on building a site for Fountain Inn's Community Egg Drop. I used Adobe Dreamweaver for the first time, and had a template I found to work from. From there I changed many things- but it was fun because it really stretched who I was as a designer. I don't consider myself a 'graphic designer' by any means. I consider myself someone who if needed to can put together something that will suffice, but that there could always be better.
Above is a screenshot of the home page. Once I got the hang of Dreamweaver, it was alot of fun to design! The site features a picture gallery, tables, text, and custom links that I had to design and organize.
I'm still not great with FTP uploading. It took my a while to actually figure out what files and in what order I needed to upload the files so the file paths would remain the same. I really wish that whoever hosted the site would have an option where you could just upload each file. For example: there would be a upload section where you could upload pages, a place to upload CSS, images. I know that FTP programs like Filezilla do that with relative ease, but it first takes you understanding what folders need to be there. But anyway- I got it done, and it was actually fun. All in all, it took me about 3 days of working around a few hours a day, and then tinkering with it every now and then.
One glitch on the site that I have found is that if you go to the About, or Contact page, the header is blank, but once you refresh the page, the text comes up.
| Before you click refresh |
| After refresh |







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