Josh Burton's ecomm blog

Overview Before CARP & CSS styles. During this project, we were given a webpage with titles, a picture, links, and some other minor details. The page was very dull, and disorganized, so we had to redesign the page using CSS styles and CARP. All we had was the starting template, with about 11 separate tags included that were linked to certain parts of the page. These were where the only changes to our page took place. Here we changed the color of our background and text, as well as choosing different fonts, and changing the alignment. All of these changes may look very complex, and completely different from the original design, but they both have the same code, with only minor differences that help to make the page look a lot better. Contrast During this project we had to change the colors, and style of certain things in order to add contrast to our page. We were able to create contrast first by changing the colors of our background and fonts. We made them pretty much opp...

ISTJ My personality type is ISTJ. This means I am introverted, sensing, thinking, and judging. People who are classified as an ISTJ are typically very analytical, reliable, and detail-oriented. They tend to value logical reasoning rather than emotional. They tend to prefer to be alone at times, and keep their thoughts to themselves. These people like to use processes that are proven to work, and also like to rely on their past experiences. Some famous people who share this personality type are George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II, and George H.W. Bush. As a whole, I believe this description of me is almost spot on. I think the quiz is definitely correct when it says I am introverted, and prefer to look at logic when reasoning. I believe I am definitely dependable and detail-oriented, but I think I also have some qualities of perceiving, to go along with judging. For example, I always try to not over schedule things, and I work pretty well under pressure. As a whole, I though t...

  Overview During this project, we were tasked with creating a story which showed someone going from point A to point B. We had to use the 6 shot technique, which helps to show different angles, which each help to develop the story line. We also had to think about the sequencing of our shots, so they would flow nicely, and not confuse the viewer. Also, before we even started filming, we had to create a road map, where we sketched what we would be putting into our video. Once we had thought about all of this, we started the actual filming of the video. Production of the Video Once we started filming, we had to bring our ideas to real life. We had already come up with a general idea of what we wanted to film, but we had to make some small changes of location, and had to change some of the script so our video would be as interesting as possible for the viewer. After we had filmed, we started the editing process. During this, we chose multiple audio clips to fit the differen...

Pre-Production Before the making of this video, we worked together with our partner to brainstorm the different shots and camera angles we wanted for our video. This lead us to making a story board, which pretty much summarized what we would be trying to do with our video. After we had done this, we got our iPads so we could put our idea into actual photographs. These allowed us to better envision what our video would be like when we actually started putting it together. This also helped us receive small critiques on how to frame our videos. After we had prepared all of this, my partner and I decided what we wanted to do individually for the video. We decided that he would film, and I would act, but we would both help frame the shots, as well as editing the video by ourselves. Now we were ready to start the production of the video. Production of the Video Now we had started the video itself, and with it we had to make many decisions and changes as a group. In this way I tho...

Website Portfolio Project Overview After all we have done this year in e9, we were assigned with creating a website on Adobe Dreamweaver to showcase all of our work for the semester. This website we would be creating would have two pages; one that was a main page, and talked about us, and then another page that was completely dedicated to our projects in e-Comm. Both of these pages were also accompanied by a sidebar, footer, links, and headers that we had to edit and change ourself. How We Did It This project on Dreamweaver was able to teach me a lot about the program, along with how to make a layout look pleasing to the eye. We started the project by changing the necessities of a web page, which are headers, a sidebar, and a footer. All of these aspects helped to make the page look much more presentable and professional. After this, we imported a picture of us, and our "Elevator Pitch" into the main page. These would help to serve as an introduction for the people...

House Overview During this project, we were given the task of recreating a real house by using Sketchup. We had done a few minor projects already using this software, so we knew the basics, but we still had to figure out how to do a lot of new techniques. Once we had picked out our house, we began our project. How We Did It Once we had chosen our house that we were going to recreate, we started by making a box with the specific dimensions of our house. We then created our roof, and added other aspects to our houses, such as windows, doors, and porches. Once we had the basic shape of our house done, we began to add textures and colors to our house to make it look how it would in real life. We were also required to find two of our own textures online that we would include in our house. After we had done all of this, we added some finishing touches, and then created the animation for our house. This was basically a visual tour, and showed the different viewpoints of ou...

Ball Bounces Overview For this project, we had to make three different animations which all included a ball bouncing. One had to bounce up and down, one came from the side, and the third one had to have a surprise ending. Beforehand, we were taught how to make a frame animation on Photoshop, and then we were released to make these three animations. How We Did It For this project, we started off by making our background, and our ball. After we had done this, we used the command, option-drag to create multiple copies of our ball. Once we had done this, we moved all of the different balls to a specific area that would make it look like an animation in it's final form. We then started the actual animation, where we started off with our original ball, with all of the others hidden. Then we created a new frame, and hid our original ball, and showed the next copy. We repeated this process until we had gone through all of our frames. There were different things we had ...