Webs By Kenlyn – The Blog!

First of all, thank you everyone for reading and offering help, suggestions and great ideas.  It’s been a great ride!  Good luck to you all in the future!!

Here are the Internship projects I worked on for my hours for this Internship class at MPTC:

Dan Weber – Shorewest Realty – Dan has had his website for a few months now, and has made a few changes on his own.

Riveredge Nature Center – Keep in mind that I did not create the overall layout, but I am responsible for keeping the navigation in line, and all of the content in the main column and the right column, as well as custom graphics and all new pages.  This site is always changing!

The Youth and Family Project, Inc. – The website was created by me completely to look a lot like the current brochures and marketing of this non-profit organization, including colors, shapes and fonts.  This site is not finished, yet, and not all content has been given to me by the client.

I’m having problems with the HTML/CSS on the Youth and Family website.  Most of it looks great, but at the bottom of the page, the content div overlaps it’s parent container and I can’t find a way to make the parent one larger for ALL pages and still look great in both IE and Firefox.

http://www.websbykenlyn.com/youthandfamily/

If you look at the source code, I tried to put in a ’spacer’ div that would be a different size for each page (by the by, the top two pages only work at the moment, as that’s all the content I have right now from the client), but it still overlapped in IE and not in Firefox.  When I made the spacer taller, it looked silly in Firefox, but correct in IE, however this may be the only way it works.

Giving the ‘entire’ div a height in pixels makes the ‘content’ div overlap the bottom with a white box for some odd reason.  Giving both the ‘entire’ and the ‘content’ real heights in pixels does the same thing.  I’m a bit fed up with this and I am quitting for the night in hopes that another idea will come to me sometime while I’m not thinking about it.  XD

Any suggestions out there?

So I have finished most of the HTML needed for the Youth and Family Project website and uploaded it for the client to see. She has given me the content for only the first two pages, so those are the only two pages that work at the moment.

Take a gander, if you’d like:
http://www.websbykenlyn.com/youthandfamily

A coworker wanted my phone number and email address for a friend of hers looking to get his website remade. This fellow is into racing, I hear, and also is starting his own auto mechanic shop, so he may want one site with both on it, or perhaps two separate sites.

Hopefully he’ll get a hold of me very soon! I’ll leave it up to him, at first, to get in contact, just in case he’s not really wanting to get a new website at the moment.

The agreement and Scope Document were approved for my Youth and Family Project website, and the client has chosen the first template, the blue one without yellow, because it’s so much like the brochure she gave me. She said she loved it very much! I’m going to get started on the HTML for it right now, in fact!

This month has been a rollercoaster for me.  First I was excited to chat with Linda from Gingerbread House, and then that came crashing down.  Next, I was psyched to meet with Beryl from The Yout and FAmily Project, but all of this week she was gone on vacation so I didn’t check my email to see if she got back to me.  She emailed me while on vacation, so now I have some work to do.  These mistakes will be my downfall, I know this.

Anyway, the meeting with Beryl went great, and I’ve worked a bit on the game site, but overall there is no new news from this week.  Thanks for checking in!

So last week, the meeting with Linda from the Gingerbread House fell through and there was no meeting held. I called her again yesterday to set up another meeting, but she did not answer her phone. Apparently, she told her boss about me and her boss, Beryl, called instead!

So instead of making just a few pages for Gingerbread House, I’m making a redesign site for its parent organization! I’m psyched! I’ve already done a lot to get ready for making this site for The Youth and Family Project, and I can’t wait to get started on doing more!  I have finished the Creative Brief, written up most of the Agreement, and also started the Scope Document.

Since Beryl is going on vacation next week for Thanksgiving, I have also already made two templates for her to look over.  She wanted the site to echo what the brochures look like, so the blue colors and the rounded shapes are from that.  If you like, you can see them here:

http://www.websbykenlyn.com/bluebrochure-site.jpg – this one is most like the brochure.

http://www.websbykenlyn.com/bluewithyellow-site.jpg – this one is perhaps a bit more modern, but we’ll see what she likes about both of them!

I have also worked more on the game site, and I think I can show you guys the initial pictures of it.  Go to this site and see it for yourself. Obviously, this version has no main content, but I’ve been working on the HTML version, which does have some content already written for it.

For some reason I’m finding it hard to remember to update this on every Friday. I keep checking my WebsByKenlyn email folders and wondering why I’m not getting any homework emails, completely forgetting the new school email they made us get. Maybe I’m just too old for change!!

My meeting with Linda White of Gingerbread House is coming up soon. I can’t wait to see what it is they would like in their website and create something for them. I remember someone in the class posting a link about Creating Websites for Non-Profits and had to go back and read it again, just to keep myself straight. Thanks to whomever posted that!

I’ve been working more on the website I’m creating for the game I’m involved in, but I don’t feel it’s ready to be shown off, just yet. Maybe next week!

I hadn’t updated this past Friday because there was not much to say! My contact at the Gingerbread House hadn’t gotten back to me at all, and I was waiting until this Tuesday to talk to my former client’s wife about it before I called again. She told me she’d call Linda from Gingerbread House and tell her to give me a call back. XD

So I called Linda again today, and we spoke for a few minutes, then set up a meeting for next week! Wish me luck!

On the design front, I sat down at the computer and worked out an idea I had for a website layout rolling around in my head. I’m not sure I’ll use it for anything, but it’s there all the same. Got to work on some placement skills in photoshop, and some layout problems associated with using different pictures as backgrounds. I think it was a good exercise for me!

I’ll make my post today, seeing as I’ll be out of town tomorrow.

I had left a voice mail for a Linda White with the Youth And Family Project of Washington County about making them a website for their Christmas program called Gingerbread House. I hear they have no website at all and are looking for someone on the down low to make one for them. The lady who told me about it is actually a past client’s wife! Goes to show you shouldn’t loose contact with old clients. By the by, I asked Dan how his website is going, and he said it’s great!

It’s good to know I can make something that lasts and that helps other people with their lives! <3

I have started work on the website for the client that Tammy denied, and I think it’s looking very nice! I’ll be putting it up as soon as I have a bit more done with it, and I’ll be sure to put up a link here. Here’s to hoping it looks as good online!