SRJC Petaluma Lab Project site

SRJC Web Development Program
Final Presentations Fall 1998

URL: http://www.santarosa.edu/petlab/

Client: Petaluma Campus Computer Lab
Web Site Development Team

Designer
Producer
HTML Angela Dowd
seeking work in Web Site Design/Production

Angela Dowd: acdowd@wco.com

Skills: I work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Quark, and PageMaker primarily. I'm experimenting with the new web Painter right now. I have designed three sites besides my own...two of which are still up and one that I am currently redesigning. I am doing only the art and look and feel for this new site. I have designed a pocketguide and a syllabus to go along with a site I designed for Internet Guides Press that offers onine CE courses. I also create promotional printed material to go with web sites. I am strongest in design and illustration...I prefer to use Dreamweaver than write code, but like to be able to tweak it in BBEdit. I can draw in different styles. Realism is my preference, but I have also done cartoon-like art. I did manual technical illustration for years and have a very keen eye for detail.

Courses: I have taken beginning and advanced web page design, the business of web design, a few photoshop courses, computer art and design courses, desktop publishing courses, an online art class,and I am currently taking advanced web graphics.

Project Role: My role was...I did the whole site. My partner went traveling and decided to stay in L.A. in the middle of the project. It was easier to just do it myself rather than have to email him the files and try to pin him down to do the work. It was a different type of project. There were four different departments and they all needed to be separate and not linked. This has to do with the needs of each department, so I had to find a way to make it all hold together, yet keep it so that any department could take their section and move it at any time. I also had to design for users who are unfamiliar with the internet and even with the English language.

What I learned from the project: I now know that I need to be more perceptive about others. Also, I have learned that I am not responsible for other people's choices. If I ever have a similar situation, I will not wait so long to lay the cards out on the table.