This
is a creative portfolio web site that I designed and manage for a friend who
is a professional writer and journalist. The site was
originally designed for a screenplay that she wrote. The graphics on the site were created to complement the theme of the screenplay, with images of roses set
against filmstrips, which serve as icons for each of the navigation
sections. It uses a theatrical red and black color scheme, and a
font that resembles script handwriting — as if the author's
own pen were used. The front page was made to resemble a movie
poster, with a single red rose, the author's name at the top, and
the navigation of the site below, which is highlighted with a red
script on a white background and outlined with a dotted border to give the feeling of a theater buildborad with lights. The screenplay section of the site,
which is password-protected, also has a similar cover page, with
a slightly different navigation and some additional graphics.
Technologies
used: The site was originally created with hand-coded
HTML pages, and used Adobe Photoshop/Image-Ready sliced imagery. It also
includes a JavaScript mousetrail of rose petals on some of the main
pages. The site is now maintained and updated in Dreamweaver with a section devoted to the author’s publications in journals, newspapers and news websites, online.
