Baby and Kids Expo Website Project
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Baby and Kids Expo Homepage- The website for the East Coast Baby and Kids expo was the first website I was ever tasked with creating. Prior to this project my sole experience with web development was from the infrastructure side of the picture. This, therefore, become my initial foray into to the world of website design and creation. Fortunately, I had had previous experience as a graphic designer, working on a variety of advertising and corporate design projects. So I was already familiar with what would become some of my mainstay tools (i.e. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator etc.)
Exhibitor's page - The client for this project was seeking someone to create a fun and expressive site that would closely align with the printed brochures that were being created to promote an up and coming trade show that they were producing. For this project I relied heavily on Macromedia’s Dreamweaver application to build out the individual pages for the site. Being my first stab at writing HTML I went out and garnered a library of references and hit the web for any and all resources that I could avail myself of. At this time I was still too timid to stray from what was still the prevailing wisdom regarding page layout and built the site using the laborious table layout method. I experienced firsthand one of the greatest shortfalls of this older approach to creating pages when, shortly after producing the initial set of pages for the site, I was informed that the client, after finally receiving the first set of proofs for the print materials, desired to completely redesign the look and feel of the site in an effort to more closely align with their brochures. Having not made and amendment provisions in my non-existent contract (remember this was my first independent project of this nature) I felt obliged to rework everything that I had thus far created. Ouch. Needless to say, once this project was completed I plunged quite enthusiastically into the world of CSS based design. Although the site clearly has its quirks and errors (I have intentionally chosen not to revise this version) it will always have a place in my heart. It was after all my “first” time.
