Welcome to my 4th. Year Final Year Project
The changing face of Limerick City will provide a valuable source of information in an interactive way to the users interested in finding out about the development of Limerick City over the past number of years.
This project really motivates me as it combines my architectural experience and photography passion together to create a web site housing both aspects.
I love to take photographs of buildings and will be able to use some of those images in this project to help show off my native city to its best. I will be able to give an architectural feel to the web site by using an architectural style layout on the web page, which I hope will attract architectural inclined individuals.
- Researched on line - what is available about Limerick
http://www.limerickcitydb.ie/CDBInfo/Main/Main.aspx
http://limerick.ie/OurServices/Housing/HousingPublications/FitzgeraldReport/
http://www.limerickpride.com/
Downloaded the following PDF's from the above sites:
a. The John Fitzgerald Report, which “addresses issues of Social Exclusion in Moyross and other disadvantaged areas of Limerick City.”
b. The Limerick Pride PDF, which “is dedicated to promoting the very many positive aspects of Limerick City and County.”
c. "Limerick, the profile of a changing city"
- Progress review meeting with Pat Green & Seamus OCiardaiun and discussed the two alternative below:
- Reason behind color, Architects drawing = blue print = hence liked the idea of blue.
Homepage design size set to 750 x 450 x 72ppi to fit a 15” monitor.
a. Rulers
b. Details
c. Use transparent architectural drawing
Using a,b,c helps to create the architectural style needed for this web site.
Layout 2 – grey
This layout appeals to me also as I created buttons using architectural details and photos of Limerick as buttons with an architectural feel.
Looked at free fonts on web, as I liked the font used on Hut Sachs Studio web site – no luck yet finding a suitable one yet.
- Weekly meeting with my supervisor Mike OConnell and discussed my concerns with the technical aspects involved.
- Given project approval
- Got article from the Sunday Times Paper on John Fitzgerald who wrote the report on the regeneration of deprived areas in the city.
- Project review meeting with Patricia Green - advice given on storyboards & navigation etc.
To Do List for project following discussion with PG:
1. To give the site an architectural look – “Blue Print”
Find architectural drawings to use as background for web home page
Source architectural details that can be used on these pages as buttons OR Have a little drawing at bottom of page of a building
2. Make the name of the buttons mean what they say they are going to display – use more appropriate names.
3. Home page at present is incorrect – needs more work and buttons to be positioned differently.
4. Don’t need acknowledgement page – This can go in report
5. Look at color and text that appeals to me
6. Buttons:
Instead of presentation – Say Audio & Video
Comments – Have your say
Partners – People making changes happen
Case Studies – New buildings in limerick replacing old!! Possibly
Past Present Future
Vision / News- The new vision / buildings / regeneration for Limerick.
- Architectural web sites that appeal to me - http://gruzensamton.com and http://hutsachs.com/
- First meeting with our supervisor Mike O'Connell - discussed the tasks required for next weeks appointment.
- Took some photos in Southill & Moyross.
- Did draft layouts in Photoshop
- Regarding using photos of old Limerick - spoke to a friend who has taken photos of Limerick over the years and he will supply me with some images.
- Full Project Proposal handed in
- Visit to Limerick City library in search of information on the history of Limerick.
- Visit to LIT library & obtained relevant books.
- Looking on Web for relevant web sites
- Working on story boards and navigation in pencil format.
