This was the previous style for Charmed Designs, the third such design at the time (making this current one the fourth). The concept was to concentrate on the portfolio concept of the site, and present it as if it were a real ringbound portfolio.
One of the things I love doing is expressing my enthusiasm for video games using my design abilities. Often, these result in wallpapers using official art and screenshots for the games in question. This is a wallpaper I made shortly after E3 2009, where the first new Golden Sun title for about a decade was announced.
The idea was to carry across the same idea that the rest of the game art generally does - that you have two sides of the same person, or in this case, 360 controller, that can be either evil or good, depending on how you play the game.
The main effort came in trying to make the background look as if it fitted with SFIV’s style. At first I wondered if I could try and make it actually look like a game location – but the game has so much style and filters applied to it, it’s pretty hard to mimic the look with an actual photo. Instead, I focused on making it look ‘drawn’ and inked – in the same sort of idea as the characters.
With my project, I have the ideal aim of people using this website as a home page for their browser that allows them easy access to the sites and services they visit daily as well as a way to connect with their friends as a hub of their online activity.
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After essentially a solid weekend trying to get Ruby on Rails to work on Windows so I can actually learn it, finally I gave up trying and have loaded it all up on Ubuntu instead.
So, I’ve decided that I should look into the Ruby on Rails framework (at last) for my 3rd year Uni project to try and streamline some of the work that needs done for it.
If you would be kind enough to spare a minute to fill in this small questionnaire, it would be very much appreciated. This will aid me in one of my University modules as well as providing me with vital information about how this website is used so that I can improve it. Thank you.
For those of you who may be interested, this is just a quick run down of what lies behind the scenes of this web site and what software I’ve used to make it. Just for the hell of it:
Want to know what makes this website tick? What was used to make it?