Grace and I are making a doggy page...

For our multimedia authoring class, we were asked to make a website. We chose a website about dogs, as unfortunately my dog passes away recently. We thought about what type of background we wold be able to make ourselves, and decided to go with the design od dalmation spots. We wanted to use paw prints as the buttons on our navigation pane, after Grace had seen it on another website.

We tried it, but it didn't work because the writing didn't fit properly over the paw print. I looked in the custom shapes tool, and was lucky enough to find a bone shape. This was perfrect for our buttons. We sized them to fit the largest amount of text, and then copied the shape accordingly.
We were asked to use a gif animation, so we decided that a dog in the top corner with a wagging tail would be appropriate and not beyond our capibilities.

We looked up a few different webpages to see what was out there. And found a page that had a very similar set-up to what we were planning. It had bones for its buttons, but they weren't as fancy as ours, as we were adding effects to ours. The page was plain white, and was quite frankly boring. There was a lot of information to pile through, and it woouldn't have kept my attention for long, had I been looking for information on dogs. The website was "irishdogs.ie".
It did have a nice image on the top of the page however, of loads of dogs looking up.

This gave me the idea for our zoomify aspect of our page. I want to make a collage of loads of dogs, that people can zoom in on to have a better look. I also want to have some type of incentive in place to make people want to have a closer look. Not sure what yet though....