Project 1: Animated Banner Ads

Ok. So apparently I'm supposed to keep posting things to this blog regularly as part of my grade for the semester.....I should pay closer attention. Below are some animated GIFs I did for our first assignment creating animated web page banners. One leaderboard, one rectangle and one skyscraper.
I chose to create some make believe banners for the College of DuPage website keeping true to the sites identity. (COD website can be viewed here) Two of them have images in the background as part of the animation. One has text only. In hindsight, they all should probably have images or all just text. Perhaps this will make a good summer project to have two sets...one all text, the other all images...

 

Black & White Photography

For week #1 of this class, we are to create a blog, work on the interface and add a post of anything we wish. I've had a passion for black & white photography for quite sometime mostly in the genre of Street Photography. Prior to moving to the suburbs two years ago, I lived in Chicago and worked downtown. Always having my camera with me, I enjoyed taking candid pictures of random people, places and things that caught my eye in the bustling urban environments of Chicago. Instead of posting my favorite photos to Flickr, I would like to eventually create my own website to showcase them. This class may be a good opportunity to begin playing with that idea and possibly center my class projects around...

Flickr - Aaron Leverenz

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