A Lupus Story

Alright, so I was told to document my progress with this. Although I really don't have one, so I will basically explain what happened with this.

When I first started this website, I intended to be working with someone on it, and then due to a change of plans, and being unable to meet up with them, I had to do it on my own, and find other people to help me with information.

What I did first was think of the design. First, that I have to make it usable, and readable. The text is increasable, the logo is visible, you know where you are. I am using the symbol of lupus: the blue butterfly. There are drop-down links for the menu, and the titles of the pages are the same. I also opted for a clean and calm look (blue being the best choice).

Then came the CSS-ing. A pain as always, to get right in both firefox and IE. But it's all worth it in the end.

Now with the content, I was a bit discouraged, since I didn't have my "stories" to post. But I kept going anyway, and got my technical details done. I asked pretty much everyone I knew if they knew someone who had Lupus, I posted in message boards, I did what I could. Finally I did get one story, and I guess that's a start! But I wish I knew how to make people more comfortable with sending me information. Thats one thing that I should have thought about more.

I showed my website to the one person who submitted their story, and their relative who is attained by Lupus was in tears. I think I did my job pretty well, and hopefully everyone will be moved, and made aware by it.

Bouncing around

I was with two guys this week, with the first we were just looking at music on a website (which I didn't even know had songs to listen to!), and discussed hip hop and R&B stuff. We didn't really do any projects. With the second, he was looking at pictures for a tattoo, of the grim reaper? Many of the kids don't use their own creativity to design their tattoos, it's too bad. But I guess they are still getting used to self expression and art and all that.

Not much for today

We were working on our personal projects since not too many kids were there.

November 13th

Missed this one

For November 6th

I was sitting with the two girls who go there all the time. One of them was doing a montage in photoshop, with images from their trip somewhere. And the other was looking at images of anarchy sayings, not sure what it was for though. It's fun working with them, and one of them already knows photoshop pretty well, so more of a chance to get creative!