As Hunty already knows, while I'm inside college and I'm not doing any lessons I'm working with a small team to manage the college TV station that we set up a few months ago.

When we originally set it up I designed a website for our fellow students to view our programs through, but eventually we decided it was time for a redesign and this is what I have come up with:

http://www.winstanley.ac.uk/winstanleytv/

Your thoughts? Suggestions? Honesty please. I'm always looking to improve

I was impressed before and still am.

At a glance, it looks very swoit.

Whoops... signature bug.

Yeah, oversized flag thingy. o.O

Had a bit more of a snoop around on the site with the uni connection, and it's pretty darn cool. Very good design actually.

I don't have headphones with me so I havn't watched any of the broadcasts yet though.

The only critisism I'd have is that you might want to fill out the footer a bit more. Put a link to contacts etc down there perhaps.

I'd say to throw in a Privacy Statement page link as well down there. I couldn't find a Privacy or Terms and Conditions or anything the like with my little snoop.

Primarily just say what you will and won't do with the emails submitted to the newsletter subscription thing. (ie. you won't sell / give to 3rd party unless required to by law etc.)

A privacy statement is usually required by law, and is generally good practice anywho. Up to you how much detail you go into but basically just need to state the obvious.

But yeah, other than that, smashingly cool site!
Well done.
^_^

Grug wrote:Yeah, oversized flag thingy. o.O

Had a bit more of a snoop around on the site with the uni connection, and it's pretty darn cool. Very good design actually.

I don't have headphones with me so I havn't watched any of the broadcasts yet though.

The only critisism I'd have is that you might want to fill out the footer a bit more. Put a link to contacts etc down there perhaps.

I'd say to throw in a Privacy Statement page link as well down there. I couldn't find a Privacy or Terms and Conditions or anything the like with my little snoop.

Primarily just say what you will and won't do with the emails submitted to the newsletter subscription thing. (ie. you won't sell / give to 3rd party unless required to by law etc.)

A privacy statement is usually required by law, and is generally good practice anywho. Up to you how much detail you go into but basically just need to state the obvious.

But yeah, other than that, smashingly cool site!
Well done.
^_^

Some good ideas in there, thanks I'll put those in.

I really like the visual design and flash components, looks very nice and professional. It's nice and simple yet very effective. :yes:

I just did a subject in simple web dev this semester and our team outputted this site for our assignment: http://proj1.fit.qut.edu.au/ITB007/2006_1/Team052/
(best viewed in IE not FF)

Not completely functional (most of the working function is in the admin section - the browsing tabs for example ~ dynamically managed via admin as are the categories etc) but we got pretty good marks with her.
One of our team members did a fabulous job on the artwork and design of the site, he used a few things from istock photo or something. I was primarily the database guy. Designed / implemented the databases the site runs on.

Over the holidays I'm going to get into building a few more sites, probably mainly a portfolio site, but also for a few projects I'm on.

I've decided I'm going to major in Web Applications and Interactive Design, so I'm starting to love getting into this stuff.

Sorry if I ranted a bit, little excited I guess. I think I've finally found / decided what I want to do with my career / life. ^_^

I'm probably also going to take some electives in e-commerce and / or consulting / management.

Grug wrote: (best viewed in IE not FF)

Crap. Crap crap crappity crap crap crap.

MEGACRAP

Grug wrote:I really like the visual design and flash components, looks very nice and professional. It's nice and simple yet very effective. :yes:

I just did a subject in simple web dev this semester and our team outputted this site for our assignment: http://proj1.fit.qut.edu.au/ITB007/2006_1/Team052/
(best viewed in IE not FF)

Not completely functional (most of the working function is in the admin section - the browsing tabs for example ~ dynamically managed via admin as are the categories etc) but we got pretty good marks with her.
One of our team members did a fabulous job on the artwork and design of the site, he used a few things from istock photo or something. I was primarily the database guy. Designed / implemented the databases the site runs on.

Over the holidays I'm going to get into building a few more sites, probably mainly a portfolio site, but also for a few projects I'm on.

I've decided I'm going to major in Web Applications and Interactive Design, so I'm starting to love getting into this stuff.

Sorry if I ranted a bit, little excited I guess. I think I've finally found / decided what I want to do with my career / life. ^_^

I'm probably also going to take some electives in e-commerce and / or consulting / management.

Management? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There there.... ^^

Owch. LoL.

We were building in MS .NET so was little choice, it still runs in FF its just that there are some graphics that don't show up. Otherwise, I think it should more or less work the same.

And yeah, you can add / edit / remove catagories, articles, users, etc. all via a backend admin interface. You don't even have to play with the database manually with it.

I still think it turned out allright.

Super uber necropost mode activated.

My website that I featured at the start of the topic looked like this:
http://apache.winstanley.ac.uk/winstanleytv/news.php

And now that I told the organisers of the project to f*** off, resigned and took my website with me, it now looks like this:
http://www.winstanley.ac.uk/winstanleytv/

Its what happens when you edit my websites without telling me, bypass me by getting a yes-man to do my job and treat my skills and commitment like a free lunch. You get stuck in the sh*t.

Feel free to lock/delete this topic through necroposting and bad language.

Moved to rants

So... 'splain b**ch?

Edit: for the record I like both those sites.