Colle Mcvoy are an American company that have an extremely impressive portfolio of work. I came across them when i found their Snowdin website on theFWA. However it turns out i have seen their work before without knowing when I visited the Yearbook website. After researching more of their work I think i might add it to my list for sites to keep an eye on. The majority of their work is highly interactive and they definitely have their finger on the pulse.
Snowdin
This is a great site created by. It features 3D cinematic technology that requires 3D glasses. You can request these and get sent to your house; although they are not essential they will improve your enjoyment. It has numerous games and things to download and the navigation has been planned in such a way that it keeps you interested. The only negative a would say it has is that you can't turn off the irritating sleigh bells!
Yahoo
"The Yahoo! Messenger Emoticons want to spread some holiday cheer. Create a personalized carol, then send them off to the digital doorsteps of your friends and loved ones."
This is one i did myself!
YearBook Yourself
Colle Mcvoy
Recipe page
After saying i didn't like my logo with the Jazz image behind I've decided to go with it. Viewing the white background on a different screen with fresh eyes I don't know what i was thinking!!
Anyway, i have developed some of the pages and am now putting them into html. Its going well!
After reading the 'Art & Science of CSS', allowing for people that have images and css turned off so they can still access and use the site. I am doing this by covering up text with the images with 'span' tags. This is giving me a grasp of css and although taking a bit of time is extremely worth while. Check it out (only at uni)
I’ve been thinking for a while that I’d like to change my design and style for my site, to give it more individual character. The illustrative design and pastel colours suit the content but for me, it s a very obvious style to go for. Jacqueline Wilson’s books are great for teenage girls, but I want to
appeal to a wider audience.
I had a bit of a brain storming session and touched on a scrapbook style using post-it notes and Polaroid photos, notice board pins and handwriting with hand drawn illustrations. Inspiration coming mainly from Jamie Oliver’s cooking programme. But again, it’s not
exactly original! Then I got thinking about trying to use photography again because I didn’t actually do anything with those sweet images I took. I started fiddling around with these stencil type logos in Photoshop. I like the idea and the second one 
is my favourite, but for some reason they just don’t grab me. When creating them though I just happened to hide the hundreds and thousands layer and the resulting image is image 6. I really 
like this. It is simple but has its own style. I want to develop it a bit more by exploring different textures and also making it out of paper instead of it being completely computer generated.
If I pursue this idea, (which I think I should considering the time scale!) the rest of the site will be very minimalist with one key image on each page and quite a lot of white space. I might explore incorporating post-it notes, torn edges etc.