- west -

- branding material -

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- site map -

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- moodboard -

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Mood board for my design , mostly in wooden style and classical feel..

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Analysis

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Executive Summary

This project is to redesign the website for The Ship ( A steak restaurant ), the color mode of the enterpage is absolutely different with the mainpage color mode .This is not consistant and will make visitors feel like it has no connection between this 2 pages.There are some moving images at the bottom of the page and the mainpage seem to be incomplete due to the large spaces that is blank at the edges. The content of this page is just using around 45% of whole page. It would be better if the spaces being used increase up to 80%.

Besides , for the menus , it is not well looking with the words that out of the boxes. The words should be well managed in a grid system inorder not to spoil the neat feeling.This website provide a lot of details for the sea food and steak to the users so that user will be able to have more opinions for the steak , enjoy the environment like they themself will be impressed with the timely recreated likeness of a sea-going vessel.

As a conclusion , the color mode need to be enhance and the spaces need to be re-organize inorder to bring out the feeling which visitors will feel comfort and enjoy browsing through this website.

Current Site's Analysis Goals

The background color of every pages can be change to another color , whether black or dark brown will do. Compare to this color , this dark red color not really making sense that show this is a steak restaurant, and this color is too plain by not having any color tones. And by right , the copyright supposingly putting in following the grid but obviously this copyright is not following the grid. Therefore it is not comfortable look.

For the "About Us" page , there are too many words being used as it would make users feel boring reading through and it would be better if most of the content are formed with images. This is because due to researches , most users nowadays like to see more images rather than text. So , by using more images it will increase the amount of users to browse this site.

Besides , for the menus , it is not well looking with the words that out of the boxes. The words should be well managed in a grid system inorder not to spoil the neat feeling. For the menus part too , the usage of delicious food images can be added more inorder to attract the users. Overall the color used was very dead and need to change to more energetic color to make overall site more "alive".

Client's Analysis

Mr. Foo Hee Hoon who is the person who started The Ship and other partners almost single-handedly took on the formidable challenge to start The Ship restaurant (The Ship), opening at Jalan Sultan Ismail what was later to become one of the many more outlets all over Malaysia.

Besides,Mr. Foo Hee Hoon was then together with his equally talented wife and their hand-picked chefs were on hand daily to serve up a wide variety of the tastiest western food from the choicest and freshest ingredients, which had patrons returning for more. This eventually gained The Ship the reputation of serving The Best Steak In Town, which essentially was the great food, well served under a unique decorative setting and on top of that all prices are value for money. The unique exterior of its restaurant resemble an almost life-size hull of a ship, and on stepping inside one will be impressed with the finely recreated likeness of a sea-going vessel.

In the face of growing competition, The Ship not only confidently hold on to its own premier position but has since expanded further with 5 more outlets at strategic locations, and more are being planned. More importantly, each of these outlets has proven a tremendous success story in its own right.

The booming economy in the late 1980s contributed to Malaysia consumers expecting more than a good meal alone, so The Ship introduced live musical entertainment to its selected outlets, bringing in the concept of wine, dine and be entertained. Customers' response was nothing short of fantastic, and musical entertainment has since become a favourite, regular part of The Ship.

Short and Long-term Site Goals

The redesign reason for the website is to enable this website to last for a long time , inorder to reach this goal , there must be some changes from the current design to attract more users to visit this site again and again . Firstly , the layout should be change to a more comfortable look with a great grid system. The color mode need to be change to a more alive color and this enable users to feel warm and following the grow of the site.

More than that , the latest promotion of current site need to be enlarge so that it would be easier to grab user's attention. More images can be use to replace those text because too much usage of text will make the users feel bored.

Target Audience

Due to The Ship that is a steak restaurant , so the range would be a huge area , no matter what is the ages of customer , they still be able to have their meals in The Ship restaurant. The prices also affordable .

So , for those users who interested , they can browse through The ship's website first to get more information before they go. Mostly for them who log on to this site is to get their newest promotion and prices or location. So this would be convenient for the users , they can just rely on the website.

[Beautiful-site] http://www.shanghebang.com/

2009-05-18T12:50:00.000-07:00

This site is wonderful with the old style feeling that it brings. The color mode making the whole website look elegant. For the music part , it making visitors perfectly drop into the feeling which is a traditional chinese style mood. The layout is following the grid and overall it make all things look neat and perfect.

[Beautiful-site] http://www.cesarclub.com.tw/

2009-05-18T12:48:00.000-07:00

This site is well with its color. It makes visitors feel warm and comfortable , enjoying visiting this website. The music is not too hard , it is soft enough to let the visitors to follow all the way the music brings. The layout is quite nice with no plain boxy which make visitors bored.

[Beautiful-site] http://www.modelline.com.cn/

2009-05-18T12:45:00.000-07:00

This main page of this site look elegant and giving a feel like wanted to explore more. With the dark color combination , it make sense. The music part is making the site more interesting. There is a little bit animation in this site in order not making the site boring. Every pages was having different sound track to avoid visitors to feel bored.

[Beautiful-site] http://cruze.chevrolet.com.cn/

2009-05-18T05:13:00.001-07:00

This website is quite active-look with its animation. The loading page is interesting with the little animation .It brings a feeling like we are ready for it. The music being used is also suitable for this web. The music makes whole website more energy. For the Clicking sound , it also make sense with the robotic sound. The overall color was making the pages look smart.

4 URL of Design Tutorials

2009-05-15T05:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1
http://www.cgtutorials.com/c9/Adobe_Photoshop/popular/2
http://www.tutorialkit.com/
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/05/50-truly-useful-photoshop-tutorials-for-amazing-photo-effects.html

4 URL of html / CSS / Javascript code library tutorials

2009-05-15T05:13:00.001-07:00

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
http://www.2kweb.net/html-tutorial/
http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
http://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial/

competitor's site ( http://www.lonestar.com.au/)

2009-05-15T04:41:00.000-07:00

For what I have found in this website is that it can be consider a perfect site . For The color used , It really make sense with all the color combination. It wont makes the site-visitors boring with a lot of nice pictures being show around the site. All the details and information is specific nicely and there are food gallery form with pictures with delicious look ! As what can be observe , this restaurant used the cowboy as the representative element and the feeling that is being bring is perfectly suit to the cowboy. As a conclusion, this website is having more details and information compare to its competitor ‘s site.

competitor's site ( http://www.grubsteakrestaurant.com )

2009-05-15T04:20:00.000-07:00

The background color used in these pages which is grey is not really look elegant . Because by using grey color , it feels like very cold color and not really suit with the neat and tidy- look pictures. It would be better if the background color change to solid black. For the menu part , it is not user friendly because in order to have a look for the menu , we need to click on the menu and there pop-up a menu in pdf format. It is not convenient for those site-visitors which their pc doesn’t have adobe reader to read the menu as the menu require pc’s adobe reader. More than that ,All the pictures that being used are well-looking . Overall the information was perfectly delivered but the color mode still can be enhance to a better levels.

competitor's site ( http://www.steakrestaurant.ca/ )

2009-05-15T03:59:00.000-07:00

Every pages of this site is having a black of background color and the combination of all the pictures with the background color makes overall site look elegant and high-standard which feel like only the wealthy people manage to have their meal at here. Everything is following the grid system and feel from the overall site , it was bringing a boxy feel, neat and tidy . For the menu part too , it will be better if there are delicious food pictures being putting in. There is also a promotion that this restaurant gave which is by clicking the top right sentence , there comes a pop-up to show what is new . Overall , the pictures used look neat and tidy , elegant and it were perfectly match for the background color which being used.

(competitor's site ) -http://www.the-steakhouse.com/

2009-05-15T03:17:00.000-07:00

For the main page for this site , the navigation is interesting with the swapping images when the cursor point on the buttons which is the original button ( beef ) change to a cooked beef. However , the idea of this swapping images is well but the consistency of this images is not well done because before , there was a graphic style of beef and after , there was a real picture of a beef. It should be using the same type of pictures. The background being used in this mainpage is too “Dead” , don’t really feel that this site is for steaks , very silent feel where a steak site suppose to give the feeling like hot , delicious . For the inner pages , the background suddenly change from a black feeling to all-white feeling. Besides, the navigation also change to a different position. This 2 points is not consistent. More than that , for the menu part , the details of each an every dishes is stated well . It will be better if there are pictures of the dishes being show.

Client's Site ( www.theship.com.my) - Steak

2009-05-15T03:11:00.000-07:00

user-testing

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- mood board -

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- Great Interface Design -

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- Paper fold -

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- How to make a ball by paper -

2009-01-13T16:46:00.000-08:00

The pic above will be the final out come of the ball that I'm going to do with paper.

- Loading Page -

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- Main Page -

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- Story Scene -

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- Story Scene -

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- Story Scene -

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- Ending -

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- Game Page -

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- Wallpaper 2 -

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Another wallpaper for my mobile icon..

- Wallpaper -

2008-06-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

This is the wallpaper that I have done for the icons.. juz a simple design..wats ur opinion for this wallpaper?

feel free to leave comments..=)

thanks..

- Pixel Icon Design - ( User Test )

2008-06-08T14:00:00.001-07:00

Juz abt the same , this is the icons design being made for mobile phone icons. But then they are now being done in the pixels way as what mobile phone did. Pixel icon is easier to be done compare with the one before. But den there is not much detail to add in pixel icons.

kindly pls leave comments for these icons too..ur comment will be improving me.. thanks ya..

- Icon Design - ( User Test )

2008-06-08T11:52:00.000-07:00

My icon design~lol

All the icons above are my icon design for mobile phone icons with the theme-plant.

and frens, kindly pls do me a favour, leave some comments for this icons whether they are recognizable?

wat do u guys think these icons represent for..?

looking forward and highly appreciate for ur comments..

thanks. =)

- Colour palette -

2008-06-02T15:26:00.000-07:00

hello..

2008-05-30T04:44:00.000-07:00

Hello , thanks for viewing . This is the first time I created my blog =p.
Actually I have been visiting alot of others blog , but den never think of having my
own blog. ( It seems boring and tiring ..eating up so much time summore ..zz ) hahax.. many said that it was interesting to have a blog to share own story , opinions and idea with others mayb?..perhaps it was ..btw , Im trying it =) ..I have just got the time to write a starting post after few days i registered. Quite busy recently.. but finally i get the chance to write..LOL.. not much story to share actually =x ,so , just a simple starting post ya. But for the coming days , pls leave some comments for my post ya frens. I would like to appreciate for ur visits. Thanks =)