Thursday, September 13, 2007

Pulling my Finger Out

I have 3 things I really need to do*

1. Re-do my website
2. Sort out Photos of Leah
3. Create a Leah DVD from my Camcorder


1. Redo my Site
Yeah Yeah Yeah - Still coming soonI stupidly decided to re-design my website, I say stupidly as rather than do the redesign then upload and replace the current version, I took the site down with a "Coming Soon" message. After a few months, the site is still coming soon, I am intending on using a template site to base it on, with tabbed tops that link to photos, family, gadgets and other stuff. I have yet to find the template to use but will ned to get it done very soon.

2. Sort out Photos of Leah
I have thousands of photos of Leah, I want to pick the best 100 and create a photo album from birth.

3. Create a DVDI now have lots of footage which I intend on creating a DVD from, the trouble with home movies however is the 100 hours of footage you start with ends up being 5 minutes of decent film. I have a HD (Hard Drive) Camera so the transfer to my PC will be easy, I intend on using Sony Vegas to capture the footage, something like Adobe Premier for editing and maybe After Effects for any special effects, titles etc.

I guess it all boils down to a: being arsed and b: having the inspiration/creative flair to do so, Unlike Taoski, I'm far from creative, getting my ideas from t'internet bores the hell out of me.

Therefore
  • My website is will be a very basic, quick loading site
  • Leahs Photo Album is fairly straightforward, I have messed around ith Photoshop and created some half-decent photos
  • The DVD will be a "pre-release" therefore not have any special effects
Any ideas greatly welcomed.


* I actually have about 33 things to do but SWMBO doesn't read my blog so the other 30 "house things" can go on hold.

2 comments:

Tao said...

Good plan matey!

1. Install wordpress on your site.
You can then blog there, add pages and links to stuff and there are 1000s of designs/themes to choose from.
Much less hassle than doing a whole site IMHO.

2. I was going to suggest you make a photobook using one of the online facilties. The Apple iPhoto photo books are really good. If your local Tesco sells Apple stuff - go there - they have some examples.

3. iMove on the Mac will do all of that for you! In one program!

(sorry - mac fanboy entry ends...)

Damian Byrne said...

Thanks for that Tao, not exactly a cheap way of getting it all done though...