The view towards the water and downtown from North Vancouver, where they are building another barricade of condos.

This is my old high school, Max Cameron Senior Secondary. It's abandoned now, the grounds are covered in tall weeds and parts of it are covered in grafitti. I think it's mostly used by kids to smoke illicit cigarettes behind, or by skateboarders who do stunts on its outdoor staircases.

This is the view from the Pitt River bridge on a misty October day.

While making a website, I tried to find ones I admired in order to take some cues from them. One is the Peggy Guggenheim Museum site. I like the use of black-and-white photography at the top which gives the page good balance, the whitespace and the muted, coordinated colors.

Prada's site looks luxurious because it uses large blocks of solid, dark colors, yet displays clothes/models on white backgrounds to give clearer images. The contrast between dark and light works well, as does the use of moving images.

Recently Douglas College, where I attend the Print Futures Professional Writing program, redesigned its website.

The new site, with a large block of color and simple graphic, is more appealing and accessible than the old site. The new site has a less institutional feel and is brighter and more modern; the photos of the two Douglas campuses provide a detailed contrast to the simple block of color.

I think the new website, which is simple and colorful, will be more appealing to a younger audience and perhaps less appealing to more mature students. People who are accustomed to the old website will have to take a bit of time to learn the new locations of menu items, but the layout of the new page is quite similar to the old page and won't pose many frustrations.

The only weakness is the light color of the font at the top of the page that lists some menu items. The font is light enough that viewers might not notice these options.