webpage design malarky

Ok this webpage design malarky is bloody long, I'm having to teach myself dreamweaver and html code as I go along, and it doesn't help that the VLP online tutorials are broken!

Despite it all, I've manged to create a page, one of the animations if bugged but the roll over works as does the liking to a fresh window. I've figured how to stop the background tiling,but I can't figure out how to fix the browser height and width.

tj -x-

beard with face

Day 5

Idea for how the site pages would work

The idea is to have 9 pages in which when you enter them you have to scroll up and down to find the ckues to the mystery of the missing professor. There will be notes of different types of beard species from NOttingham. Try to add some animation of hairs growing in to the page when you scroll down the page. There will be arrows to help guide you to the next page. In some pages there will be items you find that will help you get through the beard such as scissors and clippers etc. when you have found the note from the journal in a page you will be able to click on it to enlarge it in another smaller window.

visual clue page ideas

Ideas for the visual clue page, showing part of a mans face, so the user works out the website is actually a giant beard.

Sign ideas for the navigation link

website plan

Day 3&4

Day 4 of the beard growth experience.
A lil itching of the chin today but nothing major


Day 3 of the beard growth experience.
Same as the day before..

another lenton student beard

ideas from my sketchbook

Mock ups of Professor edward morris journal

'Facial - fro' from Sneinton

General Booth of The Salvation Army
Born on April 10, 1829(1829-04-10)
In Sneinton, Nottingham, England

William Booth was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became the first General (1878-1912).

William Booth statue at his birth place in Nottingham.

Football Facial hair

Looking at the Fashion of facial hair in football. In the late 1800s - the early 1900s the fashion was to have a 'Lip Warner', single (very bushy) moustache. As you can see in the 1885 Nottingham Forest team, they all have the 'Lip Warmer', also warn by Notts footballer Herbert Kilpin. Todays style in football (if they have a beard) is the fashionable stubble, 'Chin-chiller' or the neat shape-up.


Jermaine Pennant, originally from Nottingham. Played for Notts County, now playing for Liverpool. Sporting the fashionable stubble that most players have these days.


Nottingham Forest 1885 team.
The team above played in the only FA cup final played outside England.


Herbert Kilpin (January 28, 1870 – 1916) was an English footballer. He started playing in his home town with Notts Olympic

Beards in Religion

Beards play an important role in some religions

Christianity
In Eastern Christianity, beards are often worn by members of the priesthood, and at times have been required for all believers - see Old Believers. Amish and Hutterite men shave until they are married, then grow a beard and are never thereafter without one, although it is a particular form of a beard (see Visual markers of marital status).
Nowadays, members of many Catholic religious communities, mainly those of Franciscan origin, use a beard as a sign of their vocation.

Judaism

Many Orthodox Jews grow beards for social and cultural reasons. Since the electric razor is a relatively modern innovation, virtually all Orthodox Jews grew beards before its advent. Beards are thus symbolic of keeping the traditions of one's ancestors. The Zohar, one of the primary sources of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), attributes holiness to the beard, specifying that hairs of the beard symbolize channels of subconscious holy energy that flows from above to the human soul. Therefore, most Hasidic Jews, for whom Kabbalah plays an important role in their religious practice, traditionally do not remove or even trim their beards.

Sikhism
Sikhs consider the beard to be an integral part of the male human body as created by God and believe that it should be preserved, maintained, and respected as such. Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, ordained and established the keeping of the hair and beard as part of the identity and one of the insignia of Sikh males. Sikhs consider the beard to be part of the nobility and dignity of manhood.

Islam
Many Muslims believe that it is mandatory by Islamic law to grow the beard because in Sahih Bukhari the Prophet said, "Do the opposite of what the pagans do. Keep the beards and cut the moustaches short."Following the Prophet's actions is very important as well since he was proclaimed as a walking Quran and Muslims try their utmost to follow the teachings of the Quran. Since the Prophet kept a beard, many Muslim men keep beards to follow his actions and the teachings of the religion. Depending on their sect, they have differing opinions on how the Prophet Muhammad wore his.
According to the majority opinions in the four major Sunni schools of jurisprudence, a beard is mandatory for all men, unless they have a medical reason not to grow one. The exception is the Shafi`i Madhab, which includes two valid opinions, one stating that a beard is required and one stating that a beard is Sunnah Mu'akadah (An emphasized example set by the Prophet, but not required). Minority opinions exist in all four schools that the beard is optional, but virtuous.
Prophet Muhammed also was quoted as saying that growing the beard is part of the Abrahamic tradition that Muslims have inherited. God commanded Abraham to keep his beard, shorten his mustache, clip his nails, shave the hair around his genitals, and pluck the hair in his armpit; accordingly Muslims starting with their Prophet Muhammed emulate Abraha

Rastafari Movement
A male Rastafarian's beard is a sign of his pact with God (Jah or Jehovah), and his Bible is his source of knowledge. Leviticus 21:5 ("They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in the flesh.")

Doing some more research in to well known people from Nottingham.
Pitchshifter are an English rock/metal/industrial metal band from Nottingham.
Originally known as Pitch Shifter. In the bottom pic they are all mostly sporting a "Chin-chiller". The single shaped beard from under the mouth.

William Abednego Thompson (18 October 1811 – 23 August 1880) was an English bare-knuckle boxer.

Born in Nottingham in 1811, Thompson was the last of 21 children, himself one of triplets named Abednego, Shadrach and Meshak, after the young men in the Book of Daniel who emerged from the fiery furnace of Babylon.

Yesterday i looked at the 2001 census for nottingham, i was mainly looking at religion and ethnicity as i thought this would have an impact on the type of beards people would have. For example some areas have a higher population of sikhs, who have a certain style of beard and consider the beard to be an integral part of the male human body as created by God and believe that it should be preserved, maintained, and respected. I added the findings from the statistics on to a map, which i divided in to the main areas nottingham.

Lenton Beards

Yestaday I wondered around Lenton area taking snaps of the "Beards of Lenton". Most people i encountered were students. I found there to be types of student beards. There is the "Bum fluff", which is basically the small growth of whiskers from the top lip and under the chin. Not developed because the person has not shaven at all in there life.Next there is the "freshers stubble", which is the young students how have jus started shaving and all the facial hair has'nt quite grown round the whole mouth and chin area. And then theres the "Mature growth", this is the mature students fully grown beard which has been shaven down leaving a lil piece under the mouth or a small moustach, but still being able to see the full stubble around the rest of the beard area.
Other beards i encountered ranged from the "Face-fro" to the Neatly trimmed.

Here are a few examples of the photos i took...


Heres James Sporting the lil piece of "bum fluff".. on the top lip and under the chin.
Hard to see but very appreciated by the wearer



Heres Bill showing off his "Face-fro".. fully grown beard.
This takes dedication and time.