Welcome to the site of Daan v.d Veen

progress

October 2 2017

Progress on the site is going well. The portfolio is coming along nicely and my programming characters has improved a lot, it now even has snow 
and other interactive features.
The personality of the site (or my own touch) is resembled in the lay out and the footer section.
The footer sections now contains a copyright mark of myself. furthermore the added items in the portfolio give it more of a personal feeling.
I still have to create and add the emblem i wanted (see first progress post), but I haven't found a good way to create it with a better 
quality yet.

Progress

September 25 2017

I've added some more portfolio items, 3 more drawings from my high school and the robot i made with my do-group during the kick-in.
I've also added a feature that makes the site more appealing on smaller screens. Once a text doesnt fit on the screen, the textbox gets
a scroll option so you can scroll horizontally to see the text wich would normally have overflowed.

In my programming class I; ve cleaned up my code a bit. I removed several lines and replaced certain values. Also, I made the penguin a class
rather than something you would have to draw in the void draw everytime I want to add another penguin. I've also tuned down the scale by
0,2. now i can fit more penguin on the screen. The goal I want to achieve this week is to make an interactive background and make the 
program do different things if you press different keys. Things such as adding an iceberg, more penguins or make them do different things
would be really great.

Short video of the processing penguin:

Progress

september 12 2017

I've made progress with my website.
so far I've added a background image and made the lay-out for the blog.
I'm trying to make the header of the page more interesting by adding some sort of symbol or logo. Perhaps a logo which I've been using for several years
in my online projects (mostly minecraft) and as a recognizable feature in my steam profile. The nav bar and the footer however look great.
Although the aside bar at the bottom needs some attention. I was thinking about some links there which might give the user a better way of contacting me.
furthermore I've transferred the style of the website into one stylesheet instead of having a style on each different page.
At first I had great trouble with making a transparent, yet colored box for the blog, but there's nothing hard work can't achieve (and by hard work I mean teamwork).

Things I still want to add to my site:
- More items in the portfolio
- A better/easier way to update my blog
- Link to platform which the user could use to contact me.

Basic design;


My processing project has had an upgrade as well.
The hand of the penguin is now waving at you when you press a key on the keyboard.
As it turns out, the solution i've looking for for over a week was simply adding a sinus-function in the rotate program.
Anyway, he looks really cute now.