The Daily ALIEN is the official news and information service for the Siasan network. Our aim is to inform readers of the latest news and events happening around Siasan. We will also publish tutorials, design commentary and random hints & tips.

We are also able to bring you previews of layouts and designs. Readers are invited to provide comments and critique on these designs – your feedback may be incorporated into design revisions!

Of course the most important things that will be included are aliens! From the start of March to the end of October, The Daily ALIEN will present 200 hand-drawn aliens. This is somewhere in the region of 1 alien per working day, which is where we get the title ‘The Daily ALIEN’. (There’s more detail about this on the About page).

Coming soon

Gallery

‘Gallery’ is Emma J Lomman’s major project for the Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media (the course she’s studying). It’s primarily going to be an image gallery, but it will also include extras such as web templates and CMS themes. In the next couple of weeks we will be posting the visual design here for comment. As a reader exclusive we will also occasionally publish ‘advance content’ throughout the development cycle. Another upcoming feature (hopefully) is the revelation of this project’s much cooler-sounding name that doesn’t exist yet.

Design theory

This is another school project where Emma is going to be looking at web design styles and trends. She’ll be writing a series of posts on this subject over the next few months.

Design portfolio of Emma J Lomman

Wander over to www.siasan.com and you’ll find that it’s rather bare. The reason for this is that the design portfolio is still in development. As with ‘Gallery’, we’ll post designs here.

200 Aliens

Yes, Emma really is going to scan all 200 of these cute little things and post them here. She’ll also tell everyone more about the project and possibly make up a tutorial on how to draw aliens.