So, my goal for this project is to do more of the animations and to tweak my website to make it look better. I have chosen a couple of websites that have the basics of what I want the end product to look like.
Last semester, I chose Paravel as a website that I enjoyed the taste of. I still want to keep this model of organization.
They create responsive web sites, which are supposed to be very easy to use and available to resize on several different technological appliances, so they make good use of Div Tags, as opposed to AP Div Tags, which is a good choice in a time where smartphones and tablets are becoming more popular in use. Their simple and sleek web layout is attractive, easy to read, and easy to negotiate.
I also wish to emulate the journalistic blog style of my friend, Carolyn, who used a template to build her website The Young Catholic Woman. She adds a lot about her personal anecdotes and opinions, and she ends up having lot of writing, but this is successfully broken up by large pictures that help to add visual content. Sometimes her visuals are interesting because there has to be a forced connection between the visual and the written context, this connects with the Osborne reading that we did about how we receive art in distraction, and how art is distraction.
For websites, where the general idea of being online is an inherent distraction because there is such easy access to alternate information, the tone of websites and the affected culture of reading seems to need a lot of visual content to help distract the reader every once in a while in order to maintain interest in the information. Carolyn's use of large pictures that alternate sides of the blocked text area succeeds in this type of distraction.
Last semester, I chose Paravel as a website that I enjoyed the taste of. I still want to keep this model of organization.
Within the site is a portfolio of different sites that the team has worked to create. The layout of the site is very simple, using black and white rollover images in a grid layout to organize their works. After clicking on their images, you are taken to a new page where they have a large image capturing the design of their sites.
Below the main image, the page is divided into several small sections by a simple gray line. Each section contains small captures of aspects of the sites they create, and then simply describe the process of their designs. Their images are very clean, but they add in elements of "homemade" which is most likely Ray's doing.
I also wish to emulate the journalistic blog style of my friend, Carolyn, who used a template to build her website The Young Catholic Woman. She adds a lot about her personal anecdotes and opinions, and she ends up having lot of writing, but this is successfully broken up by large pictures that help to add visual content. Sometimes her visuals are interesting because there has to be a forced connection between the visual and the written context, this connects with the Osborne reading that we did about how we receive art in distraction, and how art is distraction.
For websites, where the general idea of being online is an inherent distraction because there is such easy access to alternate information, the tone of websites and the affected culture of reading seems to need a lot of visual content to help distract the reader every once in a while in order to maintain interest in the information. Carolyn's use of large pictures that alternate sides of the blocked text area succeeds in this type of distraction.
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