I made my site by using a template, but I found that the template I chose, while very simple, was still too complicated for my purposes. I ended up deleting a lot of the html and using only very basic parts of the template, including the footer and the navigation bar at the top of the page. Initially, the template had a sidebar that expanded when clicked on, but I found this unnecessary when there was already a navigation bar at the top of the page.
I changed the number of tabs in the navigation bar to four. The first one links to the starting page, the second to an “about me” section, the third to a page of my own pictures, and the fourth to my list of desert island books. I made sure that each page could link to each other page, which was actually much easier than I anticipated it being. The most difficult part of creating the site was probably sizing my pictures correctly. There was a lot of guesswork involved. I’m sure that there was probably an easier way of figuring out how big my pictures needed to be, but my guess and check method eventually resulted in success. I didn’t have a grand vision of what I wanted from this project, because I am a realize and I know that using html doesn’t come naturally to me. Some parts of the site exceeded my expectations; I really like the way the background image looks, for instance, and I like the navigation bar with the font I choose for it. Some other parts didn’t go as well; I ran out of time working on my photo page and only included four. I meant to add captions to each one, but I could figure out how to do that in a way that would look good, so I ended up leaving the photos on their own. The link I included is to my Weebly blog. I think it looks a little awkward by itself at the bottom of my “about me” page, but I didn’t want to include it in the paragraphs on that page, either. If I was better at html and coding, I would have liked to make my home page a bit more polished, and I would have wanted to make my name a lot larger and in the middle of the screen. I also would have liked to create a photo gallery that looked nicer. The modes I used in this project are visual, linguistic, and spatial. The visual choice I made to include a background photo is probably the most significant visual choice I made. My intention is that it will make people enjoy looking at the site. My linguistic choices were not as well thought out as they normally are, because I was so focused on the design element. Overall, my intention with modes is to make an appealing site. I think my most noticeable design element is alignment, because I aligned most of the items on my pages to the left. In general, I tried to make my design as simple as possible, because I prefer sites that don’t force the audience to take in too much at once. I want my audience to perceive me as calm person who enjoys simplicity.
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