Welcome to my new site!
February 9, 2013
Go on, take a look around. You will find it doesn’t take very long to take a full tour.
I thought for a while on what kind of style I wanted to craft my site after. Did I want an ornate style? Something content-rich? In viewing other sites both for class and my own leisure, I found the simpler the page, the better. Navigation tended to be easier to use, content was easier to read and the overall web experience was hassle-free.
The home page was simple to design after I thought of the concept. I wanted a white background in order to make reading easier, with a low-key color scheme. I found a font I liked called “Harlow Solid Italic” while browsing through the Adobe library. I used it for the main logo and navigation buttons.
The rest of the home page I put into a blog format, which is what you’re reading from now. I’m not sure if Weebly has a “blog” element you can insert which automatically formats for you. I didn’t find anything of the sort, so I’m doing it manually for now.
The “about” section is where I included my prior experience, as well as a personal bio. The images included are from my facebook page.
The “resources” section is where I included by sources of inspiration, reference and my classmates’ pages.
The “site map” is its own namesake. I opted for a simple design to match a simple website. No need complicating what is really an uncomplicated site design.
As you click through the navigation, you may notice the way I decided to distinguish the pages from another. Instead of putting a text title on each page, I inverted the colors of the page’s button on the navigation bar. It was easy to do, aesthetically pleasing and practical.
I started this project on Adobe Dreamweaver, but found that my HTML skills just weren’t fast enough for the vision I had for this website. I am also taking an HTML class this semester. While my skills are improving, each step was so burdensome and tedious.
I decided, at our professor’s suggestion, to try out Weebly. It was so simple to use that it almost felt like cheating. But the purpose of this class is not to learn the nitty-gritty fine-tuning details of web design, but to learn how to organize a website and its content in a way that best suits a visitor’s needs.
All graphics are my own, so you may notice that I do not list many outside websites in my Resources page. I made the navigation buttons using Adobe Photoshop.
My major in journalism (with a concentration in public relations) helped significantly in developing the content for the site. Among the virtues of journalism is a succinct, to-the-point writing style. As I was reading Writing for the Web, I found much of the advice within very familiar.
I hope you enjoyed visiting my site! Please feel free to send me feedback in the comment box below.
Posted by Kevin at 6:26 PM.
Go on, take a look around. You will find it doesn’t take very long to take a full tour.
I thought for a while on what kind of style I wanted to craft my site after. Did I want an ornate style? Something content-rich? In viewing other sites both for class and my own leisure, I found the simpler the page, the better. Navigation tended to be easier to use, content was easier to read and the overall web experience was hassle-free.
The home page was simple to design after I thought of the concept. I wanted a white background in order to make reading easier, with a low-key color scheme. I found a font I liked called “Harlow Solid Italic” while browsing through the Adobe library. I used it for the main logo and navigation buttons.
The rest of the home page I put into a blog format, which is what you’re reading from now. I’m not sure if Weebly has a “blog” element you can insert which automatically formats for you. I didn’t find anything of the sort, so I’m doing it manually for now.
The “about” section is where I included my prior experience, as well as a personal bio. The images included are from my facebook page.
The “resources” section is where I included by sources of inspiration, reference and my classmates’ pages.
The “site map” is its own namesake. I opted for a simple design to match a simple website. No need complicating what is really an uncomplicated site design.
As you click through the navigation, you may notice the way I decided to distinguish the pages from another. Instead of putting a text title on each page, I inverted the colors of the page’s button on the navigation bar. It was easy to do, aesthetically pleasing and practical.
I started this project on Adobe Dreamweaver, but found that my HTML skills just weren’t fast enough for the vision I had for this website. I am also taking an HTML class this semester. While my skills are improving, each step was so burdensome and tedious.
I decided, at our professor’s suggestion, to try out Weebly. It was so simple to use that it almost felt like cheating. But the purpose of this class is not to learn the nitty-gritty fine-tuning details of web design, but to learn how to organize a website and its content in a way that best suits a visitor’s needs.
All graphics are my own, so you may notice that I do not list many outside websites in my Resources page. I made the navigation buttons using Adobe Photoshop.
My major in journalism (with a concentration in public relations) helped significantly in developing the content for the site. Among the virtues of journalism is a succinct, to-the-point writing style. As I was reading Writing for the Web, I found much of the advice within very familiar.
I hope you enjoyed visiting my site! Please feel free to send me feedback in the comment box below.
Posted by Kevin at 6:26 PM.