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I began this website thinking that I would be able to create my entire project from scratch, but it turns out I was vastly overconfident in my coding abilities. I then resorted to using a flex box layout from w3 because it seemed extremely practical and flexible for many different platforms, both mobile and desktop. Once I read some more on the w3 site I learned how to manipulate flex boxes and was able to create my music page with all the different album covers on it. That was a bit more difficult that I had imagined, and resizing all of the photos through photoshop took a bit of time. I got into a flow with all the key command shortcuts in Photoshop and I was able to finish that process in a reasonable amount of time.
My ideal website would have been a lot darker and more like the Christina Aguilera website we looked at in class. I would have loved to create an artist page, but I have no music, no tour dates, and no videos to share, so it didn’t really seem practical to try to do something like that. I am content with embedded vines and pop music album covers. I first used, obviously, the visual mode to create my website. What would have been really cool is if I created a website using only the aural mode, to be able to create mental visuals using only sound by implementing sonic landscapes and voice control, such as Siri. I could have created a whole new, almost game-like, experience. But hence, I did not do that. I used the aural mode merely as an assist to the understanding of the vines on my final page. Some vines would be funny if they had no sound, but 88% of vines are memorable because they are quotable and that requires you to be able to hear them. I also used the linguistic mode. My word choice was very underdeveloped and was supposed to be ironically simple. Uses of cliches in my bio statement and phrases such as, “pls enjoy,” were meant to portray a youthful sense of bliss and understanding of the internet culture. For the elements of design, I began with emphasis. I used color and size to emphasize the titles of the pages; having them contrast their background and making them much larger than the other words on the pages. The website was designed for the audience of our class and the one and only Professor Overall. I used proximity when designing the music page. I wanted the album covers to be close together to show how many there were, as well as to give the feel of the classic Apple “cover flow” in Mac OS Leopard from 2007. And finally, I chose to keep the default color scheme of the layout because I thought it contrasted nicely (or poorly) with my basic linguistic choices. I was going for a very ironically casual website and I think these design choices either worked to make that happen or made it look as if I didn’t try at all. I guess it will be up to the audience to see whether or not they agree with my artistic choices.
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