Lee website - evaluation

What were you asked to do? (Project brief tasks)



For my project brief, I was asked to create a web page that expressed my own individuality through its appearance, the way it navigates and its content. It must have a minimum of four separate pages, a portfolio, a home page, a links page, and an about page / contacts page.


What did you make/present?

I presented a brightly coloured webpage containing my own artwork and designs, as well as logos that have become associated with my designs to help identify my individuality. I also created a webpage that I believe was interactive and interesting to look at as well as informative in the correct areas.


What did you want to communicate?

 I wanted to communicate my own individual style within my webpage as well as my own appearance, and things that express my personality. For instance, I am a very loud person, so to show that I used bright, loud colouring to grab the audience’s attention. I also incorporated my own art style into the basic layout and background for the webpage, giving it the connotation of a child like attitude towards life. (As my art style is western orientated, meaning it has a cartoon like appearance with low colour detail and shading.)

Who was your intended audience?

My niche audience for my website is 14 to late 20 year olds who are interested in similar art styles to me. This can be connoted through the bright immature colours used to create my website, and through the background images shown. Though my website contains some mildly offensive images, they come with a warning to minors, as not to cause any problems, and they do not hold any severe violence/ sexual content / gore / language.

What materials and processes did you experiment with?

I experimented with the use of contrasting colours, such as red and blue, green and pink, orange and blue and red and green. By doing this, I was able to analyse and understand what colours fitted together well to create a well co-coordinated background image for my website.

What materials and processes did you reject?


I rejected the use of the red and green, red and blue, orange and blue backgrounds due to the haziness of the edges of the colour as it made the whole website appear confusing and unappealing. I also rejected the use of larger thumbnail images on my portfolio page due to the fact they were too small to see correctly, and therefore the art would not be able to be viewed to its full potential.

What materials and processes did you use in your final designs?


I used the green and pink background, as it looked the most appealing, and didn’t distract the attention of the chosen audience from the rest of the pages information and images. I also decided to create links from small preview thumbnails on my portfolio to separate web pages where the image could be seen fully and clearly at a decent size.

How do the materials you chose to use help you to communicate your message to your audience?


They helped me define who I am to the audience, and what my art is about, as well as my loud, boisterous nature. This can be seen through the colourful imagery used within my work, and the cartoon like style of my art.

What did you do to ensure you worked with tools and materials safely? 


To make sure I took regular breaks from working on the computer to rest my eyes, I also made sure to keep all liquids away from the equipment I was using, in case of a spill that could lead to a malfunction or and electrical surge.

How well did you manage your time? 


I used my planner to help me organize my time, though I found it hard to maintain both my work and my college work, as my job took up a lot of spare time. It was also difficult to work through as I struggled with other classes’ work as well as this project.

What were your strengths in completing this project? 


My strengths in completing this project would be in my research as I go into large amounts of connotations and denotations as to understand how other websites work well and how others do not. I also work well with my research as I gained a lot of different images to study and learn things from, meaning I could improve my own design ideas.


What would you like to have done differently?


I would have liked to start off in a different way, as I struggled with using blogger and my first little book, and I preferred to layout my work in an a3 pad, as I am more familiar with this. I also would have liked to work longer on putting my final pages together in dream weaver, as it is a new program that I am not used to yet.

What will you do to ensure you improve for the next project?

 


I will insure to improve my time management, especially when it comes down to my job and college education. I will also add further detail into my work, as well as go into deeper depth with my research. This will make the whole project a little bit easier to work with on my time scale. I will also spend longer working on dream weaver to help me understand how to create a better, more time efficient and fun website.