Assignment 1 Rational
RationalI have decided to curate an online exhibition.Initially I decided that the most creative and unique way to produce this assignment would be through writing the website from scratch, so that's what I did. I began writing the website and began linking all the pages but I had alot of trouble formatting the website so that it would look like a legitimate website. Aside's from the fact that it is very difficult to format a website well without using an advanced program I found myself constantly looking through tutorials on Youtube and reading information on countless websites on writing code properly and trying to learn how to link websites, pages insert drawings and the general layout of the website etc. I found myself spending hours on the code and looking at it at the end of the day having almost done nothing. Eventually I decided that the website layout was taking away from the actual assignment of Creating an online exhibition.I have decided to present my website using Google sites. I have found the that Google sites is very easy to use, and is appropriate to produce the assignment with. The general website layout is already automated and there are around twenty pre-setting’s to chose from as well as it has a html alter mode so you can view the code and edit it and make it even more unique, this allowed me to create borders as well as use Photoshop to create texts and import them as images to have better looking headings. The only problem I have had with Google sites is that I cant remove the headers that are displayed on the top right of each page.Rather than just having one page I wanted to use some basic linking to different styles of photographs as well as pages dedicated to videos, links and a slideshow. I decided to do this because if I did decide to make the website bigger it would be far easier to find things as well as it would be easier to present things within groups because they would be on different pages and therefore there would be a clear distinction between different styles within the site.I looked through several other websites on how a photographic website could be formatted and I gathered that most websites were quite basic and didn’t take away from the focus of the website which is the photo’s. Most other basic photographic websites displayed photographs one under another with a caption explaining basic details of the photograph such as where it was shot, what it was shot on, shutter speed and aperture settings and a basic thought of the work or what they were trying to achieve. I basically tried to replicated this method, but I wanted to give a basic overview of how long exposure photography is produced so I did so on the cars page. Google sites also offers easy access to Youtube video’s without all the code so I thought it would also be good to utilize this feature, video’s are more exciting as well as they provide music etc. I also used slideshows which were also easy to access from Google sites, I used Picassa which is a website that looks really good and is very easy to use. Using Picassa I could put photographs directly into a folder and produce a slide show with all my own specifications.I decided to have a theme of pink text on black background with purple and blue as secondary text colours. I think the black symbolises the night and the bright colours over it symbolise the similar colours you get from a longer exposure photography. The whole site flows within the theme of night. To conclude I’m very happy with the way the website has turned out, its simple but effective and has a flowing theme.