In the lead up to my website design submission I have been finalising the design and function of my final website and I am happy to say I am very pleased with how it has turned out I have since removed my blog navigation button as it was only cosmetic because it didn’t link anywhere and would cause more navigation problems than it solved. I have chosen the slide left animation to get from page to page because it almost emulates a workbook that people can flick through but have also added a slide right animation for transitions back to the home page. I now have 4 master pages: Home, portfolio, radio and contact and 2 secondary pages: photography and work experience. I also created six other pages which simply house the 6 separate photos from my photography gallery.
Furthermore, I have created a separate mobile view for my site, obviously with the amount of pages I have I cannot have a header navigation set up because they won’t all fit, do what I opted for instead is a menu button which will take you to menu page where all the page options are housed so that navigation is simpler and cleaner on each page. When designing the mobile view it was mainly a case of moving the elements from the desktop view over to the smaller template provided by Adobe Xd, I decided to the same thing with the photography page with regards to enlarging my images even though they are much the same size.
Throughout the design process I paid close attention to composition and how elements fit on a page together and how blank space is used cleverly to create a more visually pleasing final design. the colour palette I chose for the website is very muted because I wanted the photos and text I added in later to pop off the page which is the same reason I added drop shadows on page titles so that the elements of the page almost hover above the photo of me in the background and so that the design wasn’t flat and boring.
Overall I am really pleased with the website I have designed however in future I may have included contact links on pages rather than having a page dedicated to it. Also I would’ve liked to have a greater range of work to display on the site because it would’ve given me more to work with in terms of elements and content presentation.
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