Rational- Website
This was probably the most difficult and stressful assignment that I have gone through- nothing went as planned. I struggle with web-hosting, codes and css. I think I had difficulties on every aspect of this assignment. I am however, very much satisfied with my end result, after such a struggle. The kind of theme I wanted for my website was for it to have a grungy feel like the festival. After researching music sites I found that usually the images were random, and had nothing to do with the actual music. I think I chose to do vines because it does have atleast some similarity to music. I think displaying music in a theme or image is very difficult. I first did my design draft in illustrator so I could illustrate using the pen tool. I converted it to a gif file using photoshop. The main aim of my website was to make it long running and centred- I find this to be the most easiest to read and follow. I achieved a theme by having the same background image on each page and using a green, black and grey colour-scheme. At first I started using the program dream weaver but later downloaded coda and textmate- I found coda and dream weaver to be very similar. I wanted to have my navigation-menu run horizontally along the top of the website- because research had shown this to be the most common and effective. I wanted to keep the menu very simple and straight forward because the background image is so complex and all over the shot. I chose in my website to use a sans-serif font because it portrays a modern sense and compliments the grungy theme well. I used either white or grey for the text, because I these were pretty much the only colours that show through the black. I did attempt green however it did not stand out well and became part of the background. I think the design is effective for the target audience and think navigation is easy to follow.
