For my introductory website I created a site where someone who knew nothing about me could learn more about some of my interests as well as a few other things I enjoy. I created this site primarily based off of a template I found. I used an online template for the opening homepage of my site. I also utilized my tutorial website as the internal linked pages, however I did heavily alter those. The process of creating this site was both difficult and frustrating at times. I came into this course with practically no prior experience coding or working with html or css. I learned a lot from looking at other websites and using the develop tab in safari to understand how the sites I liked were coded. My final product site came about from hours of looking at other code for examples and playing with my code to find how I could positively alter it to make it more resemble the site I had planned out in my head. I had very initial high hopes for my website but very quickly realized that my dreams for my site were not going to come true. I hoped for something that was both very simple but also very visually appealing at the same time. I believe my site did achieve a simplistic look and feel but it lacks what I was envisioning when it comes to the look of it. I am pretty happy with how my three internal pages look but my homepage is what I would have liked to be more visually appealing. If I had more time, and experience coding I would want my homepage to look more modern and sleek in its visual design. The modes I utilized when creating my site were both visual and linguistic. I not only had a simple design as I previously discussed but I also wrote the text elements on my site in a way that was very introductory. What I mean by this is someone who has never met me before could open my site and learn about me without any prior knowledge. You would not have to be a close friend of mine to understand what I am talking about within my textual elements. The visual mode of my site is created not only through the design of the site but also through the images on my site. All of the images on my site have a specific purpose wether that be complementing something presented in one of the sections of text or just to give the viewer some added context as to what I was describing. On each of my internal linked pages I had three images, all of which often correlated directly to the text on the page. My largest design strategy in this introductory website was being simplistic and straightforward. I did not want a viewer to open the site and be overwhelmed with an excessive amount of information in either text or images for that matter. Many sites I looked at prior to creating my own seemed to overwhelm the viewer very quickly. The more information included on the site not only made it overbearing but often times made it difficult to navigate as well. My primary design goal when creating my site was to avoid this by making a simple yet effective site.
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