Hope everyone has had a good spring break! Mine was not the greatest and since Tuesday been occupied with a family emergency, but I’ll share the details later when I see y’all. However, the past day or so I have been getting back on track with my goals of finishing editing for our meet up and looking at the websites from the syllabus.
So far, I have learned that I like websites that are sweet and simple. User friendly essentially, but not so simple that everything is laid out on one page (hope that makes sense.) I like how several of the photographers including the ones I listed break the projects up by names and the navigation bar allows the user to select through them instead of being overwhelmed by a lot of photos. I feel that the average viewer could lose interest quickly, and best to break it up.
I found Martin Parr’s website creative in how he used clipart for the links. Its not my particular style but its neat how it utilizes it without it being too much. I also like how Lynsey Addario has a slideshow of her work scrolling on her homepage. I put Greta’s as a selection also, because I have been helping her with some updates on it and it has helped me appreciate the clean layout that I mentioned earlier as well as how a few of her projects have a caption that pops up when rolling over an image.
https://www.karolinakarlic.com
As far as the questions I have…
The information put into the Bio/about, is it best to be in the first or third person? Do people honestly really read it? Should it be kept short and sweet?
Headshots? I was told by past instructors to include them on my bio page, but I have seen a mix of websites that do and don’t. What do you think?
I’m sure more questions/thoughts about websites will come up when we talk on Thursday, plus I think I’ve written a lengthy enough post ;) See y’all soon!
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