Monday, April 21, 2008

Homepage and style

It has been a while since the last blog. That is because my parents have been here and I have been traveling with them. But my sister is into creative web design and she gave me a few ideas that I like.

On the left side of the website, I would like to have all the different identities that I have, and when you scroll over them the text will change. I would like to make the text increase and change style as the mouse rolls over. Also I was thinking about adding music to some of my pages. This helps to add design to my website, and take away a little bit from the art.

On my homepage I have those few pictures. When the mouse rolls over those pictures, text graphics will pop up explaining what that identity is in a word or two. This gives me a chance to play around with text, and make it more of a graphic rather than just writing. The graphic does not have to be just on that picture, but it can expand across the whole page just when the mouse rolls over. I was looking at the Bellagio hotel, and the type of rollover that they have is very simple, but they have the general concept of what I want. Rather when you roll over the sections on my website, the text will change more drastically rather than just get high lighted.



I keep trying to think of different ways to improve my website, but not too complicated because I have never done anything with computers like this before. I want to include video as well on the pages to help improve what my identity really is.

1 comment:

Web art & design said...

rollover text is often interesting – visually stimulating.
Can you post on your blog a few sites that have interesting text links?
Also you idea for sound. There a few links to sound sample sites :: ( http://www.monocromatica.com/netlabel/links.htm ). You need to use ONLY small amount of sound because sound is big on file size.
The bellagio.com site is a probably a bit conservative for you! unless you want to be ironical?!
I recommend strongly you go through most of the sites linked in the class blog – see which interests you - visually and for ideas.