Critically evaluating my website

Planning Stage

My initial idea was to do a site very clean, using a background with just one colour and then putting photos that would make it more interesting. However, while doing it, I tried to put a photo that I took last summer of the sunrise in Madeira Island and I really liked the result. After this, I tried to put everything together. I used has font the Futura light and the theme is Heading 2*. I think that the characters work really well with the background.

Research

For my research I looked at Jono Dry's website as well as Thierry Duval's, both fine artists. Dry's website was very clear and easy to navigate through it while Duval's was a little more difficult because it had a lot of pages and subpages. This helped me to understand what I had to do in mine so that it would be easy to navigate. As Jono Dry I used only four pages and I tried to make it as simple as possible.

Content

My website will have my artworks and drawings. Therefore, my website users are potential buyers or employers. This platform will help me to create contacts and to share my projects and drawings.

Design

For the design of my blog I used a simple navigation menu that is divided in four pages: home; portfolio; about; and contacts. It is located in the header of the website as well as my name and what the website is about: Fine art. 

The initial template that I used is entitled "Ceramic studio" and I chose it because it was very simple and elegant, which is what I am looking for my website.

Navigation

My website has two different social media icons links. One is for Blogger and the other one is for Instagram, both of them are already working and it is possible to open those social accounts. The e-mail link in "Contact" page is also working. In the website, there are four pages and each is well identified, so I think that is very easy to navigate through the website. However since it was me who created it my opinion might be different from other people's, who are searching through it for the first time.