As for the my final finished design i am really very proud of it and feel i have done a good job to say its my first real attempt at making a website. Although its not a website thats all coded and you don't get a liquid adaptive view with it, so people can see it to scale no matter what the device. Its still given me a good sense to what it could be like. However you can still see what it would look like as i have designed it to fit my laptop screen, which you can preview the size as if it was live. Also with the website i dint feel it was worth me putting on an account so people could by things like my magazine because it would have been a hell of a lot of work and it wouldn't have improved the overall look of my website. Obviously if this project was to stretch on longer or i was designing this website for a real company then you would put an account on there.
I feel my website really represents my magazine well and follows the same in house style, with the striped back, bold and simplistic look. For example when you first open the page you are instantly greeted with bold black and white photography, to try and engage the viewer as quickly as possible! It then is a rotating banner which shows then brighter colored images so you get a contrast of styles.
As for the rest of the magazine i have tried to keep it as simple and raw as possible to give the most visual impact. You can see this most with my about page- which is intend for the readers of the magazine to find out a bit extra about AWT. But when you click onto the page you are greeted by a blank canvas with the word 'about' in small Futura text. This i feel was a big gamble as you could have looked and thought it just looks bland and blank, however i feel it does the opposite with the white space actually drawing your eye in! Leaving more room for imaginative thinking.
As for the rest of the page i have tried to use a minimum amount of text using more photographic imagery to give more visual impact for the website. I also did't put loads of writing on as from my own experience of going on websites, i get bored and switch off if theres loads of text. Which i find if there is less it keeps me more engaged for longer. This is a view i have used throughout my website!
Overall i am very pleased with the look of my website and i have enjoyed doing it as i have had to learn new skills, and try and work my way round software i haven't used before. Which is hard as like with photoshop i know what i am doing and can move around it really quickly. But with this everything takes you 5 x as long because you have to look around to find the right button, look at tutorials and then work it out from there. However towards the end of making my website i now feel much more confident in using it.
I feel my website really represents my magazine well and follows the same in house style, with the striped back, bold and simplistic look. For example when you first open the page you are instantly greeted with bold black and white photography, to try and engage the viewer as quickly as possible! It then is a rotating banner which shows then brighter colored images so you get a contrast of styles.
As for the rest of the magazine i have tried to keep it as simple and raw as possible to give the most visual impact. You can see this most with my about page- which is intend for the readers of the magazine to find out a bit extra about AWT. But when you click onto the page you are greeted by a blank canvas with the word 'about' in small Futura text. This i feel was a big gamble as you could have looked and thought it just looks bland and blank, however i feel it does the opposite with the white space actually drawing your eye in! Leaving more room for imaginative thinking.
As for the rest of the page i have tried to use a minimum amount of text using more photographic imagery to give more visual impact for the website. I also did't put loads of writing on as from my own experience of going on websites, i get bored and switch off if theres loads of text. Which i find if there is less it keeps me more engaged for longer. This is a view i have used throughout my website!
Overall i am very pleased with the look of my website and i have enjoyed doing it as i have had to learn new skills, and try and work my way round software i haven't used before. Which is hard as like with photoshop i know what i am doing and can move around it really quickly. But with this everything takes you 5 x as long because you have to look around to find the right button, look at tutorials and then work it out from there. However towards the end of making my website i now feel much more confident in using it.
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