Online Portfolio

When given the task to create my own website as an online portfolio I was excited by the prospect of having my own portfolio to showcase my work. I set out wanting to create a very simple website, with an almost “in your face” look to it, in order to grab the audience’s attention, as this was a website in which I had to boast my past and present pieces of work, such as video’s and other media pieces such as magazines, radio clips etc. Whilst giving a small insight into myself rather than be all about me.

I began researching other websites of celebrities and other Media related personnel; this gave me a good starting point, inspiring me to make decisions as simple as whether or not to use a drop down menu on the start page or whether there should be a picture of myself, getting a lot of good ideas from some website templates, I decided early on, I wanted the front page of my website to bet very simple changing my mind from bright colours to black and white, with 1 focal image with links into sections of my website e.g. About me, Links etc.

I found that out of all of the websites I had looked at, David Giles photography had the look I was going for and had a lot of detail in the writing and the circled images, however I thought maybe using the images as a background but with no colour would look a lot better.

I think choosing to continuously using this backdrop on the 4 links however takes away the effect that it has on the home page, if I were to do it again I think using a simple black background would have been a lot more effective as I had to use black text on some parts as the white text didn’t work on certain parts of the backdrop. I also think the experience of creating this website has taught me alot and is a very useful thing to know as a media student.