The Webby Awards site and the Six Revisions site are incredible resources to reference successful, professional, and downright amazing sites for tips and examples on website design.
The Webby Awards site offers seventy categories for websites, some of which include websites centered upon topics of art, aesthetic visual design, celebrities and fans, health, music, news, personal blogs and websites, sports, and much more. The category that intrigued me most was the “personal blog/websites” category. Under this category, the blog that intrigued me the most was the personal blog titled, “What I made.” Curious, I decided to check out the website, and found a website that was decked out with fun, funky colors and fonts that featured photographs of random cool items that adults have made.
With the website description being “What I made…why being an adult doesn’t mean you can’t play with crayons (an illustrated guide),” this blog’s website design corresponds to its website description as there are illustrations and cartoon drawings in the background. The font too, is something different all the letters are in a 3-D type block lettering. What I really like about this particular blog is that the blog’s theme can be seen through the entire website. From the colors, to the font, to the photographs, everything ties back to the website’s main theme. For my own website, I plan to do the same so that my personal blog’s theme can correspond through all aspects of the blog.
The Six Revisions site is also very beneficial and can ultimately aid me in my English 138 personal hypertext project. This website is amazing because it offers tutorials such as “How to Create a Grunge Web Design Using Photoshop,” and “How to Build a Vibrant Professional HTML5 Web Design.” Through this site, I conveniently have access to tutorials that provide me with clear step-by-step instructions that can help me improve my website’s design as well as the technical aspects of the project. What is also great about using this site is the fact that it also shows pictures of each step so that I have a visual aid to help me when the instructions get complex.
Overall, these two websites are interesting and amazing on their own, but will definitely aid me in inspiring and helping me with improving my project. Looking through the websites, I have already gained some insight into what I should integrate into my project, and have found tips and tricks that I can refer back to, to ultimately aid me in displaying my theme as a whole through my project.