My first job was working in a scrapbook store where I was able to be creative and design cards, scrapbooks, and more, so I was excited when I learned about our personal hypertext project. When I read the directions, however, I started to panic a bit. Although I have scrapbooking and card-making abilities, I have very little experience in the webpage design business. Probably the most I ever did in the way of designing a webpage was personalizing my MySpace, which consisted of copying and pasting codes that set up my layout.
Luckily, Six Revolutions, a website set as a portal of information for web developers has come up with a list for aspiring and beginner web designers such as myself. In her article 10 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration, Kayla Knight discusses several ways to be inspired when designing a webpage: (1) Different Eras, (2) Nature, (3) The City, (4) The Mall, (5) The Library, (6) Magazines, (7) Business Cards, (8) Music and Album Covers, (9) High-Speed Photography, and (10) Away From it All.
Of the 10 places Knight discusses, I can relate most to be inspired by a different era, particularly for my personal hypertext. For my hypertext, I am discussing how my grandpa and grandma met, which was in the middle of World War 2. My grandpa was actually a Japanese internee at Tule Lake. There is a lot of art surrounding internment and World War 2 and I hope to find inspiration from the style of the 1940s.
