Creating a Website: Art & Photography

 Today I am starting to make my website on Wix.  This will be in my 'progression' route art and photography. 

I began by choosing a website template that I thought would work in structure for my work.  

I changed the navigation(menu) bar and customised this by clicking on the bar and then clicking on the design icon changed the font size, changed it it bold and chose the font I would use throughout the website.  I then went to 'manage menu' and I clicked on the Home page and in the drop down box I clicked on 'show on menu'.  

I then changed the position of the title and subtitle by using the move tool and dragged this to the Header so that i could be seen on each page.  I then double clicked on the title and changed the font to 'Palatino Linotype' at 74pts.  I also made this bold.  The subtitle was in the same font at 46pts.

I then centred all the text and the navigation bar - I may change this later depending on how my design looks when I have added the image. 

I then uploaded my own image onto the site files.  I did this by clicking on 'image' and 'upload image'.  I then went to teh site files and edited it so I had a black and white copy in case I decide to use a black and white image on my home page.

I then right clicked on the background and changed the background image from my site files.  I then went o the header and changed the colour on the header by clicking on 'change' background' and colour and I chose an appropriate colour from the color palette. 

I went to the footer and changed ten colour to match the header by right clicking and then clicking on 'change background' and 'colour'  I then used the colour that had saved from the colour palette.  I then clicked on the copyright text and changed to my name and edited the font to Palatino Linotype and the correct year.  

I have saved all my changed by clicking on the save button in the right hand top corner and then I have previewed the site to check all ages are working and everything is appearing correctly.  There was an issue with my footer not appearing on each page so I right clicked on the footer and went to the 'show on all pages' button'.  Once this was completed I saved again and then previewed for a final check.  

I will be continuing to post my progress on creating my website through the term. 

While I was thinking about how to improve my homepage I added a quotation by Susan Sontag which I think compliments my work that I intend to put on here.

I am now going to look and edit my mobile view. I will start with my homepage.  This is how it looks when I started

I edited the image in the Wix editor to create a portrait image.  I the tried to add this as background by changing the background and there were issues with this so I will come back to the image.

I changed the header items by going into the left hand side menu and checked through the buttons and settings to check everything was where it should be and nothing was hidden.  I then clicked on the text and adjusted the alignment and adjusted the size and positioning to ensure that the text was correct on the header which will show on each page. 

I then saved and previewed this to check that it worked correctly. I then found a work around the image problem by just adding the image over the top and then rearranging the positioning of the writing by right clicking and clicking on 'arrange' and bring to front' in the drop down box. 

I will see if I can find a better solution to this but for now this is okay.