Creating a Website: Contact Page, Social Media & Copyright

 Today we discussed legal and ethical issues with our presence online and also copyright issues.  On my website I have now changed my copyright to my own name and this year which I will update yearly

My next was to add a contact form, so I did this andlined up with my navigation bar and just changed the page background. 

I then changed the setting on my form by clicking on settings and this opened the contact form dashboard.  I then checked the settings and I ensured that all the boxes were required fields and I added a Submission message.  I then saved all my changes and then previewed.

I then went to 'setting' button over the form and then I went to 'design' in the dialog box.  I then changed all the fonts in each field, title and button to Palantino Linotype.  I then went through and changed the colour of the background, the field boxes, the text in all areas included the hover and regular text. 

I finalised my contact page by adding a title and message - I did this by clicking on add in the left hand tools menu and then text and I dragged in a heading and small parargraph.  I then just wrote my text and changed the font again to Paklantino Linotype and just adjusted the size.  I then used the Wix gridlines to centre the text.  Lastly, I added an image, for the moment I used a copyright free image from Unsplash.  I then quickly edited the image in Wix Image Editor, I simply went to filters and then mellow so it was a soft black and white so it matched my website. I then saved my website and just previewed to check it looked as I wanted. 

I am happy with the result for the moment and my form is set up and I will test this when I UX test the site when it is Live. 

I am going to now add the social media icons so that my audience can connect with my work.  I clicked on the 'Add' button in the left hand menu and then clicked on 'Social' and chose a social media icon bar and dragged it into the header.

My next step was to click on the social media bar in the header and then in the dialog box I clicked on 'add icons' in the right hand top corner.  I then added Blogger, YouTube and Linkedin and added live links. I then saved and previewed to check these work correctly.  I also changed the size of the icons once I had completed this by clicking on 'layout' over the icon bar and so they were 68pts and 14pts spacing.

I finally checked all links were working and the social links were ready for publication.