Visual Research

For my visual research I decided to go through the websites of the major contemporary art venues that will be presented on my website. I also took inspirations from the websites I already included in my web design and web content research. Overall, my aim was to see how a website about art is using text and images to achieve its goal. Being honest with myself, I do not think I will be able to create a website even remotely close to the ones I really liked, but it is to be expected. After all, this is my first attempt  to do anything like this. 






I also spent considerable amount of time looking at this collection of artist's website - 45 Examples of Stunning Artist's websites

My main focus was to see how information is presented in an engaging way, but still not to the expense of the visual and interactive qualities of the website. I think this is where I decided how my navigation bar will look like but for the rest... Inspecting the code of those websites, I think for the first time I realised how complicated it is for a good website to be created! The reality is that HTML and CSS offer almost endless possibilities of what you can do, and I am glad I dedicated time to learn those, at least to start learning. Once you know the tools you are working with, you can use them to the maximum of what they have to offer. I am already thinking how I will use everything I learn on this project to make a website in the future. The one I will do now will follow my learning progress. But I would love to continue building on that, and knowing myself I definitely see myself  doing this again! Just for fun and to continue practicing these new skills.

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