Website Development

This month we have begun working on our websites in a workshop on Fridays with Rick. We began by purchasing our domain names, I chose Godaddy.com, and i selected the domain www.jadehindley.co.uk as I thought it sounded professional due to the Website research I conducted last term. We also chose our host websites, mine being cargocollective.com, and so I sent out a request to participate in the site which was accepted. So far I have browsed the templates, also going off the research I did where I found that for new illustrators it is best to have a really clean and easy to navigate layout, and selected a simple white background. Rick has also shown me how to create separate projects, with buttons to allow the viewer to move through each project quickly before selecting the next project. I think this tool allows my website to have the same functionality that I admired in Michelle Thompson's, with the portfolio style to it. I have chosen a header which reflects my work well in my opinion, as it is an image with the hand drawn pattern background, messy-styled black line, and a teacup which I drew with knives around the edge to provide narrative and meaning to it. In the future I think I will make my website look more individual, but for now my mantra is the plainer the better and let the work speak for itself.