7. Website Idea

For my website, I had the idea of personifying a website.

This website would have a variety of pages. I had the idea of using human problems, to explain certain internetal problems. For example, if a page doesn't load, and causes the internet user to get angry, the website can have a rant about how hard it is operating at full functionality with so much pressure. Things like this will be used to portray the mental and emotional state of this character. I might only just touch on this however.

The character's backstory will also be looked at, and the troubles it has faced in its life. An example of one such trouble, would be how when he was a youngling, he frequently had problems with colour schemes. This was made even harder by the fact that it is completely colour blind. While I might not use this exact example in my final project, the wry style of it will be omnipresent in the website.

Relationships will also be looked at, such as its relationship with different fonts, and the ongoing conflict between said website and Comic Sans MS. This is made especially hard with Comic Sans' constant antagonism and iniquitousness. This also may just be a small part tho.

I was also going to create a facebook fan page for the entity, as well as include a googlemap location page as one of the pages. And use the idea that he is a webpage, and thus is essentially omnipresent. I'll also weave in the GIF way we learnt in class, although I currently I'm not sure of what. I want to play around with GIMP and the GIF idea, to see what I can do with the program before deciding what to do.

In this project, my aim is not to be inherently funny or humorous, but hopefully somewhat wry. This hopefully will be aided by the sullen website, and the idea: 'websites have feelings too'. I am also aiming for a storyline, perhaps ending in the suicide of the website. So it will be black humour, and it will have depression references in it. Which may not be appropriate for some people, but I believe that writing should have no taboo boundaries.

The 'so what' is that hopefully the website will make the viewer open his mind a bit, and the odd nature of the idea will hopefully help this. I also wanted to 'prove' of sorts, that one can have a narrative in a single website, I think I will be able to pull this off really well.

But yes! That's my general idea. There are a lot of parts that I'm still a bit hazy about the specifics of, but I have the idea of what it will be like, and I know the tone. The reason I can't be in detail, is that I will write what flows into mind at the time of writing. The website and written parts will have better fluency and flow this way. That's what I believe anyway......