8. Website Write-up

I wasn't sure if we had to do a write up for this project. But here is a short one anyway.

Project: My project was a rather abstract one, in which I personified a website. I didn't go very in detail as to how the whole website thing worked, as I thought it would be mostly boring. I did however try to be mildly humorous. I also added depression to give the character depth. This also gave the character a story. The story starts on the front page; the hope is that the viewer will progress left to right in the navigation bar until they get to the last page, which is the end of the story. The story subsequently ends when one clicks the link at the bottom of the page, and gets the conclusion to the story in the error message on the following page.

Tools used: I created the website from scratch, using the website creation skills I learnt in Writing for Web. I also incorporated Google maps into the project, it was a simple use, but that's because it wasn't very warranted. I included a twitter feed on most the pages; I created this twitter, and tweeted for this task. Facebook was also used in this project. I created a Facebook group page for the websites 'cause', that people could join if they wanted to support him to keep on living.

I also used the generators for this project. I created two graphs using the graph generator located on the ICanHazCheezburger website shown in class. It was hard to create graphs that I thought would fit in nicely. Maybe I failed? But I wanted them to be mildly humorous on their own at least. I also created banners in photoshop, there's a few different ones, with different numbers on them, as well as a different background (although the background is in the same style), these banners is one way that each page is different from the next.

I used the program (GIMP) shown in class to create a long .gif artwork, with the idea it's what my character created. This was very tedious to do, I think it was about 150 frames all up. I made objects grow and colour in gradually, in the hopes it would sort of simulate drawing. I think that worked well. It was however a large file, and it seem to slow down dramatically at the end if it's not completely loaded yet. On the second viewing it is fine though.

I also used symbols, and some other slight progressive mistakes to tell the story. I added some subtle errors in the page, like an extra bracket at the end of one of the pages, and used a lot of ellipses on the final page.

End idea: I'm actually quite proud of the writing in some areas of the page. I think it's quite humorous. But I'm weird, and so's my writing. Not all will like it. I also felt right to add a warning at the front of the page. This introduced the idea of the website, as well as warned the viewer on the content of the webpage. I felt it right to do so as the website contains black themes, and some black humour. Plus I didn't want to upset people, or be insensitive about the dark issue of depression. I do however believe that art has no bounds. So I went with the depression idea, but thought it was at least humanly to warn people about it before they delve into the site.


And that, is my site. :) Hope you like it!