Building a Website for Self-Promotion

 This website was built to promote photography and videography services. It will do that based on three key elements—content, portfolio, and overall aesthetic. The content being on the Home page, describing my experience as a photographer in the past few years and what I do, which will build credibility to anyone looking for photography or videography services. The Portfolio section of the website showcases some of my best and most recent work, which visually shows potential clients what I can do for them. And the overall aesthetic of the website is what will draw them into the site and have them keep looking. I chose a fairly bright and vibrant header and overall color scheme, which not only reflects my editing style in my work, but my personality as well. 

The social media projects helped with creating this website. The Wikihow project helped refresh me on the world of coding and writing in java script. It is a very sensitive language and if there is even a space too many or too little, it could mess up the whole layout and function of the website. The Twitter project’s main objective was to teach us how to micro-blog and get a point or message across in the least amount of words, and to say it objectively. What I learned here is reflected in the biography and introduction written in the Home page of the website. 

On the website, there are social media links to several different types of work across all platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Blogger. By using these links, people looking at the website can go to another digital realm that I am present in to not only get to know me a bit as a person, but get to know my work and my style of photography and videography.

Overall, designing the website was very fun and enjoyable. The coding part was a bit frustrating, given that it can be a bit touchy and sensitive, but once it was done it looks great and all components of the site work well together. In the portfolio section, I had to take out the video area and put in more photo slots. As I am not use to reading code language, it was hard to distinguish where the video section started and ended and where to put the photo coding without messing up any other aspect of the site. The most difficult part was selecting which photos to use in my portfolio. For an effective photography portfolio, it needs to have a theme or aesthetic to it to keep people engaged and looking at it, so I had to make sure all of the photos not only displayed the best work I have done, but also display a cohesive look to them all to help viewers understand my style of editing and composition. Creating the header for the site was enjoyable. It needed to be a visual representation of myself, and was fun using one of my own images to create it.