designing my own website

firstly i chose this template

because of its simplicity which  will allow me to take more control over it and make it how i want it to look.

firstly i wanted to change the background so i opened up photoshop and decided to create a colourful and bold background using polygons but change the colours of each one making it stand out and overall making my website stand out.

its a really simple technique but an effective one.

I then seen on the website you can add a logo so i decided to go ahead and make my own logo using photoshop again using shapes to create a bold looking logo with the letter K in the centre because my name starts with a K.

how did i create this?
 firstly i created 2 circles and then made one black and one white and overlapped them but the one infront i would lower the scale so it gave this fine circleline

GRAPHICS

i chose the purpl outlining to make my images more clear because so use a background which blends in with the background
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Website templates - what can i change about them? not finished

what i would be able to add to this is maybe in the middle i could center one of my pieces and then i could maybe add my work down the sides which seem to be freely open. i could use the bold text from the center and use it over my piece in the middle so for example into the wild then my picture behind it. i would have bright colors and modern shapes added to compliment my work and center it. i will use big bold lettering. the images i could include will be creative and colorful ones.

i picked this out because already they have integrated an area especially for a video to be placed so this template will make me save time when inserting one of my own clips into the web template. i see there is alot of white back ground i could use again the use of modern colored shapes and around the clip overlapping and basically the same as before this time i could create a collage instead with the use of bright colours to cover the white areas. then i could use bold and dark lettering to really stand out on the bright background. a bright and colourful site i think would attract a lot of young teenagers because it will be urban looking.

what i liked about this is the box around the center which is centering the lettering in the middle and i also liked how the bird overlaps the box but still looks like its holding on to the box and its small detail like that i like to add into my work even if it goes unnoticed. I would change is the top part with the logo and the writing i would change that into a white colour to make it stand out more and i would bring it over to the right because the logo is over lapping with he leaf in the top left and doesn't look at neat and clear than it could. the audience for this would be maybe for people middle aged i know this because if it was aimed at a younger audience it would be more eye catching and more appealing to that age group.