R E D E S I G N I N G . T H E . P A G E .

These are the websites that inspired the redesign of my webpage, “The Lesson: 8 in the Making.” The first one was simple inspiration which convinced me to stick with the same format for the entire website, rather than overcomplicating things and changing every page. The second link that inspired me is a picture from the website called, “10 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration.” While it is only a simple picture of a duck, the site describes that the picture is one that has been put into perspective. This got me thinking that I should relate the overall theme to the website to some sort of animal that had to do with the Japanese culture. Eventually, the background picture became centered around just the culture piece of Japan rather than the animal. The next piece of inspiration I used also came from the website, “10 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration,” which told tells the readers to gain inspiration from favorite books from when we were little. So, in the process of reminiscing on old books I read as a child, I started thinking of movies I’d obsessed over in the past. I began looking up my favorite movies and analyzed the fonts that were used as titles in movies to see how the designers took simple fonts and crafted them in ways where people wouldn’t recognize them. The next link forced me to keep my webpage simple. I originally attempted at making my web page full of pictures and quotes, attempting to make it as busy as possible. I then found myself scrambling to find more and more objects to make the page seem busier but in the end, I found that simplicity was the key factor. The last website I used that influenced my site was one that got me thinking about linking The Washington Shotokan Association’s Facebook page to the website. I figured it would be a good way to promote the school as well as giving my viewers a chance to get to know the sport a little better.

Aside from specific websites that sparked my inspiration for changing a few things on my website, there are other formatting decisions I made when redesigning my site a second time. One thing I did was change the navigation bar on the right-hand side of the page from having eleven topics to choose from to only five. My reasoning behind doing this was to keep it simple; I didn't want to overwhelm my page's viewers by giving them a ton of options so instead, I put the other six on the bottom of each page so that they're still easily accessable, but spread out so that one part of the page isn't too cluttered.

To add more to the website, I added pictures of Shotokan karate from online search engines including Google. Almost every page has a picture of something that has to do with my experience with this martial art whether it's sparring or the Dojo Creed, there is a picture for something to give my viewers visuals that go hand in hand with what they're reading on this website.

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