Update on my website

In relation to the influence of the Theatre arts in my practice, 

As emphasised in my previous posts about building a website, I stressed how I wanted my website to relate to a theatre experience experience. I felt like moonfruit limited me with its simplicity. Therefore, I started to enquire among my peers to what website builders they'd been using and Squarespace and 4ormat seemed to be the most popular. I was immediately taken by 4ormat for its extensive options for slideshow pages. The option to have images on a large scale on the screen really appealed to me, as it certainly gave more a 'performance' than a page full of thumbnails.

As you can see in the above images, I focused on a clean white white space to avoid distraction from the images themselves. I toyed with the idea of having a black background to created a darkened space similar to that in a theatre or cinema. However, it became evident that dark backgrounds can often deter visitors to your websites and at the moment i'd rather attract people to my site than focus too much on a concept. That could be introduced later on.

Since moving over to 4ormat, I have decided to split my work into categories by technique rather than by project. This is because it occurred to me that once I start getting more involved in various projects, the navigational bar will get far too busy and ugly to look at. Instead, each category has a drop down menu that reveals projects related to each technique. 

I have been a little difficulty with the size of my logo on the website. Due to its slim header, I am only able to have the logo fairly small. This is particularly difficult as my name is within my logo and obviously this needs to legible for the visitor to the website, especially if they've come across your website by chance. As a solution, I decided to edit the original logo composition on photoshop increasing the size of the type. Now, even though it is small, my name can be read with ease. STRESS OVER.

Another website quorum has been getting my domain name to work. I have purchased both emmasears.co.uk and emmasears.com, however the only one that works is emmasears.co.uk and thats only becuase it redirects to emmasears.4ormat.com. I don't mind this at the moment, but without trying to sound selfish, I don't want visitors to my website to be distracted by the website builder name. I have since contacted the 4ormat help team and received back the following email....

Hopefully this means that it will get fixed soon!!!