For our second blog post, our class was to create a sample archive home page for our archive of "The Tempest" as performed by the Nashville Shakespeare Foundation this Fall of 2019. I struggled greatly with the actual creation of this image. Creating the "logo" (it really isn't much of a logo) proved incredibly difficult to me just because of the nit-pickiness of Adobe Photoshop and my unsteady hands. Placing this logo into my document on InDesign by Adobe was even more difficult.
This all being said, I know that the image I have created as a sample homepage is not the best I could have made. However, considering this is my first time working independently with Photoshop and InDesign, I am fairly proud of the coherence of my page. I didn’t want drastic contrast on my homepage as I wanted to appeal to a classic, more traditionalist audience. Shakespeare is very much a classic playwright and I wanted my page to reflect his work. I kept the page a calming blue which contrasts the entire concept of shipwreck that drives the play. I also highlighted the shipwreck in my logo as my logo is an image of shipwreck by Willem Van De Velde (II) (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-1848). I aligned the navigation bar directly below the title of the homepage so that it was easy to find when first entering the page. I wanted the purpose and functions of the page to be clear, so by placing the different navigation options front and center, the page is that much more accessible and convenient. I made the title of the page white while the navigation bar options are black so that those two did contrast with one another. If I were to change anything, I would consider altering the color of the introductory text I placed next to the photo on my home screen (courtesy of Dr. Yeo’s class). Doing this would separate that text from the navigation bar, making the navigation bar itself stand out more.
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Friedman
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Noah Shackelford
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AuthorHello! My name is KD and I am a Junior at Belmont University. I have created this blog for my Digital Literacy class. Archives
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