{"id":22,"date":"2024-09-15T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2024-09-15T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T16:54:55","slug":"thinking-about-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/thinking-about-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When thinking about the future theming of my blog, I want to emphasize function and fun rather than focusing on purely sleek design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mockup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mockup.png 1000w, https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mockup-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mockup-768x500.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my initial concept. It&#8217;s pretty similar to what I have right now. I want to make the background darker, and I want to keep the green theming as much as I can (it&#8217;s my favorite color). I want to modify the theme so that the outlines of the header and the blog posts are green, as well, as opposed to just floating there. I think it&#8217;ll give it a bit more of a techy\/neon aesthetic, and as I said, I&#8217;m approaching this from the lens of &#8220;this is a website, might as well make it cool&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I know it&#8217;s a bit tacky, but I want to keep the scrolling news thing. I think it&#8217;s goofy but I like it when sites have &#8220;functions&#8221;, and I find a scrolling news thing to be a lot of fun from a tactile perspective. I&#8217;m making a website that doubles as a portfolio, not a glorified slideshow. I&#8217;d like to make the Something&#8217;s Brewing&#8230; text black, if I can figure that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for images I&#8217;ll need to create&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ll need a header. I was thinking a simple gradient header with some sort of grid pattern on it. Something reminiscent of old Wii graphics, which is an aesthetic I like to pay homage to a lot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ll want to make (or find) custom icons for my widgets. For example, a special magnifying glass for search. I can make these myself, or I can find these on Canva.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A loudspeaker icon for the blog section would look cool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possibly the biggest undertaking is making a unique logo and\/or favicon to appear on the tabs list. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I want to have the favicon have my initials in some sort of stylistic manner. The problem is that there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overwatch_2\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overwatch_2\">popular first person shooter whose icon is also a combination of O and W. <\/a> So I&#8217;ll need to innovate in a way that sets me apart from Blizzard&#8217;s iconography.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As for a full logo&#8230;. I might just sign my name. I have Clip Studio Paint and it has a cool calligraphy pen. I could also just type my name in the Continuum font, which is, for all intents and purposes, the Wii font.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of fonts, I&#8217;m thinking about the fonts I want to include.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;d like to find an all-caps &#8220;LED text&#8221; font for the news scrolling to make it more closely resemble a physical scrolling LED light thingamajig. I&#8217;m not sure what those are called, but we have a business building here on campus with those sort of lights displaying the stock market, and I&#8217;d like it to resemble that, just for a twinge of flashy skeuomorphism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Otherwise, I do like the font we have now. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m realizing I probably should also have an image of myself on the page somewhere, but I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;d include. I&#8217;ll need to get a professional picture taken at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to think about regarding visual design for a website, so I&#8217;ll be iterating on these concepts as I plan things out more fully. But this should outline a pretty basic direction I intend for my website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking about the future theming of my blog, I want to emphasize function and fun rather than focusing on purely sleek design. Here&#8217;s my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgst101.owenwheeler.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}