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Making a Website

Hello Everyone and welcome back! As the year comes to a close, I completed a huge undertaking and built an artist website for my portfolio! Being really into computers, I have always wanted to build my own website, and this finally gave me that opportunity. This website was made using Wix, which is a really nice website building tool that doesn't require the user to write any HTML or CSS to build a nice website, however those options are still available.
The first steps I took in building the website was making my "About Me" page. This page would contain my bio and my artist statement. The bio was relatively easy, as writing about my artistic accomplishments was simple since it is all very recent. The artist statement, on the other hand, was a bit tricky to craft. I started with the five words that I thought of when I would think of myself as an artist, and these kind of linked to animation as this is what i would eventually like to do. Those words were: imagination, detail, nature, learning, and teach. Learning and teach went hand-in-hand as I feel that the best way to learn is by teaching others. I think that both my bio and my artist statement turned out really well and I am proud of them.
The next big part of this whole process was figuring out a design for the website. I was messing around with the different options that were available on Wix and just putting them together on the About Me page, until I found something that I really liked. Wix allows one to animate different elements on the page, allowing text or boxes to slide in when the page is loaded. I added these to the text on the about me page and I really liked how clean it made everything look. I also discovered that you can set the background to a video! At first I had it set to a clip of some waves, however this made the text hard to read and made the page a bit too noisy. So I settled on a slow moving background of some triangles that gave the whole page that technology feel.
The most difficult part of this whole process was putting together my portfolio page. This is the page where I put all my the works that I have completed this year. One idea was to make separate pages for all of the different categories of art that I wished to show. But I didn't really like this idea as each page would only have one or two items on them, resulting in an empty feeling page. So I put all of the elements on one page, however this page is very large and requires some scrolling to get to the bottom! But the anchor points make it simple to navigate. In the end, I really like how my website looks, as it has a clean professional feel to it.

jacobschaupp.wixsite.com/simplecube
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