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Website Critique Response

      In the last meeting of my Graphic Design 2 class, the website's each of the students had produced were shown and suggestions were given on how these could be improved. As I expected, there were many suggestions about how my site could be improved. The most necessary of the suggestions was about the chosen color style of my site. I had chosen a light blue background for each page on my site, however this color proved to be quite distracting from the actual content of the site. It followed that the other colors on this site did not quite allow for easy viewing of my content. Such as the header backgrounds that I had chosen, which where a lighter blue. These created large horizontal lines across the page that broke up my content, but were too obtrusive for their own good. These obtrusive lines were not the only issue with most of my pages, as the margins for each of the pages was slightly different. This is a big issue as the minor inconsistencies from page to page can prove very distracting. Finally, I really needed to add a title to the overall website, such as putting my name in the menu as a header for the site as a whole.
       In the most recent form of my site, I attempted to address all of these suggestions. I have changed the color style of my page to one that follows more muted tones and uses less color overall. By reserving color for sections on the page that are most important, this results in a less cluttered page. I also allowed for more space between elements on my about and contact pages that gives the content with text more breathing room between the images on those pages. I also fixed the size of the text on my menu, making the text bigger with more space between each link, making navigating the site much easier. Finally, I added my name to the menu bar so that visitors would actually know what artist's site they are viewing. 
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