Week 1A: My Template
I knew when choosing a theme I wanted something dark. Something that would be easy to look at for extended periods of time. I often spend hours sitting on the computer making websites and doing school projects so dark mode is a life saver for my eyes. I use a lot of adobe's Dreamweaver and Photoshop and am so glad the two both have dark mode, I couldn't imagine using the programs without it. So for this blog I wanted it to be no different, dark mode it is.
As a web development major I've learned about design principles and usability of websites. For my theme, above all else, I wanted to make sure my text had good readability. To do this I went through a checklist. Theme has high contrast between the text and its background, check. Theme has appropriate line-height for better legibility, check. Theme has a fair amount of letter-spacing so the letters don't look squished together, check. Theme doesn't have too long of a line-length, check. Lastly the theme has a helvetica looking font, check.
Lastly I wanted everything to be very minimal and modern and allow any pictures to bring most of the color to the page. For the template I chose the Soho theme, and then customized the fonts, font colors, background colors, and removed the background image.
As a web development major I've learned about design principles and usability of websites. For my theme, above all else, I wanted to make sure my text had good readability. To do this I went through a checklist. Theme has high contrast between the text and its background, check. Theme has appropriate line-height for better legibility, check. Theme has a fair amount of letter-spacing so the letters don't look squished together, check. Theme doesn't have too long of a line-length, check. Lastly the theme has a helvetica looking font, check.
Lastly I wanted everything to be very minimal and modern and allow any pictures to bring most of the color to the page. For the template I chose the Soho theme, and then customized the fonts, font colors, background colors, and removed the background image.
Wow! You really sound like you know what you're talking about. Well I suppose you would if you are majoring in web development. After reading what you wrote about how "dark mode" is easier on your eyes, I can totally understand it. I don't feel as if my eyes are straining in any way when I look at your blog. It's rather comfortable to be honest. Now when I flip back and look at my blog, my eyes are almost hurting, lol. Thanks for your post, I definitely learned something from you!
ReplyDeleteYou clearly have a lot of experience with the technology involved in social media. I have to say I'm jealous. Your blog is definitely easy to look at and aesthetically pleasing. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future, and learning from and about you.
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ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed this post man! Not only did I get great insight into the background of your theme choice, I also learned a thing or two along the way! Loved the simple, readable visual of the site, which goes hand-in-hand with your equally digestible writing style. Also, I'm a sucker for Flume, so I enjoyed the images as well.
Keep sharing that expertise with us – can't wait to see more of your content!
I just learned it my web design class that a darn background is easier on the eyes, and I never knew that. This really does draw you in too. Great choice!
ReplyDeleteI think everything you planned out seems to work great! I am definetly going to start using dark mode now more often because I think you are totally right how that helps not have some a bright light in your face all the time. You really put thought and effort to this and I think it looks awesome. I love the black background with that picture in front of it too I think it is super pleasing to the eye. Great job!
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