website redo
May. 30th, 2022 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayalaenI’ve wanted to redo my website for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it because the shop takes up so much of my life.
Yesterday I decided I should just start working on it instead of putting it off, get what I can done just so I have SOMETHING.
I want to make it functional for as many people as possible whether they need light or dark background, use screenreaders, etc.
To get some inspiration, I looked at a few websites of famous authors and BNF writers in fandom who had their own sites.
But after looking at those sites, I’m shocked by how bland they are.
Is this a thing? Are they trying to focus on the books? Are book readers other than me easily shocked by colors and movement and interesting things?
Even writers who have blogs are doing this. Even writers who know code. Even writers who have tons of $$$ to throw at web designers.
I wasn’t planning on making something so overly flashy that it wasn’t functional, but should I be backing way off in my plans and just go with a white background, a few boring pics, and simple paragraphs next to them with a bland header and no footer?
No eye candy whatsoever?
Yesterday I decided I should just start working on it instead of putting it off, get what I can done just so I have SOMETHING.
I want to make it functional for as many people as possible whether they need light or dark background, use screenreaders, etc.
To get some inspiration, I looked at a few websites of famous authors and BNF writers in fandom who had their own sites.
But after looking at those sites, I’m shocked by how bland they are.
Is this a thing? Are they trying to focus on the books? Are book readers other than me easily shocked by colors and movement and interesting things?
Even writers who have blogs are doing this. Even writers who know code. Even writers who have tons of $$$ to throw at web designers.
I wasn’t planning on making something so overly flashy that it wasn’t functional, but should I be backing way off in my plans and just go with a white background, a few boring pics, and simple paragraphs next to them with a bland header and no footer?
No eye candy whatsoever?
