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My Favorite Website

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Pinterest is my absolute favorite website that I regularly visit.   It has a clean and functional format.   The design is in line with the purpose of the website, which is to create a platform for creative minds to share and exchange ideas.   The pictures that take up your personalized home page are centered in rows.   The white background creates contrast between each of the pictures that represents a new idea.   The search bar is easy to find at the top of the page with tabs to the right that take you to a new page.   Each new page has the pictures centered and type in grey which creates repetition so that the viewer never gets confused, there is also a red “p” logo at the top left on every page.   This red “p” will send you to the home page if you click on it which is a great interactive feature.   The proximity between the rows of pictures creates enough white space to separate the different ideas, while still allowing for the eyes to sea...
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How I made my blog look better

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I started my blog off with a basic theme that caught my attention because it had my favorite color and I liked the layout.   Whenever I went back to look at it, the theme didn’t seem to entice me as much.   This blog follows the four basic rules of design: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.   I changed the colors a little to create more contrast and to be more easy on the eyes.   The original theme had bright colors and looked busy, I decided to stick to white and grey with a pop of purple to create contrast.   I made sure to keep the blog post grey, the background and the main title white and the links purple.   This continuity of color across the entire blog creates repetition.   The text is aligned to the left and the picture is centered in order to create space between the blog post, date, and body.   The four entities are space appropriately to each other in order to ensure the reader can tell the d...
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