Site-Seeing Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Wroblewski

In chapter 5 Wroblewski talks about 'look and feel' and getting and developing a 'personality' for the site.

1. Describe your portfolio site's look, feel, and personality.
R. The look is very simple and clean, not over crowded. It is meant to look user friendly, and it is also designed to work that way. Everything is well organized and structured. The page is supposed to feel sophisticated and modern, that may speak to both young and older crowds. My intention is to demonstrate my skills through the page design itself.

2. Describe your site's color usage and the reasoning behind the choices. Consider warms, cools, and complementary colors.
R. The use of color is minimal, limiting to the use of gray, black, and hot pink. The use of no color (white) plays an important role giving high contrast between values and adding to clean and sophisticated look I was shooting for.

3. List the fonts you use, and your reasoning behind the choices.
R. I use Helvetica neue and Helvetica throughout my Web page, even for body text. Even though a serif font is more commonly used for body text, I find that Helvetica, a sans serif, is comfortable to read. The body text isn’t heavily extensive, and the font structure has a balance that doesn’t make it hard on the eyes. Having a sans serif for me was important to add more to the modern look I was looking for.