Web Design

Since the christmas holidays ive been teaching myself css and html. I did this partly to keep my brain creatively active but also out of curiosity. Web Design is something that really interests me. Not just the ability to create a site. But in a art and design perspective. I see the similarities between the likes of a website and the Flash project we were given.
Although my flash didnt come out so well, one thing i really grasped and was interested by was the interactivity.
Like websites, the flash project was a case of form must follow function. This is a tightrope that all designers must walk when creating something with a form of interactivity.
Unlike a gig poster or an advert, where if it looks good people will approve, if a website looks good but is hard to use, complicated and frustrating; people simply wont like it, regardless of how good it looks, which results in losing returning visitors and custom.
Infact in many cases the most successful of websites are very simple but are very well structured, for instance Ebay or Amazon and the BBC website.
This shows how the interactivity for the user is more important than how it looks.
For a designer, this provides huge opportunities to explore the area of interactivity. Therefore a designers website might be a little less obvious and well structured, but will in turn be much more interactive.

As a result ive produced my own website. At the moment it is a simple 2 grid css website. But as two pieces of code that i have written which successfully makes this a functioning website, i am pleased with myself.
I intend to make constant changes to this website. It is not so much an advertisement to myself as an open ended investigation into web design and a great chance for me to gain experience in handling various web languages.

My website can be found here.

I want to carry on experimenting with my website as a form of understanding the interactivity of text and image and layout with users.