Website

Finalising my website



I have now purchased my website, so that it is now up and running for anyone across the internet to view. As appose to paying for a monthly plan for my website which was an option by Wix who are my website provider, I chose to pay for 1 years usage. The only reason I would have been drawn toward a monthly plan for paying for my website would be if I was not able to afford to pay a lump sum up front. Fortunately I am in the position currently where I can afford to pay for my website and I know I will defiantly want the use of at least a year from this site. The site cost me a total of £61.88 for a WIX, premium plan. I chose the premium plan despite it being slightly more expensive than other plans because the advantage to this is that I am able to connect my own domain name, e.g 'elle-cain.com', As the cheaper plans do not allow this meaning the word 'Wix' would be a part of the domain as well as some other promotional factors promoting 'wix' as a website provider would appear on my site such as advertisements in the form of a strip across your website. 

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 The last stage I had to complete on my website was the 'About me' or 'Bio' page. I've checked over all the final touches on my site for example checking everything was in place where I would like it to be and most importantly checking the punctuation and grammar are correct, as swell as making sure the fonts and colours used on my site all match each page and match the style used on my business cards. As discussed in a previous post I feel it is very important that everything I produce in order to promote myself follow the same colour schemes and fonts.




Connecting Domain names

 I own two domain names which are 'ellecain.co.uk' and 'elle-cain.com' I purchased both domain names as I wanted to make sure I had the option to be able to use a '.com' or '.co.uk' domain. For this website I am currently using the domain 'elle-cain.com'. Unfortunately the domain I ideally would have liked would have been 'ellecain.com' however this domain was taken, resulting in having to purchase my domain with a '-' in-between my forename and surname. I wanted to use a domain '.com' as this domain is more widely recognised and noticed in the world of the web. 


Home Page

I chose a simple layout for all pages. I used the font 'Georgia' which is the same font I used on my business cards. I've used some images on my home page which are not listed on any particular page on my site. These are images which I am proud to show as some of my best images however they rant my usual documentary style photography as they are more landscape images. Some of these images are also taken on my phone, so I didn't want to fully showcase them on their own page on my website as viewers can easily access more images in this style on my 'tumblr' and 'Instagram' pages which are linked on my 'Contact' page of my site. 


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