Beginning with Webnode

Beginning the design process with Webnode was relatively simple. Webnode offered me the choice of a URL pertaining to the name of the website. “the-picturehouse.webnode” seemed the easiest as both “thepicturehouse.webnode” and “picturehouse.webnode” were both unavailable at the time.

I made the choice to design off a template, and after playing around with a few, I eventually settled on the “darkviolet” template. I was however, impressed with the wide variety of free templates to choose from.

I chose this template, mainly because of it’s dark nature synonymous with a theatre, it’s old style Willaim Morris wallpaper homepage for it’s likeness to the old style theatre I wish to portray and its simple layout and serif font choices (although, both of which I know are customisable henceforth.)

The contrast of simplicity and age not only reflect the direction in which I believe Web 2.0 and HTML5 are taking the web currently in websites such as Vox Media, Medium, or others, but also show clearly a good design of a clash of the ages. Old style cinema with new style independent films, and whilst due to the remit I could not create a nice parallax style website, as close as I could get is what I have gone for.

Finally, after finding a good image of old Aberystwyth free to use and modify, I added some film reel borders in Pixlr and imported it to the home page for one of the final touches.

To complete the Homepage all but the links to the rest of the website, I added a brief description and directions for the website. I also added contact details, (the address translated to Welsh for 1 Sunset Strip, Hollywood Boulevard, SY23 BFI for British Film Institute and the phone number the one used for Ghostbusters, "Who you gonna call?"). I also created an email and Twitter handle for the site, both using the free to use and modify picture of Adolph Zukor, notable Paramount film magnate of the early 1900’s.