Critical Research Journal

For the dissemination of my final images onto website platform I continued using SquareSpace. The orignal template was changed to Avenue, I preferred the layout with the menu being at the top. I kept the design simple as I’m not too great with website design. The website opens with a landing page that displays my name and title, with a background graphic that I took from an airfield site map. The enter button takes you to the introduction where the project descriptor and map of NI are there.

www.lauraframe.com landing page for my website Laura Wing

menus that feature on website Laura Wing

The menu navigates to 4 options introduction, the images, PDF for the book (get the book) and contact/acknowledgments. There are 32 images displayed in a carousel format, minimal captions are used, just structure name and location are shown when mouse is hovered over image. The ‘get the book’ menu has a drop down for a link to the pdf of the book, I am still deciding if I will also include an option to buy the book but to upgrade the website would in occur a cost that I would have to put on the sale of the book. I am encouraging audiences to download the book because it contains colour coded aircraft that relate to map, image and extended captions, wanting it to act as a guide as well as photographic body of work. I couldn’t find a way to keep the PDF for the book within Squarespace, I also read that this was not possible and that I should use another hosting website such as ISSUU. To continue with a streamlined presence on the World Wide Web I opted to use a website that already have an account with, WordPress for this CRJ. I can easily upload PDF files to this platform and then be downloaded and viewed on adobe acrobat (for best resolution), at might I add, at no additional cost. I just needed to link this menu with the wordpress file and it was good to go.

Carousel of images that feature on website Laura Wing

All in all I am pretty happy with the website, it’s simple but projects my message and imagery effectively. Before starting this degree I had never put together a website before, so it has been a big learning curve but skills that are so important when displaying your work and putting it out in the public domain.