Editing The Blog

As a group we all agreed we wanted to make our blog as appealing and pleasing to the eye as possible but still simple while fitting in with the theme of the reason behind it which is media, film and thriller.

Originally it started of very dull, bold and boring, with black background and white text and automatically we set about changing it and basically reversed it with plain black text and a slightly grainy white and black background. Soon it became apparent we wanted a film based background and set about searching for the perfect style and sized one. After messing about with fonts and layouts we left the blog looking like this...

Despite really liking the way it was set out, centred, and vertically repeated the black text was unreadable in the dark areas but too light in others to have a pale colour so we had to resolve this. Trying to keep it in a theme still we decided on a grey scale colour code using black and white and therefore we changed the background image into black and white but the edges were still too bold and we therefore had to crop and cut the photos edges.

This was the original image.

This was way to dark for black text.

The edges when repeated didn't match up very well.

This was the final image we used.

After sorting the background out, we set out experimenting with the layout as we felt it would look the most effective all centred. We also took out the 'about NFGSsirius' part and kept the blog archive but moved it to the top. We did this in order to centre the whole of the blog easier. This also was helpful when fitting in larger photos into text posts. From doing all this our blog therefore ended up looking like this...

The image below shows where the image repeats and it is less obvious than the original one and only apparent when it is pointed out.

We then set about changing the title to make the our blog more unique and eye catching, by creating a potential title in photoshop, we then had to make sure it was the right size and had a suitable background to suit the page.

Overall we are all pleased with the way our blog looks for now.