Project 25 A web gallery

I've been running a blog to accompany the work of this module.  I find blogging is a good way of charting my progress as I can type faster than I can write with a pen.  As I'm a trained typist (although sometimes I find it difficult to believe with some of the spelling mistakes I make) I can type almost as fast as my brain can compose stuff.

I've also mentioned in the past that I run a WordPress blog for the photographic club where I'm programme secretary and you can see that at www.lymebayphotographicclub.org .

Whilst I taught IT and communications whilst I worked full time at Guildford College of Further Education I also dabbled in web design but hadn't touched it in the last couple of years.  Over the past few weeks I've read about people asking advice on which blog site to use and as I have blogs in both Blogger and WordPress, I thought I would try a new blog site for my personal work to see how I got on.  To this end I've started up a new blog at Weebly which I am finding fairly simple as there are some template to guide you and page design elements where you can add your own ideas easily.  

My new personal Weebly blog can be found at: http://jenniferhollands.weebly.com/

Weebly register screen

I think before you start creating pages left, right and centre you need to give some thought as to what you want in your personal sales tool.  Most websites have an opening page, something about the website owner/photographer, then some other pages on different types of pictures that the photographer specialised in.  

In my situation I feel that I would like a Home page, an About Me page, then separate pages for my Landscapes, Portraits and Digital Art work.  That makes a total of five pages to start with.  Weebly allows you to have Text only pages, Text with a picture and Picture Galleries just by clicking and dragging into each separate page.  There are choices where you have a film strip at the top and larger images below or just a gallery of 2 or 3 images wide and as many down as you require.  If you've worked with blogs or websites before, Weebly is one of the more simple sites to work with.  I've also decided to add a Comments box to allow people to let me know what they think.