designing my own website.

Having wanting to build my website from scratch I first needed to look at how other artist had displayed their own work.

My main influence is bitmap dreams.

 main page

 artwork page

 another type of page she does
She is very heavily targeting a femminine crowd with the softer colours, creating interest with the book shape, the header is animated and creates a lot of interest even though it could be largely considered older looking and its navigation could be a little clunky.

This gives the main display of her website, we can start to break down how it is structured

 Main navigation from page to page

How work is displayed and how things are integrated throughout her portfolio.
Overall everything is correctly sized and clear, however it is very large, having to expand my window from websites that are usually fine on regular social media.

Other websites i looked at:

Kyle Sun

While Kyle sun's portfolio looks very impressive it has it's own faults, it's layout it very inventive though and full of small animations

 Having drop down menus is a nice idea however:

 In actual display it is a overlay with the background animations still moving that distracts from the art, while in preview the pixels are constrained but in larger viewing it's blurry and has seemed to be blown up in html.

 Drop down menus change size depending on how big the window is, while this can be good this can also result in thumbnails being way too small.

the biggest example of this is how i had to decrease my window to the links.
making sure everything is properly sized and doesn't shift too much within the window is very important.

It's important to keep in mind how websites will look in all window sizes.
Most social media websites minimally are around 1000px
my Portfolio is around 900px

Kicked in teeth was made with my business card mind as I wanted it to be cohesive with some part of my branding. So i tried to use the same kind of retro aesthetics, and a similar pastel colour scheme.

The overall aesthetic of the website compliments my work well, it is a format that many people can understand and it reflects well with other work i have done.

This is the breakdown of how the website works
 Navigation, is a straight line through my portfolio, and I have a home button on every page

 my portfolio pages have concise descriptions, though i feel that the way that bitmap dreams was laid out allowed social media to be more easily shared through more direct links than just opening up a profile.

Unfortunately i did not have time to create a mobile version of the website however here is a mock up of what it would look like.

My domain name is kickedinteeth.com, i bought it though 123 reg. I chose to go with a .com just due to it being more likely taken due to my brand name.
(website not working? Try the backup website. 123 reg have failed to update me on changing policy and have terminated my domain name usage at this current writing i have sorted it out, but yet to get my domain back.)