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The purpose of the site is to give advice to college students on how they can start their own college traditions. This site isn't as complete as I originally wanted it to be. I would like to add in more subheads and possibly write more about certain topics, reworks some pages, add pictures, change the language to make it more for the web, and reexamine which links are where, and what they are called. I am planning on doing this for my final project. I chose to do a simple design for this site because a lot of other sites that deal with crafting or starting traditions usually include wild and crazy backgrounds with unnecessary links, banners, and icons. In a way, I wanted to take a new approach when it came to this site to make it cleaner, and easier to read. Therefore, the reader can just read what I am writing without being worn down by the extras. I tried to find a site to easily illustrate this but it looks like crafters are becoming better at designing and have gone away from the old days of busy backgrounds. Otherwise, I am experimenting with the color choices because I would ultimately like to find colors that are not so bright as to bring attention away from the words. I tried to do just a plain border around the outside but that wasn't working the way I wanted it. The outside border brought everything together in a way that it sort of looked like a page from a magazine. After I did the basic outline of what I wanted in the site I realized that what I wrote could connect to each other so for a while I had a hard time knowing where to start writing. After I thought about it longer I decided that I if I made the information more specific that I could broaden it out with the links. For example, on community events I told of specific events and then linked out to the other pages like free which linked to stress. I also chose to expose my links with macronavigation rather then embedding them all to at least be easier on myself and the reader. Since much of my phrasing can be related someplace else I tried to do it only when it was most relevant. For example, the holidays page links stressful, and supplies which link to stress and crafts. I however chose not to link to celebrating anything on this page--which I could have--because it seemed unnecessary. It is however, on the navigation bar to the right. Linking was an issue. There are specific categories that most things fit in because of how they fall during the school year. For example, I used Spring Semester, Fall Semester and Summer Break as a way to divide up what I wrote about. However, the linking to stress, crafts, your calendar fit everywhere so I decided to make home the "start" of those pages. This however, may lead the reader to think they should read stress immediately after reading home, which isn't necessarily the case. Originally, I tried putting Spring Semester, Fall Semester, and Summer Break at the top of the page for navigation as home but then it was hard to tell which semester I was writing about. In the end I decided to do the pages like this: Fall Semester > Holidays so the reader can easily tell where they are. The reader of my essay should start at home, then go to the semester they are currently in, and then read stress, crafts, and your calendar as they come up in the pages as embedded links. However, since the navigation is macro and some are embedded they can usually go where ever they want. This is fine, I wrote it so that all the pages can stand alone enough to make sense where ever they choose to go. Stress, Crafts,and Your Calendar are slightly different because they do not have embedded links in the text because these pages contain extra information.
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