The concept of my web page is simply different kinds of things you'd find on a finely tuned lawn. I have various decorations, birdhouses/feeders, fancy walkways, and the actual plants themselves.

I took all of my photos at my friends' uncle's house just off of Lincoln. They had a very nice, professionally kept lawn, and it seemed like everyone else did as well.

Anyway, onward to design; I wanted this project to look a tad more on the upscaled side, but still fun and colorful. I took photos and boosted contrast and color information as much as I could before it started to distort them. I wanted to try and push out the colors of fall as much as possible as well.

The basic layout of the website is a right side photo that serves as your link to the home page, and from the home page you can navigate to each page that contains a few photos and a bit of information about what I took photos of. The way I'm going to set it up is when you click your link, the link photo stays in the same exact position but the rest of the page changes, so if you clicked 'Decorations', all of the other photos under 'Decorations would disappear and be replaced with photos of decorations, with text to the right side, and you navigate back to home by simply clicking the Lawn Art heading.

My choices design wise regarding my style involved me thinking about what I personally think is visually simulating--order, black boarders, and bright colors. I wanted to convey contrast because I think that stands out in the reader's minds better. I also tried to increase the visual drama in this site by blurring out backgrounds and feathering edges of photos to force the reader's eye central. I believe this helps because many of the photos are taken near one another and it could be hard otherwise to confuse exactly what I'm trying to show the reader. I used quite a few blending and transparency effects to get the look I wanted, and I think I achieved the look I wanted almost exactly.