PROCESS

First, the development of the theme took place, as stated before, while watching a preview for the movie, Sweeney Todd.

Once the theme was decided upon, the search for images and inspirations of how to make a bloody website took place. Immediately, the image found in the top corners of the page popped out and became the central basis for the project and made an excellent background.

Once hours were spent creating the background desired in Fireworks (which consisted of cutting apart the picture and chopping into certain sections in order to obtain the jagged nature and positioning the elements correctly), the rest proved simple.

Next, there was a need for bullet points. A bloody web page needs special bullet points in order to convey its spine-shivering nature. A dagger image was found on stock.xchang and proved to be the perfect image. Again, Fireworks allowed me to manipulate the image, shrinking it down and adding red ‘blood’ to the edge of the knife. Then the image was coded into the document to make the bullet points.

Little by little, the entire site came together. Blood drops were extracted from the original title and edited in Fireworks to add color and crop size and added into the background. The border found between the requirements and the sidebar was created in Fireworks as well and coded in as the background for the requirements.

Adding each of these elements required a great deal of trial and error to code. Once one was in the perfect position, the other would have a problem. It became extremely frustrating, but ultimately once the entire project was coded, I was very pleased with the outcome.

CONCLUSION

The entire web page was not what I had originally viewed doing. Initially, I thought I would use a photography or film theme throughout my page, but that immediately changed. I have always had a somewhat dark nature when it comes to aesthetics (which is obvious from my love of Tim Burton films). Ultimately this project not only provides the opportunity for utilizing skill with CSS and learning to code, it allows the author to express themselves in a way that they might not have even thought they would (even if it does take a great deal of time).