Web Site Design
Why do I write web sites as a hobby? Writing a web site can be an artform, and from time to time you stumble across a site that just captures your attention. Colours is such a site. The design of this site is exquisite. It’s an archive of stories (fixated, so it seems upon the sexual, but that’s not the point). The integration of music with the stories, the colour scheme, design elements in full screen mode are nothing short of exquisite. It’s something to aspire too. At least, it makes me go,”I want to design a pretentious [well, it is!] site like that one day.” And it’s just one of the web site “styles” I want to try.
Like it or not, web site design is an artform. When textual content, graphical elements, layout, motion, interactivity and sound are all integrated masterly, that site is destined to be acclaimed. I must be scaring you now :). I guess most don’t appreciate good web site design until they try their hand at making a good site. It’s time-consuming, stressful, technical, but the end result can be as satisfying as finishing any other work of art (a painting or a novel or a poem, for instance). And most of it is self-taught. I’m not talking about the people who make casual “here are pictures of my family, pets and friends” personal pages. Those are stuck on the web and remain there static. I’m talking about people who design sites. Those that experiment with new facets of design; who undergo layout changes every month (or week); who bother to read up about browser compatibility issues and catering for differing screen resolutions (except 640×480 – screw them :). Hmm… this post ended up saying something totally different from what I intended. Well, if you made it this far, you might appreciate that site I linked above a bit more.
If you don’t know anything about web sites, click “view source” at an appropriate site and see the stuff people had to write to create that site.
2:54am (GMT +10.00) tomorrow 
