With the free website builder it is easier than ever to make your own website that is creative and meets your needs. If you are an artist or photographer you may want a website that highlights your work and talents. If you are a writer you need a website to post some of your works for potential clients and editors view or you may want to publish a story or novel online for free to get your work out in the world and build a portfolio.
Tips for Artist Websites
As an artist you will want to highlight your work. You can do this by adding a gallery to your site. Galleries can be customized to have many different effects and styles. You may want to have a slide show of your work or use the photo album option to let visitors flip through your work. Another choice is to use the matrix effect so that visitors can see all of your works in thumbnail version and then click onto the ones they want to further explore. All of the galleries have animation and transition effects that you can choose. For example if you choose a slideshow you can have the different slides appear to fade in and out, flip, revolve and many other cool ways to change the pictures. Each page can have its own gallery and you can adjust the background colors and special effects of each component. You can even have mini pages within each page to make your website deep and interesting.
Tips for Authors
Whether you write poetry, short stories, articles or have the next great American novel building up inside of you, you can get word out on the internet with a free website you build on your own. Like all of the templates available you can have many pages and mini pages to add to your site. If you are working on a short story or novel you might want to consider making each page a chapter or your work. You can add a text box with a scroll bar that enables your readers to scroll within the text box as opposed to having to scroll the whole page up and down to read your writing.
The text boxes can be customized with your choice of background and text colors and your choice of fonts. Remember to keep our main text easy to read with simple fonts. Fancy fonts are hard to read and frustrating if they are used in a large amount. It is okay to use a fancier font for your main headings or chapter titles, but remember to keep your reader’s eyes in consideration and keep your main text plain and simple. Also consider the color of the background and text. Do not have a bright background with a strong contrasting text color. This will be hard to read and cause your reader’s eyes to become fatigued.
General Tips for Creative Websites
Be aware of the colors you use for your website. Keep them to a maximum of three to keep your website from looking too complex and messy. You can use contrasting colors or varying shades of the same color for interest but keep the number of different colors to a minimum. Keep your website easy to navigate and to use. This is easy with the templates because they are all designed to be easy to use. Make sure all of the links in your site work and lead to the correct page or section of your site. You may want to add music to your site.
