For this week’s blog post, I chose to view a website created by a group of COPLAC students from the Spring 2017 semester. The class that I was most interested by was “Making Strange: Constructing Identities & Making Sense of Our Surroundings.” The course’s description really drew me in and made me think that I would probably like to learn more about what is considered “strange” and how “strange” is constructed. If you would like to learn more about the class, you can click here for the class overview and links to their project website. After viewing the different projects on the course’s website, I decided to look into the one titled “Strange Video Games and Digital Art.” This site was fun, full of color and beautiful images, and jam packed with information. Unfortunately, I did not give myself enough time to read through the entirety of the project website, but what I did read was truly fascinating with a really nice narration. I also enjoyed that the text fit so well with the images that were chosen! The website itself was broken into categories full of blog posts on each subject they chose to analyze. This structure worked for the site, but having so much information on one page seemed a bit busy and overwhelming for me. I would have liked to see the pages broken down into other pages instead. There were other moments as I was viewing the site that I felt like it was just too busy either because there was so much content on the site or the complexity of images with certain font colors looked like too much was going on. Overall, I really enjoyed this site despite it’s business. It was very informative and aesthetically pleasing.

Something that I really loved about the site was how images were laid out in relation with the text. This made me feel like I should be adding more images to break down my analysis. The amount of content that was provided within the site was also surprising! Although I am working on my own without a partner on my website, I definitely feel like I should be adding just a bit more text and definitely a bit more analysis. I only wish I had more time in my personal life to make all of my ambitous plans come to life on my site. My favorite element of the site was how artistic it was through out. This is something I have been trying to play with on my own website already, but part of me wants to keep adding more artistic elements! As I continue to build my site, I hope to end up with something just as as nice as the “Strange Video Games and Digital Art” one.