jr1777@txstate.edu

Over one year ago, a Texas State student named Faith Pendleton flew back to America on a plane from Africa. The trip had changed her life. How that trip is still changing her life is still in the works. Since returning from Africa Faith has lost over 100 pounds and has dedicated her life to a healthy lifestyle. Not so that she can gain anybody’s approval, she does it because she believes in self-respect. She wanted to turn her life around so she took matters into her own hands. Now she is doing all kinds of things in the local fitness world. She writes a very popular blog called FitFaith and is planning a 5k with Texas Health and Racquet Club to help other people achieve life goals as well. Faith’s courage goes far beyond the initial decision to lose weight. She chose to believe in herself, in hopes it would help others believe in themselves too.

I will be making a website celebrating The Art of Food. I will discuss new recipes, favorite foods and different food cultures. I will also include pictures of lots of food!

delicious food

I chose this topic because food is very special to me. Not just because we eat it and it is delicious. But I really believe food can have a stronger impact on people than we give it credit for. Food is art and to make it is to be an artist. Food brings people together, it comforts, it reminds us of a memorable time in our lives.

The pages I will include for this project are:

Recipes

Editor’s Choice

Foods of the World

Seasonal Foods

This hobby doesn’t necessarily have a color scheme so I will be picking one.

I think a website that has done a really good job of organization and design that I would like my website to resemble is Yummly.

Really the only website that I ever visit, other than social media, is ESPN. It is the easiest way to keep up with what is going on in the world of sports even though a lot of things that are posted on the site are biased. Still, it is just a website for games and sports so for me it is just fun and entertainment.

The title page of the ESPN website

When first visiting the website, everything that is ‘above the digital fold’ so to speak is very neat and sleek looking as I would expect from a sports page. It is also very organized and detailed as Americans love their stat lines and numbers on everything sports. To Americans, sports is a science and ESPN does a good job of making this science seem cool. Upon scrolling down the cool, red background fades into a white and stays white the entire way down the page. Actually, it is like this on every page of the website. This to me seems almost lazy. I think I would enjoy something more edgy and eye catching to continue down the length of the page instead of just being a top of the page attention-grabber.

The bottom of the page of the ESPN website is white

I do like how organized all the links are and clearly defined, so navigation throughout the site is relatively easy. However, on the main page there is usually a scrolling list of video thumbnails which I would consider the “main headlines” of the site and when I click on these videos it takes me to a different page. Most of the time the video that I click on is not the story that will be playing. It is some other story from “college football” or whatever it was that I tried to watch and this seems very odd to me from a news source.

All in all though the thing that always drives me back to the site is content. I don’t care too much about it being super flashy or anything like that. I care that the site is easy to navigate so I can find out about the sports that I am looking for. On the whole the content and sports entertainment coverage of the site is unparalleled anywhere else on the web.