Louis Loveless Artistic Practice Blog

In order to decide how I wanted my website to look I researched some of the websites of my tutors who are practicing artists in their own right. Below is Michael Pinsky's website: Name top left, horizontal menu top right with links to about, projects, films, books, resources, news and contact. Large photograph of work on homepage, scrolling photos of latest projects. Susan Stockwell's website: Large photo of work on homepage filling the whole screen with name overlaid top right, and horizontal menu top left. Clicking on the "work" option in the horizontal menu takes you to a page full of photos to past works in chronological order. When clicking on one of the photos in the list you are taken to a page dedicated to the piece with a small description of each piece and where it was exhibited. Clicking on "exhibitions" you are taken to a list of Stockwell's exhibition ordered most recent to oldest, a thumbnail, title and short bit...

The first stage of making my website was to buy a domain name, I bought it a couple years ago because I noticed another person using the name Louis Loveless was gaining popularity on Instagram and was probably going to buy a domain for it at some point. I wanted my real name, and .co.uk so that viewers will know I'm based in the UK. The company that was offering it to me for the cheapest was 1&1 (since has changed its name to IONOS) Next I had to purchase some space on the internet, known as Cloud Hosting, the website that offered the best deal was TSO Hosting. This costs monthly, and so does the domain name, so to simplify things, and to reduce the cost slightly I transferred my domain from the first provider 1&1 to the provider of my hosting space TSO Hosting. I had to authorise the move with 1&1 first, starting the move, and was given the authorisation code which I typed into the domain transfer page on TSO Host. Now my domain and cloud hosting space ...