In Part 3 I downloaded the Elementor Plug-In in order to help in building the visual elements of my website. The first step is to go to Pages and add new, these will be all the different pages on your site, create them and name them.
Next you edit the blank templates on each page made for you by the theme you chose. I chose to edit each page using the Elementor Plug-In.
Elementor works with your theme to give you a few different areas on the template that you can edit, "live areas" where you can type your own text, add images, videos or other types of media, my theme provides a template which gives you live areas at the top left for the website title, the right hand side for menus, a subtitle and a list of boxes in the main body area for each pages content.
When you select a live area the Elementor side panel lists many options for what sort of media you want to create in that space. For my menus on the top right, I created Menu Buttons, and linked each button to the URL of my different pages that I created earlier, this allows the viewer to navigate easily to each section of my website, with a menu that always remains at the top of the site.
To create the sliding images on my homepage I clicked the live area and dragged the Slide Carousel widget onto it, the menu on the left is where you upload the images you want to be in that Slide Carousel and you can also add text and toggle things like the sliding speed, the size etc
I used Slide Carousel's for the Work section of my website too, so viewers can scroll through the different sections of my work, and click on them to enlarge.
I was considering having titles and information next to each piece of work as well but after looking at other artists websites for research I didn't see many that had that, many just having titles/materials/size and leaving descriptions of the themes and ideas for whole projects as opposed to each separate piece. I figured long bits of writing about my process could be left for my blog or other social media. Examples of websites for painter Robert Fawcett and multimedia artist Susan Stockwell.
For the Blog menu on my website, I linked the URL of my Blogger page to the button on my website, so clicking on that menu on my website will take you directly to my blog
Back on my website, clicking on the Contact menu at the top of the page will take you to my contact page which is a simple list including my email, my Patreon (a service that allows fans to donate money to you in order to support your creative practice) and a list of my social media accounts
Clicking CV will take you to a page where there is a small amount of information about me, initially, when I made my first website on Wix I had a button that would let you download a PDF of my actual CV, but I learned afterwards that an artist CV is different to a regular CV, and in almost all cases in my research, Artists simply had a short description about them self, then a list of places they have worked professionally in the art industry, and where they have exhibited, so I did this on my CV page.
Next you edit the blank templates on each page made for you by the theme you chose. I chose to edit each page using the Elementor Plug-In.
Elementor works with your theme to give you a few different areas on the template that you can edit, "live areas" where you can type your own text, add images, videos or other types of media, my theme provides a template which gives you live areas at the top left for the website title, the right hand side for menus, a subtitle and a list of boxes in the main body area for each pages content.
When you select a live area the Elementor side panel lists many options for what sort of media you want to create in that space. For my menus on the top right, I created Menu Buttons, and linked each button to the URL of my different pages that I created earlier, this allows the viewer to navigate easily to each section of my website, with a menu that always remains at the top of the site.
I used Slide Carousel's for the Work section of my website too, so viewers can scroll through the different sections of my work, and click on them to enlarge.
I was considering having titles and information next to each piece of work as well but after looking at other artists websites for research I didn't see many that had that, many just having titles/materials/size and leaving descriptions of the themes and ideas for whole projects as opposed to each separate piece. I figured long bits of writing about my process could be left for my blog or other social media. Examples of websites for painter Robert Fawcett and multimedia artist Susan Stockwell.
For the Blog menu on my website, I linked the URL of my Blogger page to the button on my website, so clicking on that menu on my website will take you directly to my blog
Back on my website, clicking on the Contact menu at the top of the page will take you to my contact page which is a simple list including my email, my Patreon (a service that allows fans to donate money to you in order to support your creative practice) and a list of my social media accounts
Clicking CV will take you to a page where there is a small amount of information about me, initially, when I made my first website on Wix I had a button that would let you download a PDF of my actual CV, but I learned afterwards that an artist CV is different to a regular CV, and in almost all cases in my research, Artists simply had a short description about them self, then a list of places they have worked professionally in the art industry, and where they have exhibited, so I did this on my CV page.
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