The document summarizes the design choices made for the author's tumblr blog. Some key points: 1) The author chose a simple yet engaging layout that was easy to navigate without being boring, based on reviewing other tumblr sites. 2) A simple font was selected for readability within the space constraints. 3) The original theme was modified to add pages and archives and improve readability of text and images. 4) Images used were mostly the author's own photos to make the content original.

1. Originality &
Creativity
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2. Why was my site set up the way it is?
• Before setting up my ‘tumblr’ site, I had look at several other
‘tumblr’ blogs. I had come across some very simple themes
and some very complicated themes.
• Some blogs needed me to click on certain things to see the
content, or the navigation page, which was quite confusing, an
example is the one of slide 3.
• But some were very simple, that I found their blog quite
boring and was not interested to stay very long. An example
is on slide 4.

4. This theme was so simple,
that it did not even have a
menu page, or an about
page. So, from looking at
other blogs, I had to make
sure my blog was simple yet
not to boring and easy to
access.

5. Why did I choose the layout for my
web page?
• The layout was simple and easy to access and use.
• The theme and colors that I changed made it eye catching
and attractive.
• I did not use wix.com as my web page address, because my
computer had a problem accessing wix, and it would not
work, so I had to resign to using a site called ‘tumblr’.

6. Why did I choose the font that I chose?
• The font I chose was ‘arial’, and I chose this font because
every is familiar with this font but not as familiar with it as
e.g, Times New Roman, which could bore some people.
• I wanted to choose something different, like ‘courier new’ or
‘impact’ , but due to the lack of space and the limit on the
size of writing; being too small would take effort to read and
the font being too big would be a pain to read as well.

7. Why did I change the theme from the
original?
• The theme I downloaded was very very simple, with no extra pages
and no archives and ‘css’. I had to watch several tutorials in order to
figure out how to add and change ‘html’s.
• This was the example of the theme before I had changed it. The
captions would not show up on the photos, and the writing was so
small, I had to strain to read it.
• I then changed the theme to add pages, which is in the advanced
column and added a ‘about’ page and a ‘archive’ page. Also, I
removed the profile photo that was viewed before.
• The before and after picture is on the next slide.

10. Why did I choose a certain image?
• The images that are on my blog, were mostly my photos, that
I had taken over the course of the year and a few old photos
as the festivals were not yet to come.
• I wanted to use my own photos, so I could be more original
in my website. The photos were edited to become sharper
and clearer, to attract the audience to keep going on my site.
• For example, the photo in the corner, was taken off the
internet, but edited, so I would not have problems with
copyrights.