Identity Project Reflection Journal

           For this identity project I first had to wonder about what identity means to me. That was when I noticed that there were so many different ways people can identify themselves based on: their gender, occupation, personality, or on their background, etc. Everyone mostly in the class was doing their website based on themselves but I wanted to be different, I wanted to create an identity website that everyone/anyone can relate to. I thought that why would someone visit my page, why would they want to know about my identity (they don't even know me or really care) so I tried to attract the viewer with something that they can connect with. I tried to work on my visuals because I know that I am lacking in that aspect so I attempted it by creating the fingerprint and identity image by myself. Every person has their own unique fingerprint so that could add on to their unique identity because not everybody is the same. I put a plain black solid background color because I wanted the website to be simple and to emphasize the content mostly, and black and white are good contrasting colors.

       The animation on the homepage tells us that your identity isn't really based on your appearance but whatever you want to be known as. I used jquery for the animation having it hidden and also fade in. On the background info/Religion page, I put all the continents and when you click on the image of a continent you get an alert box telling you about the culture there and and religion. Also when you hover over the continent name, the image slides down, kind of tried to use the accordion effect there for a previous lab I did. On the personality traits/qualities page, I did some research and found the big 5 personality traits and it seemed interesting so I used it as content by dividing each section up with the use of a table and putting images for visual learners. I also put a link where you can take a test and find out which one you can identify with if you aren't sure about it. Then on my sources page, I put down the copyright of all the images and content that I found online.