Friday, 24 August 2018

Landings 2018 - showcasing work

Landings is an online event so I had to come up with a way to showcase my work. Having a dire experience in trying to set something up in wordpress in module 1, the first idea that came to my mind was to set up a blog. Then I decided that a blog would not look right alongside the work of all other colleagues who had taken a lot of time to think over their ideas and select the best one. I had to work quickly since I was late already so I resorted to something I am comfortable with.

Since these days I had to do a lot on my personal website and the Culture Crossroads project site, my first idea was to create one for Landings, too. Building a webiste once you have an idea what you want to do is quite easy and here is the way that site look like now. I wanted something plain and easy to navigate.

This is how the home page looks like and the link to the site is below.

https://bistrastoimenova.wixsite.com/landings2018

The downside of having to use the free version of a website builder is that the site has no mobile version and there are ads displayed at the top of the page. That was quite the unpleasant surprise but since all my sites are done with this same website builder, I would probably buy a subscription plan at a later stage (and that would remove the ads from all sites). 

Another thing I did to showcase my work was to share the exhibition materials all over my social media platforms so that people know it is there. I also shared the website link. Another strategy I plan to use is to share each image from the exhibition and the story behind it. That takes a bit more time, however, so I'll do this one at a time (hoping to attract more people even after the exhibition is over).  

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