Rationale for Networked Media Production Project A

My online exhibition focuses primarily on the top ten players in the English Premier League that best contribute to their teams. I used a black background to draw attention to the content, I tried other colours, I even tried to incorporate grid elements for the background, but because I wanted most of the attention to be drawn to the videos and image gallery, I found the black background to be most effective. The headers are red and the text for the paragraphs are yellow because they stand out the best with a black background. The letters 'EPL' are automatically recognised by football fanatics all around the world as the 'English Premier League', and I decided to keep it that way to encourage those who are unfamiliar with those three letters to learn and be apart of the culture of football, the EPL being a perfect place to start. The three letters are blue because the EPL official logo and the EPL official website are both very blue. The layout of the page was all accomplished with html, and I styled it with css using Dreamweaver on a Mac computer.

The size of my collection is pretty large, and scrolls pretty far down the page. So Ben helped me with putting the list of the ten players just under the main description at the top of the page. I linked each name using the 'a href' tag with the"#player's name" so that when you click on it, it directs you straight to the player on the page.

The main elements of the web page are of course the videos and images. I used an API to feed directly to the flickr site by using yahoo pipes. After the pipe saved, I chose 'run pipe', then 'get as badge' and embedded the code into my html for an image gallery for each player. The images were chosen for me by flickr, some photos are unrelated to the player but are still related to football. Most images are of the player which is what I intended. For the videos I chose each one carefully as I only wanted one for each player. I achieved this by embedding the code from youtube into my html as that is where each video is from, and I feel that each video describes the player perfectly. I used the 'div' tag with a new id for the title of each player, I did this because I wanted to create a background for the title that relates to the player, but I didn't find it very effective so I decided to leave that idea out. For each section, the player's name is linked to the Premier League website that has detailed information for each player, again I used 'a href' tag then the player name and the link from the premier league site.

There are many sites that relate to football in general, but all of the sites that I have visited mainly discusses recent results for games as well as highlights on each result. It seems that if you want to compare players you just go on youtube and watch compilations for favourite players. Top ten lists are in other websites, but don't really detail on each player let alone have an image gallery and a video. So I felt that creating this web page will not only give people an indication of the top ten players to look out for, but also get to know them on my website. The main idea for my web page is to introduce the English Premier League (as a starting point) to those unfamiliar with the sport, and what better way to introduce them than showing them the top ten players. I also feel that people who are familiar with football will enjoy my web page even though there are always going to be people out there that disagree with who should be in the top ten. With this in mind I stated that the list can change based on player performance, so for people that are not seeing their favourite players on the list, better hope their players perform well to get on the list.