another "sketch"

So I have started trying to figure out what the first page of my website is going to look like. I have these two ideas, but am not entirely happy with either one of them. I am having trouble because I have never really done anything like this before as far as making something so design oriented, besides the newspaper add/ logo project. Generally I approach my work very intuitively. I look for a long time at what is already there and think about what needs to be where. I also get totally absorbed in my work; if I am working on a painting I’ll hang it on the wall and live with it and smell it and see it all the time. So my work is present when it means something to me, and making a website is a whole different thing. A website is so far away physically that I can’t hold on to it long enough to really care and I can’t feel it, and it is kind of scary because I’m not used to it.
So I guess I need to just get over it and probably do a lot more sketches. After two days in class talking about dream weaver I think that is going to be kind of a lot of stuff to learn so I want to keep it simple. I feel like I am going to approach this like I did the logo thing and follow that kick designer’s example and make a list and then do lots of different design and then pick one. Trying to approach this like my other work doesn’t feel right because every mark makes history in the real world, and history is sort of essential for me, but in the digital world it’s just colored light and that is pretty cool to just different so I need to think differently.