Perseverance seems to have paid off : )

It has been hard learning to use Squarespace, It’s straightforward getting something close to what you want but the fine tuning has taken an amount of research which fortunately has been possible through it’s own forums etc.. and now having stuck with it I am very happy with the results. I feel it is a clear and concise VLE that is just as I want it with no compromises: ) It is certainly tailored to my students and the subject matter concerned  in our classes. I spoke to my students about things they would like and dislike and as such I have kept it very simple in design, everything the need is there with no extraneous visual clutter. They didn’t want it to be connected to Facebook and Twiter and I also made the decision to not have images on the pages outside of the content. I think in a different situation with different student s maybe you would need to have images all over it to keep them engaged and interested but with the students I work with there stock trade is the image and as such they are constantly engaging with very high quality imagery and as such I wanted this VLE space to on some levels be a gap from that. As visual artists I think they appreciate having a space that is muted in that way as a contrast to what they have in front of them all the rest of the time. They seem to like it anyway.