When developing my site, I didnt draw directly from any particular website, but bits and pieces from a few. I liked the concept of www.stumbleupon.com ,  where although the site itself doesn’t have much content, it delivers you to content from many other sources. on top of this, the content ur delivered to can be personalised to your interests, which made me focus on making my website tailored specifically so hungover people would appreciate it more then the average person.

I liked how other sites, such as www.bored.com and tumblr itself (and regrettably facebook, not that i’d usually admit to drawing inspiration from facebook..) delivers the user with heaps of entertaining content (although mostly games) on one scrolling page, so there isn’t an excessive amount of navigation, letting any old zombie be entertained with minimal effort (i believe hungover people are essentially zombies) which is why I restructured the layout of my website.

http://www.pophangover.com/ is another entertainment, however coincidentally has nothing to do with hangovers. It does however cater to a similiar age group than mine does, and it contains a seemingly endless supply of different photos and links to other websites, creating multiple data sources in the one site to keep people mindlessly entertained, which is partly what my site aims to do. I was also inspired by the background styling, being what an actual wall could look like, suggesting its more of a place than jsut a website, which is what i tried to replicate with my bricks :)

i struggled with adding in youtube videos defined with the search “comedy”, which as it turn out was entirely pipe fault and i had been doing the right thing every time i tried -__-. i found this out when randomly without even working on videos, they happened to appear. but i am still having trouble with them showing up consistently, if they dont show, they are still there, yahoo pipes jut doesn’t care about my grade!

i had been struggling for way too long to try and scrape data from a page that contained information for hangovers, for my info section, so i finally changed my approach and am now happier with it :) instead of scraping data from one page (that wasn’t the most suitable for xpath) I used a yahoo pipe to to scrape a bing search for hangover cures and displayed all the results from that in my page, so the user would have a full list of different hangover info that they could navigate to on a different page, and as it was a live feed, the info would always be up to date! now i just need pipes to not stop working..