Reflection

Over the past semester i have thoroughly enjoyed studying the web perspectives. I have never used HTML or CSS before so found these programs fairly challenging at the beginning, but eventually got the hang of it. 

At the beginning of the project i was very stuck on how i was going to design my website and what exactly i wanted it to look like. I did some research of other peoples websites online and found a range of different websites that appealed to me. I then looked at these websites and picked out the different aspects of each one i like and made note of them so i could use them for my site. Unfortunately i thought that a lot of the websites i found were a bit to complex for my HTML and CSS knowledge, but i did think it would be good for me to make a simplified version of the websites I had found.  

Out of all the modules we have studied so far for DMA, i have found web design one of the most challenging. I think that HTML is practically like learning another language. I did find it very stressful and difficult to get hold of, and if there was one symbol wrong, then the site wouldn't work correctly. I do think that i would able able to create another site though as i have learnt a lot about web design this semester. 

I don't think that the website i have created meets my expectations. I think that it is too basic and i should have made the homepage a bit more grasping for the viewer. I also with i had included more coding to make the navigation bar more detailed. I also wish i had managed to include more links and detail on each of the pages, and i think in the portfolio page i should have included a bit of text beneath each of the sections, describing a bit about each product i had created.

I do think that the java-script i used to show my photography worked very well though, i think this was quite a professional aspect of the page, linking each photograph together.  

I am greatly interested with graffiti and street art so thought it would be appropriate for me to include my own graffiti image of my name at the top of each page. I think this image adds a lot to each page and i am glad i included it as the header image of each page.

Overall i think that my website was ok. I think that if i had the time i could have made it a lot better, i think that my website is failry basic but it does manage to cover the brief. Next time i will allow myself more time to include more in my website to make it more aesthetically pleasing. I really enjoyed web perspectives and definitely think it will help me in later life.