To create my website I have used both a specialist software and a free online software. I
used Dreamweaver the specialist software to create an online photo gallery and a
Wix a free online software to create a clothes website. Wix is a website building
platform online. I feel that Wix is a really good website when it comes to
creating a website because it offers alot such as layouts/templates, links to
social media, sub menus, fonts and more.
It allows you to see a preview of the website before you post it online
and more. A disadvantage to the site is that its slow, it has a image limit to
the size of the image you put in, your not allowed to stretch your image and
more. Dreamweaver is a a proprietary web
development application. Dreamweaver offers a lot as well. One disadvantage with
dreamweaver is that its complicated to understand where everything is, to use
you must understand a bit about it, you can't place your images anywhere and
more.
The issues I faced
whilst I was trying to create my website was things like the website program
not loading, not be able to make website look how I wanted I to, my photo gallery not showing up on the browser and more.
I found it kind of easy to find primary resources
because I feel that by having a big family I could just ask them any time I
wanted and what I wanted them to wear. All I did was I asked them to stand on a
plain wall and pose while I took the image. One thing I did find hard though
was taking photos of my little sister because she wouldnt stop moving around.
Another thing I did was I created diffrent T-shirts by finding a T-shirt
outline, slogans and an image to go with it then I placed it all togther. Another thing I found challenging was when it
came to using Dreamweaver to create my
photo gallery I found it hard to deal with file sizes & image sizes.
I did use a bit of coding when I was making my
photo gallery on Dreamweaver all I did
was I copied the same code 2 times. I could understand a bit of it like
when I wrote inside the div tag I could kind of understand it.
Overall I did produce interactive web pages which
weren't that creative but where really functional.
If I was to do this again I would have my time
better planned out. Also I would have prepared the stuff for my website before
making it such as the images, the designs and more therefor I wouldn't have to
keeping or deleting pages because I have nothing that can go there. Another
thing that I would have done is more research, more experimenting with dreamweaver, being more orgainsed and
more.
Another thing I found hard about this project was
following some of the tutorials because I would usually miss apart by acdient
which would mean I would have to start again and more.
If I had more time I would revisit this because
although it was difcult using Dreamweaver I think it was really intersting to
see how websites designers work. Also I think that it could really benfit people
like me knowing how to make a website incase I want to get my work out there.
Yes I would like to revisit web-design next year.
