Website Reflection

Designing a Website 

Our final in e-Comm was to design a website that displays our projects and our personal information. This process was very tedious but the end product looked very good. During this project we had to learn how to use dreamweaver, edit code, and use styles within a website.

The Process

Before the website could even be created at bare bone we had to extract the style sheet, gif files, and dreamweaver code in order to start the project. After we had done this we began to work on the project. The first part of the website is a picture of me and my elevator pitch on the front page. Next we had to create the project page. The project page was very tedious to create since I had to add all the links and gifs in the website and I also had to put the video code within the code of the website. Putting all of the information of the projects was just a matter of copying and pasting which was the easiest part of the project.

Time Consumer  

This project was the longest I have ever made in e-Comm and this is because of the fact that were starting from scratch and we only had a couple of things to work with. My in class time was very much a wildcard since dreamweaver is such a weird and new program to me, one day I just flew by the steps and the next I needed lots of help.

Challenges 

I had encountered some challenges throughout the project. The first issue I faced was the style sheet. When I had gone into the server to get all the information for the website the styles sheet wasn't there so I had some assistance and got it back. Another challenge I had to handle was locating my files and code within dreamweaver. When I had to log on the next it was like a scavenge hunt  looking for my files that weren't in dreamweaver and this was because I had not saved to the server for some reason.

What I learned 

I learned a great deal from this project about web design and coding. Coding is a very interesting topic for me and I was very intrigued by it. This project let me explore the possibilities of coding and what it is like to code. Throughout this whole year I had learned lots about web design and how to write in a way that is not to formal nor is it to casual.