Today marks the end of our website making module.
I started out the module knowing nothing about HTML and now I have broadened my horizons and now know about several aspects to HTML designing. I can successfully construct a website with simple coding, style sheets, tables and div tags.
In the end we decided to make our website using div tags which made it easier to place images and text in a position that we had previously designed. We did try using tables after it was suggested to us as it used less code but we found that we all knew exactly what the code was for and where it was on the page so we shouldn't change it and confuse ourselves. I think it worked out better, mainly because we all knew exactly what code was used for certain bits of the website.
I feel my contribution to the project was good, in the beginning I spent a week just making different designs to present to the team on the Thursday. One of these ideas was taken and developed by opinions that the whole team made. The project was a whole team effort as we were able to bounce ideas of each other and improve on other people's ideas, especially for the home page. As for the coding, we found using online tutorials and practising different ways of using it. The practise was definitely beneficial and perfected our website more.
My favourite part of the project has to be designing my individual pages, I had a lot of ideas that I wanted to use but settled on a train ticket as it was something completely individual to me and different to the other pages on the website. This will make it stand out to the viewers and hopefully make them remember my pages and the information on it! The worst part of the project was implementing the coding and figuring out how to solve problems that it caused. Although this felt satisfying in the end, it was a big pain and made me feel like I was never going to fix it and my links were just not going to work!
When creating the printed artefact, I took into consideration the main theme running through our websites, tube maps. This is why I have created my leaflet based around the idea of a map using a tube map with our page names and other groups body parts on it. I wrote a bio where the key is just to introduce people to the leaflet and let them know about the information I was going to discuss. I think it was a big risk putting most of the main information on the back but in a way it's nice because it isn't too in your face and people can read it without feeling forced to.
Overall, I have enjoyed the work I have done and am sad that it is over, I also feel like in the module I have learnt the most out of all the modules.
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