Websites
are a crucial entity of completing a comprehensive portfolio in the world of
graphics, art and promotion. Learning how to build a website is important if
you wish to move on in the world of any type of marketing, public relations or
advertising. My website will be used to promote myself by showing examples of
my work over my time here at school. Furthermore, it gives insight into my
talents and a small background into my life as an individual. Using this website
to promote myself will give employers something else to look at besides résumé.
This website allows someone wishing to hire me to put a face to a name which is
very important in the process of looking for a job. Once more, it allows
employers to access any professional social media sites that give more insight
into the qualities you can provide.
Designing this website was interesting. Knowing
how design a website has always been a passion. For myself it is possible to
figure out what toe do when it concerns the other aspects of the creative
suite. However, when it came to designing websites I was falling show. Of
course we did not build the website from the ground up. We merely made a few
clicks, something that would take you all of five minutes. For us, changing a
few characters and connecting a few folders is not what it takes to build a
website. However, it began to show the amount of work and time that has to go
into building any website. Writing ‘code’ is completely out of my realm and
even beginning to learn how to write code takes years and years of experience.
The moral of the story is that building this
website without the help or foundation of the website or code. Without a step-by-step
guide to inputting all of the information it would have been almost impossible.
When we began to put words into place and pictures where they belong it began
to come along. It was fun watching all of the work come together with a couple
little clicks and switches. There were a few challenges. If you remove one piece
of coding it can ruin the entire thing and if you are not that experienced in
working with Dream Weaver it makes it more complicated than it would be for
someone that may be very skilled in the program.
Nevertheless, it was a great opportunity
working with Dream Weaver. Even learning the littlest amount of working with a
website programs helps with future sites. It was difficult in wrapping your
head around the fact that one step could break the entire site. But it shows
how important it is organizing files in the right spot. Working with websites
is probably the most difficult program to use and entire classes are dedicated
to learning how to work them. But in all creating a small but useful website
will stay with us.
