Thursday, 3 March 2016

Evaluation


For our project we were told that we had to create a website and this would consist of  creating an account on Wix.com and then choosing the template under designer portfolio options that you think will compliment your work the most. Blog  all design options considered and why you settled upon your final template while including screenshots. The next step is to select the best of the work you have produced on the course this year, this must include a minimum of 5 Photographs, 5 Graphic pieces produced with either Photoshop or Illustrator and 2 video production pieces and then i began designing and uploading to the Photography, graphic and video production sections of my website. I then blogged (Upload screen shots and annotate) details of my work for the session.

I'll start by reviewing a student in my classes work and I'd say that he did an overall good job at designing the website but there's a few points that I think he should take from this because I think he should have his website all one coloured text as it doesn't look very appealing and also maybe tidy some stuff up on his site like where his buttons are placed etc so it looks clean. Other than that though I think his website is pretty good!

The second persons website is interesting as its set out like mine but I think that he could of set it up a little bit better with the header of his site. I think the picture for the header could of been a little bit better and the text maybe a little more professional. Also as you can see in the screenshots provided the person has spelt "graphics" wrong which makes it look just a little less professional.
My website was supposed to showcase my best work of the year and I think that having a column for "photography", "video and film" and "graphics" then showcasing my best work in that and also then having my inspirations there as well so I think that my website definitely fits the purpose.

There was quite a few issues with my web design as I wanted it to look like when you click on the website that you have a selection of the links right in front of you where you could click and "go into them" in the middle of the screen but obviously the templates weren't like that so I ended up having to settle for the design which I have now. Overall I'm happy with how my website looks and acts as I would say it's professional and smart and that's the way I wanted it to come across.

To improve my website I would say that I could make the text a different colour because I've had people say to me that on some parts of my website its quite hard to distinguish the texts. Here is the screenshot of what the person said so you can see for yourself: