General Comments
This project came on the back of my summer project, which was always going to make it difficult for me, because my summer project wasn’t something I did very seriously. I prioritised having fun with it rather than giving any real thought to what it might lead to, and consequently the content I’d produced wasn’t really the same nature of the sort of content that I needed to produce retrospectively. By this I’m particularly referring to the quality of the photographs and the lack of text based research to accompany them.
Successes
Looking back at the project I’m confident and pleased with the fact that I went down the right route with this project in terms of creating a resource, rather than doing something historical or informative. This was due to the nature of the content I’d got from my summer project, and it meant that I didn’t have to devote masses of time to generating more content, which gave me more time to concentrate on work on the site itself.
I’m also very pleased with the final layout and branding of the site. I did quite a lot of development into the layout and grid, and I think it shows, as it does immediately look like a resource that people can add to, which is what the idea was in the first place.
Changes
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to code the website due to being unable to have any more sessions learning to code beyond the introductory session. After attempting to start coding the site myself with a half-basic understanding of HTML, this is something that I feel would’ve presented more problems to me, and would’ve contributed to the project bring much more time-consuming, especially in terms of getting the banner to float over the website.
Like I mentioned earlier, in hindsight I should’ve taken the summer project more seriously in my documentation of it, which would’ve resulted in a more complete website in terms of text, as well as having much nicer and more appropriate. I feel this is something that I appreciate now after the Numiko talk, and their declaration that “content is king”. But other than this there’s nothing else I’d have considered doing differently apart from giving more thought to the colours I was going to use, as I’m still not sure if I’m happy with the caramel colour I used.
Going Forward
This is the first time I’ve ever had a go at creating a website, and I think the experience of having a go at it, as well as the Numiko talk, has given me a much better understanding of the process, as well as now being a bit more knowledgeable on things like SEO. I’m now much more confident that I could be a more web-based designer in the future, and the idea that “content is king” is definitely something that appeals to me.
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