James

My reflection 2008

1) What is your favorite part of your final project? Take a screen shot (see next section) and put in on your wiki page near your answer. My favourite part of my final project was the chance that i had to collect all the information i had about the sports that i had participated in during my time in Cairo, and document them in an organised website. Another factor of my website that i enjoyed working on, was putting all the different pictures on because they helped bring life to the site, and show some character within each sport, and also help explain and clarify my participation in the sports. Another factor of my site that i throughly enjoyed was the buttons, because they linked very well and efficiently and the also were very appealing, not over the top, but still caught the eye of the reader



2) What risks did you take in the final project? A risk i took while working on this project was using photos and creating a photo album because unlike the book activities, i needed to bring in my own photos, arrange them correctly, chose the most appropriate ones, and finally upload them all up correctly linked and saved in the correct format. This was a risk because evidently if they were not saved in the correct format, were not placed in tables, inserted as media objects, or linked correctly with the source folder, they would not appear on the web and take away a graphical aspect of the website.

3) Which part of the final project was most challenging for you? How did you meet this challenge? I found that the animated gif was most challenging for me because firstly operating the firework program was at times very frustrating. Firstly the use of layers and the duplication of text and i found difficult because it needed to be done perfectly and with precision because every detail counts on a website. Also exporting the previewed image as an animated gif i found was a gamble because during the classwork activities i had particular trouble with the animation exercises so using an animated gif in my final website was a big but important challenge.

4) How would you improve your final project? I would improve my website by using a greater amount of pictures and possibly making individual photo albums for each tournament of sport, and completing the incomplete pages of Water polo Invitational and Rugby tournament

5) Web Design 1: If you take Web Design 2, what areas of web design would you explore? Though it is very unlikely that i take Web Design 2, if i did, one area i would become interested in would be more sophisticated and detailed layouts and templates, as well as possibly looking into some basic computer programing allowing for better animation and more elaborate and eye-catching forms of slide shows. Web Design 2: Explain your plans for future web design activities. If you have none, explain why not.