Evaluation of Website Design

In this unit, I created a website from scratch, and followed a tutorial for another website. Overall, I was not too excited when I learnt that we would be doing website design. I knew that I would find it difficult as I do not understand Dreamweaver or general scripting very well.

Regardless, I did the tutorial fairly quickly and thought "well, it can't be that bad then", but how wrong was I? Shortly after doing this tutorial I had forgotten most of what I had done in said tutorial, so it felt as if I had not really done it at all.

After that, I designed the final web page which I would be basing the website on. I created at least 6 different sketches based on popular sites and taking elements of other sites. I decided on 2 of those which I thought were best and made more detailed versions of them. With these, I decided on the best and imported it to Photoshop. I then used the 960gs template to make it the perfect template for my website. Using this, I was ready to start with Dreamweaver.

However, as I had forgotten what I learned from the tutorial, I decided to re-do that tutorial. It went even quicker this time as it came back to me as I was doing it, so this was not a waste of time. Using what I learned there, I started on the final website, but unfortunately I did not have much time left to submit the website so I added backgrounds and placed boxes, text and the logo, but I didn't have time to add hyperlinks. If I were given the chance to do this again, I would pay more attention to the lessons, the tutorial and any practice, and I would make sure that I did the designing at home as I did it in college this time, which wasted too much time.

So overall I am not too happy, as I felt I ran out of time, but for how long I had, I feel I gave it a good attempt.