Final Post: My Experience Making a Website

The website was one of the projects that made me worry quite a bit on what it will be like to work on it. Once it was went over in the class however, I started to think that I might have a chance of doing this after all. I'm still a little worried if I made it to be just right though, but that might just be plain old paranoia. Moving on, I made my website having the three necessary pages, the bio, the portfolio, and the contact page. I did not have any other contact sites that could be considered "Professional", so I decided to stick with just the blogger website, phone number, and email for contact. Since I'm aiming to get into the film business, I felt an image of the Hollywood sign would work best for my website. For using the website for promoting myself, since I want to get into film, I would need to emphasize the fact that this website is dedicated to the television and film medium of media. As the website is now, the only parts of it that shows off the dedication to film is the Hollywood image, some pieces of my bio, and my logo business card. While I do not have the appropriate portfolio that showcases that I want to get into film, they could still be used to help showcase some of the skills I possess. The resume is used in the obvious manner of showcasing my information and skills. When time passes I can always replace it with a new resume with more information, and can continue the process every time new information about myself is available. With the other projects in my portfolio I would able to showcase my experience using the adobe programs, Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. When it came to actually designing the website itself, it was rather easy and hard at the same time. We did not get to use much of the Adobe Dreamweaver in this class, so when it was time to start the website we decided to use our remaining class times to work on the project together. When I compare Dreamweaver to the other Adobe programs we have used for this class, I can say without a doubt that Dreamweaver is a lot more advanced than the others; or at the very least takes much more knowledge and experience to utilize. When it came to building or putting together the website, since we had the majority of the necessities needed for putting it together, It was more easy than it would have been if we started from scratch. When we started bringing in the files we needed for the website, we did so many things to set them up for the project; including changing the files to the proper format a couple of times and linking the files to right things they needed to be linked to. The most troubling part of this project was the information on the side of the editing page that contained the data of the pages and it's contents. The information page was rather detailed and large, it made me feel uneasy when I learned that I had to use this page to complete the website. Overall, my experience with making this website was very enlightening, and I it makes me feel rather good that I was able to put this up, with assistance from my class.