Website Reflection

This website will be used to promote myself by showcasing my work and making my best projects easily viewable.  As someone who wants to go into public relations and advertising, having examples of my writing, lesson plans, and professional use of social media is important to potential clients and/or employers.  Employers who are see this website will get an idea of the kind of student I am as well as the style of my writing. It is also impressive to be able to say to an employer that they can check out your website in an interview.  The biography gives companies and potential employers a taste of the candidate they are looking at. The social media projects completed in this course tie into the website in having them as clickable image icons. The twitter and blog projects in this course were done professionally so that students could use them to promote examples of their work.  These were also baby steps to creating whole websites. Having these social media projects done was necessary so that in the future, there can be examples of professional twitter and blogs by students that were not used for recreational use and do not have anything inappropriate on them. The overall experience of creating a website was challenging. Using coding and creating a website was a whole new ball game.  Coding the wikiHow pages was a struggle so hearing that coding was necessary again for website creation was alarming. Accidentally taking out one character messes up every part of a single page. It was pleasantly surprising that everything turned out fine with patience and questions. The easiest part was picking which works to promote while the most challenging was definitely coding and using photoshop. Once again, using photoshop had not been done before this class so learning the intricacies of it took time.  Repetition made it easier but it still took longer to edit those photos than desired. Learning how important resolution, height, width and image size are was another new experience. Dreamweaver was another new application for me. It is overwhelming as a whole to log onto Dreamweaver because of how intense the coding looks. Also, remembering which tab to work under was a tad bit tricky at times when not being able to see why something is not working. Organizing the content of the website went different for everyone.  Making a website very neat and organized felt aesthetically pleasing while others either could not get theirs like that or changed the sizes of certain projects so they stood out more. The look this website is going for is professional and fun. The beach banner was fun to create because of the intentional blur on the photo and the lesson plan image is very colorful which shows my bright personality. Also, the professional feel of it is extremely important since my facebook, twitter, instagram, etc are all for recreational use.  Sharing these website links on resumes, applications, and in interviews will set us apart in the best way.