evaluating

Overall- i am pleased with my final product, eventhough slight changes have been made from my proposal. The main difference is that in my proposal i outlined that i will be conducting interviews with dance teachers and filming performances, unfortunatly, even though this was a key part of my website, i was unable to do so. I initially wanted to film the dance classes from Kingston University but was told that it was not posible. i then contacted a dance lecturer and was given a similar response. I would have liked to have primary sources to add to my website as i think it would have been beneficial to the users. I therefore had to make up for the information i was supposed to gather from the interviews in my text and embedded youtube videos, i think this worked well but collecting the information myself would have been much better. I would say that this is the biggest downside to my website and all other aspects turned out as i had planned. There are other improvments that could be made to my website, I did consider inserting a moving banner but thought along with the busy backgrounds of my web pages it could end up looking too clustered. However i do think that my web pages could be made more interactive and engaging as compared to my home page they are very simple.

Presentation -When presenting my website to my classmates, i realised that the font i had downloaded for the bhangra page did not appear as i had intended, instead a default font was used. I therefore had to create headers in photoshop then insert them into dreamweaver so that the fonts i chose for every page will appear on any computer. Another problem i realised when presenting was that my pages would not always open in the same window, after research, i descovered that selecting _self in dreamweaver would solve this problem.

Server- I had great difficulty uploading my site onto the server, i spent a very long time trying to do so from home and the server would not connect. I then tried to upload it from a univeristy computer and i connected succesfully.

headers - I hink that my headers could have been made better, i could have used the roll over function or downloaded animated banners to create headers that stood out more.

Security message -Unfortunatly there is still an error on my website that i was unable to overcome, when clicking a link and opening a new page an adobe flash player security message pops up which i must then click continue to access the page. I am unaware of the reason behind this problem so therefore could not solve it.

organisation- i did not reference my information and images as i went along therefore it took a great deal of time gathering them once i had finished my website, it would have been more efficient to refernce each piece of data as i found it. even though i tried to keep my folders neat they ended up being unorganised, this did cause me some problems along the way and i soon realised the importance of keeping the folders tidy.