Web Design

The purpose of the website was for an online portfolio to showcase all the work I have made over the past year on this module. We created our webpage using Macromedia Dreamweaver, one of the main software to use to create most websites, as it allows you to create simple website layouts and to create links to each page. I had to make sure all the portfolio work could be sectioned onto different pages using relevant named buttons, to make the website easy to navigate around and clear to where different pieces of work would be located. I made a template to use for each page of the site, to make sure that the site looked consistent with the design and layout. I used Adobe Photoshop to create buttons and design each layer for the website, making it much easier to design rather than on Dreamweaver. Photoshop allowed me with more font choice, to choose colours that work well with each other and button styles. Dreamweaver allows us to compress the layers together, to create links to each individual page, and to allow wrappings to make sure the layout remains the same whatever size the screen may be. I created three pages, as I felt there wasn’t really any added pages to be inserted, the first being about myself, giving any details about me, the second was photos which I have used over the past years and the last was the videos/animations I have also created. I felt keeping the site simple, would be make it easy to navigate around but also make it look more professional than making the page too crowded with too much information on. I finished the work for the deadline, and made it available for others to access. I received good feedback on how my design and layout looked, as I made sure the white font was readable on the background colour (pale orange/pink).

This is the link to my website, with all my Digital Media Tools work from the past year:
http://www.student.ljmu.ac.uk/lssaflee/My%20Site/Index.html