I am all done with my project (or at least I have to be as it is due today, right?) Building a site is time-consuming. Understatement of the year I know, but seriously I think that has been kind of surprising to me. Every time I go to my site I think “Oh, I could change that just a little bit and make it look better or sound better” It’s like it’s never actually done because you can always make it better and it seems so “easy” to just change a couple things and update the site. In the end, you’ve spent countless hours improving something that others may or may not even notice.
Most recently,
- I faded my header image on the right hand side into the background, so now people with larger monitors will not see that rough, finite edge of my image.
- I added padding to my main navigation to make the text more legible. Now that I have done that I also think I have redirected some needed attention on what is important to the site in the first place: directing teacher and student attention to where they need to go to start using the site.
- I finished adding content to each image in my database. I could have added many more images, but that brings me back to my original point that work on a website is never completed.
Website building is tedious. A change you might need to do to your site may not be a major one, but can take hours of figure out and perfecting. My header is a fabulous example of this. I really can’t tell you how long I spent on that because I’ve last track at this point. I will say that although something may be time-consuming, in the end something as simple as fading an image on the right hand side into the background may not sound like a big deal, but it really makes the site look more professional.
And that’s the main objective, right? To present something to the public in such a way that it teaches something while also appearing legitimate and scholarly. No one wants to look at a site that is poorly done and reads/appears to have been done by a 10 year old.
I’m pretty proud of the work I’ve done and know that I have learned a lot about presentation of digital material on a philosophical level as well as on a practical and utilitarian level.
I hope everyone else’s projects went well and have a great summer!!
