Individual Website Reflection

I have revised my individual website several times now, since we got this assignment. I first started off by making a homepage. Then I created a page for each work that I did for the class. For example, I had a separate page for my Excel work, a separate page for my Mail Merge, a separate page for my poster, etc. I created interactive buttons on my homepage that would take you to the pages containing my works. Then I continued to work on the pages that included the items I made for class. I added a picture of my works, a paragraph about them, and a title that explanied what it was.
When I went back to review my website, I decided that I had way too many interactive buttons on my homepage. It made it clustered, and didn't look as good as I thought it did. So, I created 5 new pages, and replaced the clustered interactive buttons with those. These 5 new buttons included Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, and my Revised Works. I then moved my clustered interactive buttons to each Module Page that it belonged to. This made it alot more organized and orderly.
When I created my pages, I made them all different colors. I decided it would be better to coordinate the Module page color with each work that went with it. For example, if I made Module 1 orange, all of the work pages that were under Module 1 would be orange as well. I felt like this made my pages more organized and looked better overall.
I decided to include a Module button at the bottom of each page, as well as our home button. I think it would be easier to have a module button to take you back, instead of hitting the back button. It also makes it easier then just hitting the home button, and reclicking on the module button.
I really like my current version of my website. I feel that it represents me well and shows the hard work that I have put into the class. I have really enjoyed making the website, and put a lot of effort into it.

Reflections

This week on the course website, it says to work with your group members to fix some of our older work. I started to revise my booklet that I made in Microsoft Word.
Looking back at this project, I noticed the text was aligned funny, the pictures were out of order, and it lacked color. I think when I saved the original, it got messed up somehow.
The first thing I did to fix this project, was I added a background color. I made my booklet a travel booklet for my home county, Elk County. I added a nice, simple green background. It helps the booklet stand out, and the color is appropriate. The color doesn't hurt the eyes, or take away from the content.
The second thing I did was change the colors of the fonts. Some of the colors I used were now hard to see since I changed the background color. I like the font colors better now that they have a background to go with.
Next, I fixed the pictures. I deleted some spaces and moved my pictures around. This helped add more meaning to the text that I had. For instance, I had a picture of one of the places to stay. I originally wanted the picture by the hotel name and address. It didn't save like this, so I fixed it. Now viewers will get more meaning out of it.
Then I realigned some of the text I had. I feel like now it flows better and is easier to read.
The final thing I did was I fixed my Table of Contents. I fixed the headers of the towns, and the listings below it. It is now so much easier to follow and makes more sense.
I like the idea of going back and seeing how you are able to improve your work. Sometimes it just takes someone elses perspective to help you out.

Using EDTF learnings in other classes

I once again used what I learned in EDTF 300 in another class. I used what we learned about making a title photo for a video. I also used some of our Microsoft Word formatting skills in another class. I had to make a small video for another class, and used Power Point to make a title page. Then I also had to write a short summary with it. I used some of the text wrap and header things we learned, like inserting the new header. I've also used Publisher for other classes. I find it a lot easier now to have other resources to make things look better for other classes. I find the information I've learned in this class very helpful and useful. I used Excel to make a schedule for myself, since I register soon. This class has been very beneficial in many ways.