I thought it was great that we had such a wide range of topics to choose from for this assignment. If you are interested in something it always makes it that bit easier. I chose to cover online privacy and security and used Facebook as a case study because my own Facebook security had been breached earlier this semester. For the website’s interface design I chose to use a colour scheme similar to that of Facebook and used the Tahoma font which is used on Facebook. I wrote all of the content except for one quote myself. I thought that this would be more beneficial than just regurgitating text from another website or book. I used a Spry menu for navigation purposes as I thought this would lead to the most intuitive navigation. I managed to embed a few YouTube videos with tips and warnings for Facebook users as I thought this would be more interactive and engaging than having plain text on every page.
Some of the major issues I had were getting the web pages to fit screens on different monitors and to eliminate all scrolling. My Spry Menu also crashed on the day the website was due which was a big setback. However I managed to go through the code and different menu options and eventually sorted these problems out in the nick of time. I think our introduction to HTML at the beginning of the semester was very helpful as I was no longer afraid to have a look at code and actually alter or delete items. I think I was much more aware of the fact that I needed to keep the look and feel of the site consistent from page to page and this in turn made it more visually attractive and professional looking than I thought possible with Dreamweaver.
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