Ennis Hub Website

When our team was starting this section of the project we had another face-to-face group meeting where we outlined the exact pages we would include in our website and the graphics, content and interactive features that we would include. We had to take the needs of the different website users into consideration when we were making these decisions and try to see things from their point of view, rather than from our view as designers. We set provisional deadlines once again as we had done with the proposal and worked away individually.

Susan and I were designated the role of content developers and Shane would then edit and upload this content after the initial write up. Avril was our graphic designer and Michael was once again our technical expert. Michael introduced the team to a web development tool called Joomla which he was familiar with and thought would be much easier to use than Adobe Dreamweaver. I think Michael’s previous experience with Joomla was partly the reason that he found it so easy to use. Even by the end of the project I was still learning about new features whenever I logged on to the site. Of course this was all part of the learning experience and you never know when these tools could come in useful. Even though each team member had specific roles to fulfil we all seemed to overlap into each others’ sections of the project and learned from one another’s expertise in different areas. For example Shane, Susan and I went to Ennis to take photographs which Avril then edited and manipulated for use in the website. After Susan and I had written our content we went through it with Shane and edited it. Michael also drew up Joomla tutorials for us, which meant that we were also able to upload some content and get used to editing the site and using the back end of Joomla.  I think without Michael’s knowledge of Joomla the project would have taken up way more of our time and would not have been nearly as successful.