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Creating websites was one of the more difficult assignments of the year. I believe we have a whole class for this one topic so I guess that while the quality of this one particular assignment wasn’t that great, we should get more of it in the future.
It is amazing how much the web design process has changed. I have Dreamweaver since the macromedia days my sophomore year of high school. It is amazing how much has changed since.  CSS is completely new.   Obviously designing with tablets and smartphones in mind are also a big change.  I am looking forward to learning more about that in the future.
I did even go through a geocities phase back in my younger days in the 90s.  I remember cluttering it with as much music as possible with floating text and animated gifs everywhere. I miss those days.
Obviously, websites are probably the most powerful form of instruction because that is the basic way people get information now. A professional looking website is the “front door” of your company. And the process is only going to change more and more.
I do feel that for this class, wix would have made a lot more sense for this assignment. I thought experience with the program years ago would have made it work for me. I was wrong.  It is good to know that there are programs out there that make it easy for novices. 
I also had difficulty designing what type of multimedia was necessary.  I figured videos would be best for the last three steps, while images and text would be good for the beginning. I am not sure if music and sound outside of videos was appropriate. Obviously for different topics like playing music, sound might make more sense.  Less is more, and making this too complicated was something very easy to do.
In the long run, all of what I learned came into fruition for this project. I needed to use the elements of visual design. I had to storyboard. Appropriate use of video and multimedia also was useful.  It was nice to have most of the elements already created in the previous units. I was just plugging in what I already had.

In the future, I need to take more webmastering classes. I might take one over the next year in community college just to get a leg up on people.  Collin College has very good continuing education classes. I might take a dreamweaver one in the future.

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