Website design

Now into the second year of BCT we have started with the first two weeks consisting of creating our own portfolio websites to display our work.


As someone who already has had previous knowledge in creating a website I thought going into this exercise would be an advantage. Instead I let myself fall into an area of assumption and not following the right steps that I had once learnt or taken before. I found that I had made a few errors when it came to following my plan, or rather I had not thought about what the purpose of the content I displayed on a webpage and doubling up on information used. This caused for me to keep redesigning the pages so they had purpose while trying to keep the same look and feel between navigation. Also from my past experience of working on websites, it is best to have one page done that the others can use for as a sort of template and not to change them drastically once they are all made because it will take up unnecessary time editing each one separately once that is done. Unfortunately as I began to upload my website I started to face these same problems and wasting time going through each webpage.

From what I understand it was not that I had not put in enough time but instead not using my time on a set plan. I had set out a plan of what it was I wanted to displayed on my website but as I started to try out new things it brought forward further problems and tasks to put with the the work I already had planned out or rather things I wanted to complete in the moment. This used up a lot of my time as I continued to switch between testing and researching what works for a webpage design and kept changing my decision due to my indecisiveness. I have began to realise that if I have a goal to complete at the start of my day then I shall focus on that until it is complete. From now on I will try to keep to this and always focus on the most important task and can hopefully have a better outcome instead of using the small amounts of time on small problems.

My end result is far from complete and not ready to display as a website just yet. Hopefully I will have spare time in between my other work to keep working at it until it is more or less complete.