Evaluation

My task was to produce a website that was for a charity that I was passionate about, it had to contain four pages. My website had to have my own photograph, logo, written text, video and navigation bar. I have done my charity on animals because I like then and i find them interesting so I have chosen to use them.
I believe that my website on the whole doesn’t break the conventions. I have tried to make my website stand out by using a brown theme where i use different shades of brown to compliment each other. I have used easy to the eye colours; I have based my website on similar charities which support animals and the prevention of cruelty to them. Maybe another thing that could challenge the conventions is the layout and the shape of my shape on my website it looks unusual and different, i have used boxes round any writing or pictures so that it all together i feel it gives it a professional look.
My website shows different social groups because lots of people like animals and lots of people own and care for them. So it directed at animal lovers and people who own pets/animals. I aimed my website at all of the animal owner’s not just pets, so it has a broader audience. People who are not interested in animals will not look at this website; it could be any gender, age, ethnicity and intellect. It isnt set on a social status any social status can look at the website it towards the people who are interested.
My website will be broadcasted on the internet because it is an easy to access and can be shown to everyone all over the world. The internet is a useful way to find information and it will be listed under a charity the internet is way of advertising for my charity. I will use it via a website and use the search engines such as google and yahoo so people will be able to find it easily. I would have to submit it to Google, Fast, Altavista, WiseNut, (write Teoma), DirectHit, and Hotbot these are all the major search engines and it will be reconised. If you use other links to other websites it will get you more well known, I have a few hyperlinks to other websites if other websites do the same. I can get to the top of google also by meta tagging certain words so that when the word is shown it will show my website. It could be in a governmental industry because cruelty to animals is against the law and you can get jail sentence for it.
The target audience I aim to attract is ones that have a passion for preventing harm against animals. My website is based on rescuing and adopting animals it shows a range of animals at a range of ages. I have provided information about the animals and how they got treated when they were younger this could effect the way they are around people. I want to attract both loving families and people who love and want to care for animals "Animals are not just a toy for Christmas" is a general comment that is used but it is true. Animals are for ever and through my website I wanted to emphasize this and show that they have thoughts and feelings too. They are not as stupid as they are seen to be they are clever animals they help us within the police, guarding and other jobs. They need to have the love and care and be treated properly so I wanted to portray this through my website and to the reader.
I attracted/address reader having true/up to date and real life stories about the animals and I decided that I would use an easy access navigation bar which helped the reader to look round the website easier. The words I used were easy and clear words to read, the font I used was Georgia and it is clear and easy to read so it is not a fancy font which is difficult to read. Also I had my logo in the left hand corner so the reader knew that they were on the right site, all the pages were same design so it made it look like a proper website that all fitted together. The reader might also be attracted to the page by the look of the website as it is bright colours it looks smart and not messy. Also the content on the website would attract the reader to look at it.
I have put on my website my own photography and in this I have used lots of different types of pictures most of them use dominate pictures where the animals is the main focus of the picture but it is very hard to picture animals. On the our work in action page both of the pictures of the cat and the dog they are both looking at the reader so it makes them feel like they want to be adopted. It represents that the animal wants a loving home. In some of the pictures I tried to get the animal looking away from the camera to show that they are afraid and trying to show cruelty.
I have learnt about new technologies within making my website I have used different and new software such as Serif WebPlus 10’, 'Windows Movie Maker' and ‘Adobe Photoshop’. These have all helped me to design and make my website, I used Serif WebPlus 10 to make my website and construct it. It is a useful and good piece of software where I can easily make a website I was able to make hyperlinks to connect my pages together. I used windows movie maker to construct my video I first got my raw uncut video where I then looked through it and edited it to what I wanted to. Then when I had my edited video I then added in my pictures and writing. It is easy to use and I found it very helpful with doing my video. I added titles so that people who are hard of hearing were able to read what it says. I used Photoshop to make my design, navigation bar, cut my pictures and make the titles for my website. Photoshop is a hard piece of software to understand and use but I found that after you got used to it you could use it to the best of its ability. It helped me a lot with my presentation and the way my website worked. It made my navigation and gave me the flash on the page as you highlighted it.
Looking at my preliminary task compared to this one I think having my own pictures helped a lot because you had what you wanted in the picture not one that you found. So it made it easier and gave me exactly what I wanted. I have also gained new skills now I am able to make my own navigation bar and make it work effectively. I now know how to take effective filming and also picture’s and make it look good, now I can use Photoshop to cut the pictures and make them look different instead of being a boring box shape. My first website I made wasn’t very good but I have learned from my mistakes I think I have made a very good website that is eye catching and effective.
If I did this again I would proof read it before making it final for example on my video I spelt calmer wrong and put karma and it is a mistake I would correct next time. Also I would try and experiment with designs of my website and try and make it exciting.

new website pictures

These are my new websites pages I have kept it very professional looking, they all look the same and they all look like they are part of one website.