The
creation of the website was my absolute favorite project all semester. I
totally loved how the entire thing was a culmination of everything else that we
learned during the course of this semester. It connected to every other project
we completed this semester and best of all, it used HTML coding and the new CSS
coding I learned during this project.
In an earlier blog post for the WikiHow page I commented
on how much I liked HTML coding and how it made sense to me that was made even
more apparent to me during the creation of the website. The only issues I ran
into were when I actually had no idea how to put a certain code in or how to do
a certain action such as adding a next/previous button to my portfolio pages.
The funny thing is that my mom’s boyfriend is an IT, and so the day after I
created the site in class he looked at it and showed me a bunch of websites to
help me learn code, like w3schools.
I must admit of course, that I did go a little bit
overboard with this project as the requirement for portfolio items was 8 and I
had 41. It was so fun to learn how to use it and I cannot wait to use my new
techniques to help me grow as a practitioner.
I would use my website to promote myself by adding links
to it on all of my professional social media accounts, I would also add a link
to it at all the ends of any written works I give to any client, etc. or at the
very least leave the web address. The thing I loved about this project the most
was that everything led up to it. The Twitter and Facebook Projects, the Blog
Project, even our Video and WikiHow projects to some degree. Everything was
there and used as a tool of self-promotion. It was amazing. It’s extremely
beneficial to have these add-ins because these links are the links that people
are going to be inspecting or looking at, most likely due to familiarity.
I think I got so into the project that I lost track of
time and ended up staying until after midnight with Professor Pabico to finish
it. I wanted it to be perfect, and although the final product wasn't perfect it
was pretty close to what I envisioned and I really think I learned new things
and I truly believe that I can implement these new skills into the creation of
more things not only for myself but for others.
Overall this project was the cherry on top of one of my
favorite classes to date and I didn’t care about all the time and effort I had
to put in because I had fun doing it.
