I did my website on the subject of clouds and how meteorologists use them to predict weather. I chose to do this topic because I knew a lot of information about clouds because I took a meteorology class at my Community College and loved it. I also have a lot of pictures of clouds that would be great for examples of the subject material. I also chose the topic of clouds because I want my audience whether it is surfers or seekers to know how to determine future weather conditions just by looks up at the sky.
Doing the wix website was something different and unlike any assignment I had before. I liked doing the wix webpage because I got to not only put information that I knew very well into a webpage, but I was able to put pictures that I took so everybody can see them. I take a lot of pictures and to have somebody see my work makes me happy. I though making a website with the information from out research paper was a good idea and the whole assignment had a great creative side to it. When we were done with the paper, we got to create a virtual paper with pictures and colors; however we wanted to design it. I was excited to do the paper and see how the website would turn out. I was somewhat nervous because I was not familiar with the website wix, but I knew I was going to have to figure it out on my own and I would be okay.
The design of my website has purples, pinks and blues as the background because the different colors complement each other nicely. I chose black for the text so it was easier to read the material- that is very important. Part of the website design was to see the information laid out in a website format, and if one is unable to decode the text, it is pointless to even put the text in there in the first place. I chose to put the menu of the different sub sections of the website at the top so it is easily accessible to whoever is viewing it. I chose to use the scroll bar in my text portions of my website because I did not want the reader to be overwhelmed of the amount of words in one text box; using the scroll bar would alleviate some of the huge amount of words on each page.
The pictures that I chose, all but two, were ones that I took myself using my own digital camera. I like to take pictures as a hobby, and I was excited when I found out that I could put my picture taking skills to good use. The pictures I used were taken in New Jersey; Maryland; Florence, Italy; Pompeii, Italy; Paris, France; Versailles, France and London, England.
One of the websites that we talked about in class to make sure our background colors worked together is called Color Scheme Design 3. It is a color wheel online and it tells you which colors work together and which colors do not. I thought it was a really helpful webpage to see which colors worked together and which did not. I will use that website for my other classes that require the me to make a website.
I had no obstacles in doing the wix website. I was able to figure out the features of the website just by playing around with the website. I was able to make my website pretty, yet informative. I used a pre-made template and made it my own. When I was done with my website, I was able to help other people in the class with theirs.
