Criterion E Evaluation Website

First of all I will talk about my process because I did not post anything in the meanwhile. Criterion A: For investigation, we did a lot of things. We looked at other websites and got ideas and carefully look at them. We looked at sites that other kids made and wrote about what I liked, what I didn’t like, and what I will use in my own website. It was interesting seeing that other kids even younger than me made these website. I don’t know if they made it by html or not but they were really good. Mrs. Wilson also gave us links to websites that are about websites. They give tips and they talk all about html. There were a few sites and some of them had so much to read, so I just read the outlines and got what it was about. Then, we had to pick what our websites would be about. I picked how to get you parents to say yes. It was what I was dealing with at the time so I wanted to investigate deeply into it. Mean while, to get introduced and get a glimpse of online classes, we posted these things that we wrote about the investigation on webteachertools.com. She would give us instruction on what to do. It was interesting to me because, who knows, I might take online classes. In class, Mrs. Wilson would not tell us what to do, but instead we would look at what she wrote on the site. And this is what online classes are like. Criterion B: For design, we designed how our websites would look like which is the layout. From the beginning, I had this image in my head of how my website would look like. I drew it out with different pages. It met my design specifications. However, nothing was as I expected. I knew html was going to be a little hard, but apparently I did not know how hard. It turned out that I had designed things that were too complicated for my knowledge and expertise for html. My design ended up totally different than I had planned. At first, it was frustrating, but in the end, it did not bother me that much. What mattered was the content and accessibility. My websites design was very plain, with just one picture on one page. A good thing about it is that it meat all my design specifications. It was simple, easy to understand (I hope), not too colorful (in fact it almost had no color, the pictures helped), not hard to read (the text was in black), it is easy to navigate, it has enough pictures (I think), and not too big in size. Criterion C: My plan was a good plan I tried to follow it, but the deadline was extended. The times for me to work on it was, unlike other units, in class. Coffee cup is a html editor, a website making program. We only got it installed on the school computer. We were not having enough time to finish our sites, so that is why the deadline got extended. Criterion D: The hardest part of the whole unit was the creating part. I think it was for all of my classmates too. As I said before, I didn’t think it would be that hard but it was like a nightmare. I could not figure out what to do so when I messed up, I started again from scratch. I did that about 3 times until I kind of got the hang of it. When I realized how difficult it was, I really didn’t care about how it looked anymore. I thought, “as long as the content is good.” I also dropped some of the pages that I was planning on doing. If you scroll down, u will see that I planned on having pages on different parents from different places. I had planned too many pages, so I decreased mine to 6 pages from 13. My content in my website are from interviews, my opinions, and voted top tens. I went around my classmates and asked them their opinions, tips, and experiences. My pictures are made and found from the Internet. The ones I made are done in paint. My website is not to teach kids to not listen to their parents, or go the wrong path and do bad things. It is just for kids, mostly teenagers, who feels how I feel. Imprisoned, lack of trust, overprotective-ness. My tips might not work for some parents, if it doesn’t then its ok, because I tried to help. And if their parents are still saying no, then they are asking for something that is just very wrong. Doing this website also helped me because I found out new things that I did not know. I will use them on my parents and also remember not to fall for it when I become a parent. Testing my site was the same as all my classmates. We opened our website and left them. We went around and put a scale from 1 to 10 and some comments. There are 3 things to grade: visual appeal, navigation, and content. It was really exciting and fascinating to see my classmates’ works after all of us working so hard. The one I liked the most was Ha Young’s grade 10 website. As for me, my highest mark was for navigation, then content, then visual appeal. My website was plain. If I do this unit again, or make another website on my own, there are many things I would remember to do to improve my website. First of all, I would pay close attention to the codes. I would really investigate more about the codes. I would have a better program. If it is available, I would use something like dream weaver, but it was not available in our school, and doing this project again, would not be the same with dream weaver. I would also work on it more, put more time into it. There are still a lot of things I don’t understand about html, just like many other things in the world. This is embarrassing, but before this unit, I did not even know what html was. I didn’t even care. I was just happy that there are websites and I could use them. I see now that I took it for granted. It is hard work, and it takes up a lot of time. Now that I know how people make the sites, I appreciate it more.

New plan for website