Website #2

Our group has decided on a website that we will use to help incoming freshmen with learning about Texas Tech and Lubbock. It will be done from the point of view of current students so it has its own unique viewpoint. We have split the project up into me and Alex doing the storyboard and proposal and Rock and Brian doing the manual. We will all contribute in our own ways to the website overall. We set some deadlines for each item as well. The proposal we want to have finished by March 1. The website we want to have finished by April 10. And the manual we want to have completed by April 24.

Website Improvement

The first thing I would do if I had more time is make my side menu better. Instead of just having text I would have buttons or something that is better to look at. The way it looks now is just very plain. The next thing I would work on is the spacing. Working on the website on the big screens in class and working on the smaller screen I have at home gave me two very different looks. What may look good on the bigger screen at school did not look the way I wanted when I would get home and look at it on my screen. The last thing I would work on if I had more time is the pictures. I would try to crop and resize them so that they looked more appealing on the eye. I would also give them borders so that they were each their own and stood out.

Microsoft expressions

I've finally started using Microsoft expressions to create my website and all I can say is, "Thank God for this program." Before I was using this program I felt like Nemo lost at sea. Now I can actually start making my website look how I had it pictured in my mind. I didn't even look at any other programs. I just went with what Dr. Rice said and hoped for the best. While at first it was a little confusing and I had to mess around with it for a bit, it became much better after I got to tinker around with it today. I probably will never open notepad ever again.

Website storyboard

I'm in a group trying to raise awareness through social media for sickle cell disease. I told them this class would be perfect for me to design a website for us to try and spread some information.