1. Process of making my Homepage
I had first started off by creating the website. I was the person in the group who was allocated to set
out the pages, tabs, titles and then start creating my pages as I was now the only one who was familiar
with working with the website.
Using the layout design that had been made by Parnyan, I started on my first page which was the
homepage. I was meant to do a different page, but I had an idea of doing something different on my other
page; this page was now allocated to Sara. I started off by creating a contact form box for students. I
went on ‘Add’ then the tab took me along to more tabs. As I highlighted each one, I then saw that one of
them said ‘Contact Form,’ so I clocked on that, it took me down to, loads of contact forms, I picked the
one I liked.
As I clicked on my contact form box, I was given many different options in which I could then change the
colour of my box and anything else I may want to change about it, including picking a different style. I was
then able to change the colour of box in which I chose to make it look a bit more interesting as our
website is for students, I also wanted it to stand out.
2. Once placing my contact form box where I wanted, I then moved onto my next task. I was going to include
a video into the homepage. I didn’t have anything specific that I was meant to include, so I decided I
wanted a video that I had watched previously in connection with out topic. However, I didn’t know how to
add in the video, I had downloaded it, but didn’t know how to include it. So I went on ‘Help’ which is on the
toolbar at the top. It had a drop down bar which had another tab saying ‘How to;’ I then then able to find
how to add a video as it showed me a video on how to do it.
I realised that I had to embed the video in from YouTube. So I went on ‘add,’ which then gave me a list of
other tabs in which I clicked on ‘Music and Video’ and then ‘Video.’ It gave me a bigger box in which I had
to click on ‘Enter URL’ and then include the URL of the video form YouTube. I then had my video on the
Homepage.
3. Once placing my video where I wanted; I then added a little box onto which said to click on the video. I
done this by clicking on ‘add,’ then clicking on text, it then gave me three different options in which I
clicked on title. It gave me loads of different titles formats to choose from and I clicked on the one that
seemed most appropriate.
My next task on the layout design of the website said that I need to include an image of our Facebook
wall. This was something that our group was no longer doing. So instead I rearranged the layout of my
items to make less blank space on the page and I decided to add in a little box at the top that would tell
the readers a little bit about this website I done this by once again clicking on ‘add,’ then clicking on ‘text’
however, this time I then clicked on ‘paragraph’ as I was going to be writing quite a bit more then my
previous text. It gave me a box which is on my print screen which I could then add my own text into.
4. By highlighting the text, a toolbar then showed up which allowed me to change fonts, sixe of writing and
various other aspects to do with the text within the text box. The main change I made to the text was
making it central and enlarging the writing.
This was now my final homepage. It was double checked by our teacher and our group in which they all said
it was fine. Sara then decided she was going to make a few touches to the page, therefore the page was
then handed over for her to finish off and I was now allowed to move onto my next page.