For this review I’m going to use my final project. My groups website was very well balanced. We made sure that if one section had a box somewhere, like the look-book link, we added another one on the other side that would link to somewhere else. Unity wise we made sure that every layout that was going to be similar was done with the same coding. The pages were basically in the center, the navigation bars (top and bottom) never moved. The only main difference was what is shown in the body of the work. Our layouts we tried to keep simple and easy to follow, yet kept it interesting. Our background (minus the shoe pictures themselves) was the only real textured used. Combined with the layouts and texture of the background, I think our site was very professional to look at. The colors really came through with the shoes. We wanted to keep the color scheme of the layouts itself simple, not over bearing to out do the photos. We stuck with more neutral tones, and that helped make the shoes look better/more professional. And the text/navigation easier to follow. Our navigation bar at the top was easy. You hovered over it and the text like Home would change so it was obvious that it was link and you could click there. The shoe pages themselves you could click on the smaller photos and it would take you to a new page that held that smaller photo in the bigger box. We could have maybe made that more obvious, but I think it worked well. Also each shoe page had a break down of other shoes offered and the names. You could click that text and it would take you to that page. Also the shoe pages had boxes along the bottom, one linking to the look-book and another to the about us page. Easy to understand. The look-book when you hovered over an image, it would move up and reveal text. You could click that text and it would take you to that page. I could have made it easier to understand by making that photo stay up longer or even disappear altogether. The home page had similar links like the other pages, but at the bottom you could click two icons, Facebook or twitter. Both of those would take you to the Facebook or twitter page depending on which one you clicked. Over all I think we did a good job with our navigation. A few glitches, but pretty good. As for emphasis, our logo was on every page. It was clear what website you were on and using. Also the picture we wanted to have you focused on the most was larger and more centered the others smaller. Our entire website flowed well, was easy to understand, easy to navigate, and over all professional in style. I’m extremely proud of what my group did together. We created an awesome site, one that looks cool, clean, neat, organized, simple, and interesting all at once.

Lesson wise I learned that it was easier to work off the shells of layouts we created. I didn’t think it would make that much of a difference but in the end it was the most helpful. It made it simple to look at a layout and create the pages from them. It also helped that each member took a page or design element and focused on that. We then complied it all together and were able to, more easily than if we had not done this, put the site together. I learned that by having the pages be copied once they were complete in style, (like the shoe pages are the same minus text and photos), it made it so much easier to tweak, fix, and rearrange any glitches. I also learned how to animate a photo, link text, and link photos. I also discovered that this whole project required a lot more time than I had anticipated.