For my last review I chose to reflect on my Briar Rose single page site.

I think I did a decent job at balancing out the most important elements of the page as far as size goes. The header is large, but not too large that it drowns out the image slider; the navigation, while at the bottom as the page, is still visible and clearly navigation. If I were going to do the project again I would take out the roses on the top header, they look awkward and I do believe they throw the balance of the page off slightly; the eye gets stuck on them. I believe the whole page is very unified; everything looks as if it belongs together. All of the content is in the same graphics style and made from the same color palette, which helps a lot. I really liked the layout of my page from the image slider down to the navigation. I liked the idea of the user scrolling through the graphics as if reading a storybook. If I were to do this project again I would make the storybook aspect more prominent, possibly by finding a more engaging JQuery plug-in that actually looked as if the user was flipping pages. As I mentioned before, the color palette I used really unifies my page; all the content is made from neon and pastel colors. I think that my color choice really adds to the story line and over-all feel of the page, it gives it a child-like feel. My page hardly virtually no texture to it whatsoever, all of the content is very smooth and cartoon looking, which is exactly how I wanted it to be. I think the navigation of the page is very effective. The user has two options for viewing the storyline: the buttons at the bottom of the page and the arrows on either side of the image slider. One big improvement that I would make to the page is making sure that users knew to hover over each image to get the words to appear.
My biggest lesson learned during this project is how to apply and manipulate JQuery to my advantage.