Reading Response

This weeks readings focused on ways to enhance your website using tables, animation, sliced graphics, and anti alaiasing text. Photoshop can be used for functions such as rounded out the text, adjusting hue and saturation, and making graphics look better on your website. Adjusting the resolution can be helpful for people with different internet connection speeds. I can see why some websites have an option to view the page differently if you are on a slower connection. These chapters were helpful in learning how to make your website less "simple". When building a professional website it is important to stand out from others and obtain a level of professionalism as oppose to personal websites.Using a storyboard is helpful in keeping focused on what you hope to obtain as a final product. I found the storyboard helpful in determining how many graphics I needed, what size graphics, and what type of graphics. I used the storyboard to organize the pages and plan out the site. I have created some (very basic) websites before and I think having a storyboard (which I have never used before) is extremely helpful and good idea.







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My website is based on my business, Ask Solutions Computer Consulting. I plan on making the business name my homepage title and using the page categories as their titles (staff, services, tutorials, faq, contact us). I chose this topic because I purchased the domain name last year and our "website designer" put up a default template and the words (under construction). I think it will help me focus more on the project and do a better job if I do a website that is meaningful to me as oppose to something that I probably will not keep up with :-). I gathered images mostly from freedigitalphotos.net (diigo) I ma also using some custom graphics I made in photoshop, as well as our company logo created by a former employee.I plan on using frontpage (which I also have at home) because we learned how to use it and I do not know how to use any other ones. I feel the website will come out better if I use something I know.I also plan on using webnode as my web 2.0 place because they allow domain name transfers.