Evaluation Question- What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

As you can see, my preliminary task had empty space and was rather dull. This was due to my lack of knowledge of the program and shows that I was limited by my abilities to utilise the software. Although the feedback I got was not all negative, I decided that I would have a black background for my drug abuse charity website as it doesn't look as dull, and it will make the colours around it look brighter in comparison. However, I did get positive feedback on the menu bar which was convenient as it is a feature I wanted to keep, as it is useful and professional. I kept this element of the website the same. I learnt that to create a website that was effective according to Sklar theory that the top left hand corner should contain the logo as this will be the first place that our eyes are drawn to. It will then go across the page in a zig zag manner. This was useful information to know as I could arrange my website according to the three ways that people view a website, to assure that my website will be easy to view.  I didn't expect the preliminary task to be as challenging as it was, however I feel I managed to step up to the challenge and although it was not as good as I would have liked it to be, it was a good learning curve. 

I feel that this project has not only developed my skills in using Dreamweaver, but given me a useful knowledge of it that I may be required to use later on with life, especially if I take Media for A2. Also, the research was more rigorous in the main task which has helped me to improve my research skills.
The images in the final task were very different to those in the preliminary but mainly due to the content, as the quality was still high. Although, I did use more images so as to break up the text.
In the preliminary task I was writing for a selection of audiences; young teenagers around the age of 11 so that they would like the school website and be tempted to come to it but also adults. This made it quite difficult as I had to cater for two very different audiences.

In this task I targeted a mass audience but it was more easy to pinpoint their likes, as bright colours attract a young audience but also pleases an older audience. This meant that the planning for the main task was slightly easier in the sense of a target audience but the content was much more complex, especially seeing as we had to make four pages instead of two.

Was the planning of the main in comparison to the prelim harder