Today I spent another day working on the website for Secure By Integrity. Yesterday I managed to complete the home page and some of the inner pages, so I spent the morning working on the rest of the inner pages. By mid afternoon I had completed everything that I thought I could do, so I sent each page to Adam who then printed them off and spent and hour going through it with me and giving me pointers on how to improve.
I had mastered the basic design of the website; I had a solid colour palette and fonts styles that run consistently throughout all of the pages, but I wasn't aware of how different modules work when building a website. The actual building of the website is something that I hadn't even given a second thought at this stage and it didn't cross my mind that I would have to design the website to fit a certain framework; I thought that you would be able to build a website in any way you designed it and didn't consider that their would be limitations on the developer's side of the process. Adam took the time to explain to me what different modules there are and showed me some websites that he has designed previously so that I could visually understand how the different modules work together. He then went on to show me how the modules look when logged on to the website to edit it, and explained that I should separate everything as best I can so that the modules are as flexible as they could possibly be. In addition he told me to consider what changes may be made in the future, all of the modules for the website will be added at this early stage, so changes need to be considered and incorporated into the initial development.
After this conversation I definitely had a better idea of how to lay out web design to make the modules as flexible as they can be. In addition I also learned other smaller tips such as how to align everything, how much space to leave in between each object on the page and how to use different font styles to break up the text on the pages, in order to maximise the level of engagement that the website has.
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