To be honest I am a disappointed with the way my website has turned out it just doesn't look like I thought or hoped it would. One of the main issues I think I have made for myself is spending more time planning and designing the home page than any other, and I think when people look at the site they will know and realise as it is so obvious more effort and designing went into it than another page. I think that if I had planned out the other pages and the ways I wanted to present the information on these pages I would have saved myself a lot of problems when designing and also got each page to a design level where I was happy with it.
That being said I am happy with what I have learnt and can take away form this project as this was my first time hand coding a website fully I learnt a lot on this side of the project. Coding both HTML and CSS which I really enjoyed and think will be very useful for the future, I also learnt about responsive website what makes them, how they work etc. which again will be very useful for the future. Planning and designing for a full website was also slightly different to when I last did it in a previous project. Also as mentioned above I have learnt that you need to plan all of your pages for a website and not just one otherwise it just becomes weaker and weaker as you add more pages.
I also don't think that making as many changes as I did on the final day helped either as the changes were rushed so it could be submitted for the deadline. These changes were completely remaking the geology and wildlife page to lose the tab system and the image slider. Which I think these pages now look better but with more time could of become something I was really happy with. Whilst I know these changes needed to be made and make my website stronger I think I should have considered them and made them earlier so the pages would look a lot better now.
Overall I am happy with my ideas for this project and what I have learnt form it such as coding, making it responsive, user testing, validating and jquery etc. However I feel that I could have made the website look a lot better in terms of layouts and structures and basically just a stronger final product. But i think making this mistake now in this project will make my next website or web based project a lot stronger.
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