Last week, I took part in a workshop where I learnt the basics of the website creation software, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. In this workshop, I learnt a variety of skills which will aid me in the creation of my website homepage in the A2 Media coursework. These skills include the ability to create links on pages, editing backgrounds and page layouts, indexing individual webpages and editing layers in Photoshop in order to make them suitable for the purposes of the website.
By applying these skills, I should be more capable of creating a more professional looking homepage with well-formatted links, images, video and text. This workshop provided with an entirely new set as skills which I did not previously possess. While beforehand I was quite capable of utilising HTML to format a page layout on MySpace, I had no first-hand experience of building a site from the ground upwards.
I found the process of creating the website taxing, as the method of creating the site indexing is very regimented, with little room for mistakes. One key issue was the fact that if mistakes were made early on, they would often not be noticed until further into the process, with any mistakes often proving difficult to trace.
In contrast, however, the visual layout of the page, such as the choice of fonts, images and backgrounds, did allow some degree of creative input, drawing on semiotic codes to create meanings within the audience.
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All true, but you don't really discuss how the workshops are facilitating a more creative approach! How, for example, do you intend to adapt existing skills with the new skills?
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