Ced533—Week 3: Reflections on Web Design after a 3 Week Hiatus!

After wrapping up the school year and thinking about what we have learned so far in CEd533, I have come up with the following observations:

• I certainly look at websites with a more critical eye now. In particular, I was checking out my daughter’s summer fastpitch team site. As a coach, I sent sponsor information to the web designer. When I checked a week later, the site had not been updated and, in fact, the home page still said it was 2007. I will bring this up to our program’s head coach and let him know that we need to achieve a much higher level of currency.

Here is the link: http://www.worldseriestc.com/home.html

• My brother runs a gas barbeque grill assembly shop and retail outlet in Butler. The two manufacturers that he represents have websites, one of which he would like our study group to critique. As a business education teacher, I will enjoy reviewing this site with my group. I may have more of a managerial approach whereas my group members may have more of a consumer perspective. Both are important to consider.

Here is the link: http://www.modernhomeproducts.com/

• I look forward to learning about CSS, Java, content management systems, and helper software such as Dreamweaver. Many of my business education peers teach Dreamweaver and I need to have a basic understanding of it, whether obtained in this course or in my own work this summer.
• I wonder how easily I will pick up HTML again after being away from it for several weeks. I finally started to grasp it in Week 3 and I am curious how my retention will be. In addition, I have done our HTML work at my school. However, now that the school year is over and I have turned my keys in, I hope that our home computer will work well for my web pages. I did have some difficulties with Filezilla and graphics at home back in Week 1, but that may have been my inexperience more than anything else.