Website update: Nearly there!

It is now deadline week and I am getting to the point where my website is looking like a professional site!

It is really exciting to see everything I have created in one place, and have a site to show all of my hard work from the last few months.

 I noticed that when the page is open in a browser, the tabs and url show the titles as I have named them in muse. This takes away from the professional look and feel of the website so I will adjust this accordingly.

 This is the as seen in page. the thumbnails when selected will bring up a slideshow of the images from the shoot. I am really happy with how this page looks as I think it is simple and professional looking.

I noticed when including the drop down menu that the How-to page had not automatically been given a label in the menu, so I will put this in. I have included a footer on all pages other than the home page to ease navigation and bring in search engine traffic as John has mentioned this when talking about optimising website traffic. I chose not to have this on the home page as I felt it looked a little messy on smaller screens, and took the focus off the image slideshow.

 I will have the shop page up and running tomorrow as I have everything set and ready to go, I just need to think about pricing of the pieces. For the time being this will not be a working shop as I feel that there are areas I still need to develop before I can launch this as an official business. I will have images and links to pages with prices of pieces however, but instead of being able to purchase the pieces there will be a button stating that they will be ready for purchase soon.

I decided to put a contact page in as many businesses have these, and it gives a more personal touch to the website. There is currently an auto reply on the website thanking the sender for the message, and I have these emails forwarding onto my personal email so I get notification whenever one comes through.

 I noticed when opening my site up on a large iMac that the screen looks very small, so I think I need to play around and ensure that the page is set to be responsive to the browser size to ensure that the website is clear and smart throughout on whatever screen or browser that is being used.

I am really happy with how the site is looking so far, and feel that I will be able to get a great final site ready for the hand in on Friday after a few final tweaks and additions.