Final Project Reflections

I chose for my final project to creat a webpage. I thought that this would be a great tool for communicating with my students and parents. I could put up important information such as homework and lessons that students could access from anywhere at anytime. This has proven to not be the best way to get all of that information out there.

I chose to use Weebly to create and publish my site. Weebly is so easy to use for the basics but it did limit what I could do. I could not be creative in my layout and organization of my pages. Weebly allowed for preset pages. The word processor was also limiting. You could not change the font size or style with in a paragraph. Everything had to be the same. You also could not cut and paste from an existing document and hold your formatting. Everything had to be reformatted. I struggled trying to add custom HTML to the pages and ended up giving up on that idea. You could only add pictures and text in preset positions.
Over all it Weebly was easy to get started, I was just disappointed with my final outcome.

In creating a webpage, I also found that my inital desires for the purpose of the page were not easy to implement. Keeping the page updated with current information was not as easy as I thought it would be. The class blog was actually easier to post homeowork assignments and to keep them up to date. So I put a link on the webpage to the class blog for one of my classes.

I think I will explore other possible web publishers and see if any of them offer something better for me for creating my webpage.