The Website Project

Investigation: I am going to create a website. I am still debating what the website should be about. My choices are a book/movie, clothing, or maybe about the manga I have read so far in my life. I am still undecided. I need to find tutorials that can help me create a basic website. After that I need to decide what type of information I want to put in my website. How many pages are going to be in my website. Where I will get my information. I am still browsing through websites in google to give me an idea how I want the format of the websites. I have an rough idea on what the color should be. My website will have both bright/dark and   rainbow colors. I want a variety of colors in my website. The more I research the more I want to do the a book which a movie has been based on. It will have to be popular and released in the year 2000+.

Plan:
For the planning I have decided to base my website on flash based on the Hunger Games. Its popular and has a very recent movie released. I want to add links and pictures and videos on my flash website.  I had a basic idea on what i wanted my website to look like, but just to be more confident in my choice a looked at the simplest websites that beginners have created. I am gong to have text, pictures, music/viedo, information about the author and some type of background color. I haven't deciede on the color theme on if I should use the same color through out the different pages or use different colors. This is what I am going to have my website look like.

Create: I have to search a lot for types of tutorials that can help me download videos off of youtube and how to put them in flash. A lot of tutorials for flash were for the old versions so I played around for about a week to finally get it the way I wanted this is what it looks like. I also looked over different tutorials on how to make my buttons a bit more unique and different but at the end I decided to keep it simple and just have the words change color when the mouse rolls over to it. I have no idea how I got the background for my characters to have the hunger game background but I liked it so kept it. Since my website is about the fist book I include a trailer of the book at the links if they wanted additional information. The videos took the longest but at the end it was worth all the time it took me to get it to work.

Evulation:
Overall I liked how my project turned out. The major problem i had was that the scroll wouldnt work in my website. I had done the tutorials and it worked perfectly but I was unable to apply that to my website. Another thing that took me a week and a half to do trial and error was trying to put a video in flash, and were to download my video from since most of the downloading websites I knew was blocked off because of district policy. What I LIKED best about this project was the fact that it was easier to manipulate the text to get it the way I wanted it to look like. I also like that I cold add pictures directly in my website without opening it a special or complicated way.