
Having looked at some of the styles iWeb offered, I found the best one that would suit a newspaper style website. I chose the 'blog' template, which looked as though it fitted my genre. Others I had looked at looked more like they should be for personal blogs or websites, such as these


The layout I decided to use was a blog layout presumably aimed at people using it for holiday entries, however it was perfect for my practice using the product. Taking into consideration it was just a practice session, with the aid of my teachers, peers and internet guides, I played around with what I had, adding in satirical stories as well as those I had found from the internet. I learnt how to add in text properly, using the 'new blog' feature, how to delete items that I didn't want, change text that was there, insert my own images, and had a better idea of how the layouts worked on iWeb as they differ greatly from any Adobe or Microsoft product I had ever used. One thing I found difficult was that the built in layouts were restricting in that I could not change the colours of the backgrounds or alter the layout from its set position. Despite this, I was happy with what I had achieved, and I now feel in a better position for moving onto actually creating my website; safe in the knowledge I can make a product that looks good and is efficient in a small amount of time.
The most valuable lesson I had learnt from my experience was the aspect of saving my document, as on College Macs, you need to find a 'domain' file once you have saved it in order to enable editing next time around, however I shut down my computer without thinking and the file was lost. Thankfully I was not half way through working on my final piece!

Proficient research into technology you are going to use for your website.
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