I have finished my website and all the planning and testing for it. In this paper, I am going to evaluate my website to see if I have met all the client requirements for the website. Firstly, I had to develop a multi-page website that will contain a minimum of five pages and provide digital games for my chosen target audience.
I can quite confidently say that I have met all the requirements as I have included 5 pages on my website which are full of detail about the games that I have chosen to review for my target audiences. My target audience is gamers of all ages, and I have supported my audience by reviewing games of different genres that have different age ratings. I have structured my website through a home page, 3 pages of different game genres, and a contacts page. Every page on my website is full of detail and maintains a consistent look across all pages. My website contains an appropriate navigation system. My navigation system follows the mesh structure navigation system. I have added a navigation bar to my master page and navigation buttons to each page so that the viewer of the website can navigate themselves around the website. My website contains a range of images which have been sourced from the Internet and I have personally edited all of these images as my own. I have used appropriate text as required and followed my own house style in order to do so. I have used many multimedia assets within my website such as videos, music, different types of rollovers, hyperlinks, HTML, and much more. I have used these multimedia assets as they are interactive and display the website in a professional manner. Assets such as music and videos provide the viewer of the website with more information about each game. Overall, I have given a short introduction to each game, explaining the basic outline and summing up the game based on its overall quality.
Furthermore, I have reviewed what platforms the game can be accessed through the introduction, and I have supported this by rating the platform availability using the star graphics. Platform availability is important because it informs the viewer of the website about the number of platforms and consoles the game can be accessed on. In addition, I have also rated the games based on gameplay and cost. I have chosen these 2 key points to accompany the platform availability because they are very significant. Rating the cost through star ratings is important as it gives the viewer of the website an estimate of the overall cost and is a persuasive method to get the viewer to buy the game. I have rated the overall gameplay also as it persuades the viewer of the website and informs them on how good the game really is. I have also followed my page plans.
My website could be further improved if I change my logo. This could be improved as it does not live up to the quality of the rest of the website. I created my logo myself through Microsoft PowerPoint and Fireworks. It does not look as professional as the rest of the website and could be improved by replacing it with another image. In addition, it could possibly be improved by shortening the introductory paragraphs to each of the games. There is possibly too much information and it can be shortened to be a more appealing display to the viewer of the website. Furthermore, it could also be improved by adding more music to the website. I have added 2 music files to my website and I have displayed the music through a web graphic using Web Plus. Music is an interactive asset and appeals to the viewer of the website, therefore, the addition of extra music can instantly impact my website to make it more of a higher quality.
If I was to start my website again as a completely new website, I would not use Serif WebPlus X7 as it crashed numerous amounts of time. This has had a large impact on my website as I have lost some time from developing and creating it. WebPlus also made my pages take quite a long to load up and was not loading up some images and text on my website. If I was to start the production of my website again, I would use another software instead of WebPlus as it would save me a lot of time and would allow me to create a more improved website than my current one. If I was to do this, I would meet all the requirements to a higher quality.