I have grown up to realize that people are often more critical of themselves then others. That being said, it is easy to understand why I look at my website design, and feel disappointed. I find it to be easy to use and follow, but it is lacking the creativity I had hoped for in several areas. I think that the ideas are solid, but they were not executed to their fullest potential. For example, the homepage of Bryler Communications started out as I had hoped. I searched for hours trying to find out how I could include tab links for my site that would make it easy to navigate back to any page at any point in time. But the pictures I wanted to incorporate to imply the company standards were not formatting as I had hoped, and instead made the page look cluttered. The crisp design I had strived for began to look very scrapbook like, and it seemed like there was no turning back. I can not blame my abilities for this problem because I knew when I started this class that my lack of programming skills would affect what I could and could not do. I blame my design malfunctions on my stubbornness. Instead of accepting my limitations, and creating a design off what I knew I could incorporate I instead kept my original vision, and struggled to achieve it.

The Pages I am most proud of are the marketing campaign link pages. Mainly because I designed the graphics on the one page, and thought up an entire ad campaign for Nike. Those two pages represent what I want to do with my life, and I feel they are both great marketing concepts that would grab the consumer’s attention. Of course I still think that these pages like all of the others still needs work. I would love to have had a video of a women walking, which then faded into a man jogging, which faded into a woman and a man competing against each other in hurtles. I think that the transition would have helped show have everyone is Nike, no matter how they wear it.

My advice based on what I have learned is be realistic. If you set your goals at an average level and work hard then it will be easy to bust your goals. By setting your standards at a level that is impossible for a knowledgeable computer programmer to meet in the allotted time frame will only set you up for disappointment. Also make sure that the site is easy to navigate. There needs to be a way to return to all of the main pages via each page. No one wants to have to constantly hit the back button to navigate through your site. Also make you purpose clear from the get go. There needs to be a clear understanding of what is going on, on each page that is clear and to the point. Do not bog down pages with text because no one will read it. Believe me, think about the last time you read through a sheets worth of text on a webpage. And lastly change pages up. Do not leave the same background on every page. There is something to be said for unity, but try to do it without being monotonous and boring. Perhaps you maintain the same design in the background, but alter the colors. Just make sure that each page has something eye catching that forces people to read further.