Index Evaluation and Revision

One of our first projects of the year was to create an Index, or home page for ourselves that would link to other pages that are about us or that we make. Without an entire summer of web design class, needless to say things were pretty first.

Here is my first index page:

Featuring a picture I took of myself with a spacey background and links covering the entire page was a nice idea, but it proved to be hard to make responsive. The contrast between the links and the background was misleading and this site overall needed work, which I realized when I got my feedback form my peers.

Here is my current index page:

Sporting a much more professional look, as well as being much simpler, I am much more proud of this site than my first one. One of the main suggestions that my peers made was to make sure that my site was responsive, and now I can say that this site is fully responsive which is wonderful. Everything is still readable in any size window. I also hyped up the contrast level with a classic black and white scheme. The main art work is also by Daehyun Kim which I really think represents me as well as tying my entire website together. 

The hardest part about giving others constructive feedback is making sure that my classmates didn't get offended, and effectively communicating what needed changes without seeing the code. To improve the quality of my feedback I would probably view their pages in Chrome to inspect the code and look at each page with an open mind to try to see where their ideas came from and how I could help them to properly display those. All the feedback I received was useful for me because the changes that my peers suggested, were changes that I needed to make. I think that receiving a different perspective on your projects is very helpful because it allows you to see how an actual user feels about your site which is important since you are making the website for your user, not yourself.