Diane College

I am pleased with the website that I have created, and I believe that it meets the assignment brief. I have created a website for a fictional company called Chicken Inn, encorporating a restaurant and hotel. The website also contains directions to the Inn.

I am pleased with the colour scheme that I chose as the reds, oranges and yellows emulate the firey theme of flame-grilled chicken which I was hoping for. The images that I have chosen add detail to the text, and there is a booking form too.

The validation on the booking form is working, although when the user clicks on the submit button, an error message comes ups highlight an unknown URL. This is because I haven’t included a destination email address within the code as the website is fictitious.

In retrospect I could have been a bit more creative with the layout of some of the pictures in the website, but in all I am happy with the layout and the final site.

When uploading files to a host to create a website it is important to bear in mind security and copyright issues relating to the material. When using images and sound/video clips it is important to ensure that you have permission of the person/persons who created the media, or that you are able to use the image without it being illegal. Sources should be referenced where applicable.

It is also important to remember that people visiting the website might try and use the media, or reproduce text contained within it so it is important to put a disclaimer on highlighting what they can and can’t reproduce. If people reproduce media that has been copyrighted, or copyrighted media is used without permisson, then the person doing so would be breaking the law.

It is the responsibility of the person uploading the website to the server, and not the server, to ensure that copyright law is not broken or infringed upon.

When uploading files to a web server one should also give consideration to server security. This is to protect the site from people hacking into it and changing or stealing data, or as a method of hacking into files. If a website just contains infomration pages, HTTP will be sufficient.

If the website that you are uploading is an ecommerce site, or one which involves customers transmitting personal/payment details, you should ensure that data transferred between the server and the website users is encrypted, and that the server has a recognised encryption method. A SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate is an example of a well-recognised encryption method whereby transmitted data is broken down and encrypted at several points during the data transfer, and each time is given a unique key. The data is then reassembled by un-coding the keys.

In accordance with the Data Protection Act it is important to remembet that you are responsible for looking after personal data that people transmit to you, so it is important that security is in place to protect yourself and users of the website.

The server should also have a robust firewall and anti-virus software in place to protect and prevent the spread of viruses and hackers.

As mentioned previously I had a few difficulties once I had uploaded my website, and had to adjust the file size so that the image was visible.

When I tried to use the website I realised that my hyperlinks weren’t woking and had to go back into Front Page and rectify the problem. I realised that this was due to 2 problems; the first was that I hadn’t created hyperlinks between each link and it’s corresponding page. To resolve this I went to each link and ensured that it linked to the correct page.

The second problem that I had was that when I was creating the website I had initially started to create a home page and saved it under the filename home.htm, however I abandonned this prior to the final version. There were no links in the version.

The final version of the page was saved under the filename index.htm. I forgot this and orginally tried to hyperlink the home link to the page home.htm. When I went to edit the links I realised this mistake and changed the links to the correct filename, deleting the redundant version. The website then worked.

The reason that I chose geocities to upload my website is that is was simple to use. I have previously created a website and uploaded and hosted it using 100webspace.com. I had difficulties using this to upload my website due to the way in which I had organised the folders containing text and pictures. This made the process difficult and took a long time as I had to edit the html code and change some of the file names so that images were recognised.

I found geocities as it is a service offered by my email/ISP. The service was very easy to use as my email address meant that I already had a user account. I logged onto geocities and all I had to do was browse for my files, and click open. Due to the problems I hade encountered previously I saved all files relating to the website in one folder. I appreciate that with a larger and more complex website this would not be a feasible way of file management and that it would be beter to create folders for different web pages.

Once I had selected all the files and clicked on upload, they were uploaded and my website worked instantly. This was really easy to do and took less than 5 minutes. I would recommend this service due to its ease-of-use.

I craeted a screenshot of the foldes which I used but have been unable to upload them due to file size. Therefore I have emailed them to the assessor.

Having completed my website, it can now be accessed at www.geocities.com/madwife666

To upload the website, I used a free host through yahoo, called geocities. I was unable to upload this file due to file size limits so have emailec it to my assessor.

When I was uploading my website I encountered 2 problems. The first was that there was no background visible (the background was a jpeg picture). When I checked the file properties I realised that the image was too big and this was why it wasn't displaying. Once I had resized, saved and uploaded the image the background was visible on each page.

The second difficulty was that when I clicked on some of my hyperlinks, an error message appeared saying the website didn't exist. I went back into Front Page and realised that some of my pages were linked incorrectly. I edited these and saved the changes and re-uploaded them. My website now works effectively.

Overall I am very pleased with my website.

Once I had decided on the theme of my website I then began to create my website. Initially I used notepad to write HTML code for my website, but encountered some difficulties with sizing my tables. Therefore I decided to use front page to create my website as I found it easier to manipulate tables using this package.

I created a 6 page website but have been unable to upload these due to file size limits so have only been able to upload the first 2 pages.

Having created a mood board and decided on the theme for my website I created a storyboard as a basis for the sight.

Having carried out research I then used my findings to create a mood board for my website.

I have attached the research that I carried out on Country Inns.