Objective 3 – ‘Make a page on one aircraft in detail with at least 5 facts’ I did meet this objective but I faced a problem when designing. I felt it would be more appropriate to appeal to a wider audience by including two aircraft that were very different. This would then, hopefully appeal to more people. I still included 5 facts about the aircraft such as capacity and weight. I used animated images to show the aircraft in a variety of different situations.
Objective 4 ‘ Create an article with no errors, factual or grammatical’ to prevent factual errors I checked all facts and double-checked. I was successful in making sure that to my knowledge all the facts included were true. Grammatical errors were resolved by using the spell checker on all the text files, this proved successful in spotting a number of files that otherwise would have made a number of spelling errors or words that were inappropriate and accidentally typed. This was applied to all of my articles and text.
Objective 5 ‘Have a full functional website with no dead links’ The test plan I set up earlier specifically targeted this problem and by using a marked out plan I was able to ensure all links worked correctly. Although initially I had problems with external linking as when I typed in an URL, it wanted to link it to files within the directory, which did not always exist, as they were links to external sites. This was overcome by hyper linking to external sites. Not using the box to type in a link, which was intended for use of internal linking. Therefore overcoming the problem and satisfying the objective.
Objective 6 ‘Include 3 links to major aviation related sites’ this was relatively easy to solve and faced no problems. I created a links page in which I listed more than 3 sites that were aviation related and receive in excess of 1000 hits per day. Such as Pprune the pilot rumour network.
User comments
I requested that the users make a judgment on the final outcome of the website and they were recorded below –
“ Everything worked correctly and as it should, but at times it is lacking that extra quality for detail. The Flash movie was a good idea and kept things news but it looped repeatedly and had no loading bar or start stop, sound on off button. Which makes the site seem less professional. Also one major flaw, there are no contact details!”
D.Birch
“ The picture quality sometimes didn’t seem as good as you would expect making the site look as attractive and colourful. The site was clear, could have used more pictures or had more pages. There was not enough content as one would expect from a aviation site.”
Andrew B.
“The overall finish is quite plain but it works, the images sometime seem pixilated, the movie could have been timed more effectively the writing goes too quickly making it difficult to read. Also the banner’s writing doesn’t blend with it suitably making it look out of place”
Steven P.
The future
In the future, I would like to develop the site further taking into consideration the advice given. If I did develop the site further I would do the following things.
- Insert start and stop buttons for any flash movies, adding professionalism.
- Use the highest quality when exporting flash images, ensuring they are of adequate quality and not pixilated.
- Expand the site including more categories such as a forum, shop, and gallery with a few pages on the latest news with various articles.
- Include contact details somewhere on the site.
- Ensure flash movies are timed appropriately using the time more wisely.
- Rework the banner, using writing which is ‘engraved’ into the banner creating a more attractive and relaxed looking site.
