What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?



During this project I used and learnt about a lot of different technologies, these included Blogger, Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Excel. To take my images I used my Nikon D3100.

This was the first time that I had used Blogger. I found this an interesting experience; I think that because this is a free internet application there wasn’t as much control over how the blog looked, and how things were constructed on it. I began to develop problems with the fonts; the font kept changing as I was writing the posts. However, overall I think that it is a useful application and I think that with more practice using it (and designing the background) it would be easier to understand and use.

I think that Photoshop was really helpful during this project; I have used Photoshop previously so I know how to use most of the tools. To make my product I used tools such as text (including font, size, colour and shadow), brightness and contrast and desaturation. I think that I used these tools to good effect to make my final product. I found that the text tool was the hardest to use, this is because my text wasn’t fitting in the area that I wanted it to. To try and fix this I was transforming (Ctrl + T) the text and adjusting the size so that it would fit in the space that I wanted it to, however this meant that it wasn’t the same size as the rest of the font on the page. This made it look disorganised; to fix this I made all my font sizes smaller.

I used Excel to create my original questionnaire and to process my answers. I think that though this was an effective to use to do these things, however, it did mean that my participants were limited to people who were close to me. This meant that some of them liked the same things that I do and follow the same ideologies, which in turn meant that the questionnaire was not reliable.