Looking at Making a Website

When looking into the possible free sign-up sites we could use to create our film's website, one that particularly caught our eye was Google Sites. We realised that it would be fairly simple and also due to being linked with Google, it would be a trustworthy site for us to sign-up to. After we created some sample sites to learn how to use it, we realised that with some practise it could be a possibility for our own site.

Here is a link to the Google Sites homepage: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2F&service=jotspot&ul=1

Along with our research, we also found other possibilities for creating our website, but ruled them out for various reasons such as sign-up fees and difficulty to use. Some websites even offered to create the whole website at a price. Here are some of the sites that we came across:

• http://www.weebly.com/
• http://www.wix.com/
• http://www.webeden.co.uk/
• http://www.magix-online.com/uk/website_maker.1527.html

After we began to experiment with Google Sites some more, we found difficulties with certain areas of it, and also realised that some sites could look rather blog-like. We realised that if we wanted to create a more professional looking promotional site for our film we would need to find another option. We decided that it may be better for us to use a programme that we were slightly familiar with and for this reason, we turned to Macromedia Dreamweaver which we have used in the past to create websites in other classes, although only at GCSE level. As we already had some background knowledge on this programme, we would be able to learn to use it more effectively to create a cohesive and professional looking website as we experimented.