Option 2: Reflecting on what I have learned
I can say that everything is good so far in this semester. I have learned many things from setting up the DoOO website. I have benefitted from the practical, technical, and academic aspects of the course. The course was more about advertisements. Currently, technology is taking over the world in terms of how things are being operated. Modern advertisements need one to consider several factors such as customer specifications and preferences, competitors, and market segmentation among other factors. The course enabled me to understand that every aspect of the advertisement has meaning to the viewers. The colors, brightness, and sounds are crucial dimensions when it comes to advertisements. In this case, I will reflect on how I have benefitted from setting up the DoOO website practically, academically, and technically.
As the school’s requirement, it was necessary for every student to set up the DoOO website. Every student was required to go through several tutorials to get conversant with the good setting of the website. Through the tutorials, I could note down every important aspect that would help me not only in the course but also in the life outside academics. Since I was young, I always dreamt of working with the advertisement companies. In high school, I could spend my holidays trying to make different commercial contents. I have also failed several auditions because of a lack of knowledge of what is needed for good commercials. This course, therefore, helped me correct some of the minor mistakes I was previously doing. I was able to understand how the background colors, layout, and brightness are used for commercials. As I was researching, I was also able to understand the common terminologies in advertisements such as the content, layout, brightness, color, and the general theme.
Since the world today is like a global village because of the advancing technology, websites are becoming relevant. In this case, the company with a good website is likely to attract more customers than the one without. Through the websites, the business firms can advertise their products, create the center for buying and selling of the products, and make it easy to communicate with the clients. This means that those who know about creating a good website have a high probability of attracting many customers. For that matter, I took advantage of this course to get myself conversant with the basics of creating a good website.
Our website project was all about the advertisements. For that matter, we were to relate the website setting with modern digital advertisements. The instructor wanted every person to come up with a website that covers all the topics we had discussed in the class about the advertisements. Due to this, I ensured that i applied the color, theme, background, brightness, and a good layout to make it as attractive as possible. My website was about edible things such as chocolates and, therefore, I used white and chocolate color so that it would be relevant to the content. The website was also bright so that it would be simple to distinguish the different products. The background color of my website was color chocolate so that once a person logs on the website; he or she may understand what it is all about even before enquiring. Generally, I can say that I related all that we learned in class based on the advertisements to create a good website and help develop my skills and knowledge about setting up the website.
On the technical or practical knowledge, I understood many things about operating the computer application packages such as creating blogs, word, access, excel, and how to use the internet among others. I also understood the procedures of inserting the pictures, backgrounds, colors, and hyperlinks to the website. I also understood the procedures of decorating the website to make it attractive and relevant depending on the content. For now, I can start making a website from scratch and come up with a very good website. I was able to develop my skills in making websites and I was able to fulfill one of my long term dreams of becoming a marketer and content composer. I can now relate to creating a good advert using the website. The basic procedures which i cannot forget are registering the domain name, search the company that hosts the company, preparing the content, and then create the website. Through those four basic procedures, I was able to learn everything about website creating, and through the skills, I have now, I feel that I can handle any kind of website given time and materials.
Academically, creating the DoOO website has helped me master the basic concepts, and hence it will be easy for me to do the final exams. Through the research, I learned many things about content creation and hence expanded my thinking capacity. As a content writer, the course natured my career and hence made it easy for me to face the real world. I have also taken advantage of advancing technology to become relevant to the modern world. From the knowledge I got from creating the DoOO website, I will develop my business site. My website will focus on selling video and audio products. This means I will apply the basic concepts I learned from this course such as good background, application of brightness, good color, and considering the taste and preference of my customers. For that matter, I can say that the course has helped me develop my career.
From the reflection, it can be concluded that setting up of the DoOO website has helped me in academics, practical, technical, and also developing my future career. It was a nice thing to interact with the content since I feel like I have fulfilled my dream of becoming a content creator. I am looking forward to developing a very good website to use as an advertisement platform and also sell my content. I would like to thank my instructor for letting me know all the steps of making a good website and the important factors to consider.