Final Project

Project 3 turned out to be a success!
It wasn't until the peer review day that I realized our project is actually quite long and filled with a ton of information. Other groups had more simple sites that only had 4 or 5 extra pages, but since Mama's Cheesies has a lot of subgroups, being a clothing site, it was pretty lengthy. It made for a lot of work on our part, but didn't seem like too much the work was spread over the period of a few weeks.

I am very impressed with the final turnout. The website redesign is neat, organized, and pleasing to the eye because of color repetition, font repetition, and alignment of texts. The peer review was extremely helpful because of the advice we got regarding the titles- placing a green bar behind the title at the top of each page separates the title from the information on the page. Looking at it now looks so much neater. Before it was there, it felt like there was something missing from the page that I couldn't quite place my finger on... that's something I love about design work. The reader him/herself could not know exactly what it is that's wrong about a page, it just looks "weird", but once that aspect is there everything falls into place (especially with word alignment). When things are jumbled around, it's hard to tell exactly what the "job" of some text or a picture is.

Another important change we made after the peer review was taking out a separate contact page and just adding those few bits of information to the homepage, near the bottom. This is a lot more convenient to the shopper, who would want to have the contact information easy and accessible, because if you think about it, a telephone number and an email address are not things that you should need to look for.

I think it's safe to say that all this hard work really paid off.