WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:

There are 5 different methods to building your own website, Free builders, Template Websites, WordPress Websites (blog/cms), Do-It-Yourself and Professional Web Design:

1. The Free Website Builders offer the ease of use (quick and easy), with minimal cost but sacrifice not only on quality…but also functionality. Meaning, you are very restricted to the type of content you can put on the website, as well as what you may like it to actually do.

2. By using a Template Website for the design of your website, you essentially cut a large portion of your cost. So you get pretty good quality, and the cost / time is really not that intestive. The only drawback on using template sites, is you will generally not have the knowledge to customize it to your needs.

3. Over 90% of the website I design are built using Wordpress as the CMS (Content Management System). Overall though, the WordPress websites are without a doubt the best middle of the road option you can choose.

4. Well, if you have the Time, but not the money and you are looking for something you can build yourself, and also develop a pretty handy skill set, then you might actually like Do It Yourself Web Design.

5. If you don't have the time to learn how to build a website, need to have the website to function a certain way or have a specific look…and you have a budget, then your like most small businesses, and will want to outsource the work, the best answer is a Professional Web Design.

For this first Assignment, I choose to build my personal web site in a "Do It Yourself Web Design" mode. I wanted to found something right in the middle between HTML and Wordpress. I started with Adobe Dreamweaver, because you see the code and design “live” at the same time. Then, I moved to Adobe Muse, although I had some experience with some Adobe products like InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, I found a little bit hard to get use to some procedures in Muse. I couldn't´t manage to understand how the image resolution works.