Production Assignment Rationale
My Website: F1 Future The website I created was made using notepad and my knowledge of HTML and CSS. In a sort of relation to my blog's theme, the website affair was Formula One racing and the changes it has and will make. The main idea being "Formula One, going green". All my code was written in notepad, with the images being created in photoshop. Although rather simple, the website is supposed to be informative and give links to outer references. The layout is based on div design. There is one giant div containing all the other divs, with two larger divs separating the left from the right. Padding and auto margins are used to keep the divs neat and the website functioning properly. Certain links within the website load the current page, while external links open up a new tab. Links that load over the top of the website you're currently viewing is a pet peeve of mine so I was sure that wouldn't happen to something I've created. All the information I gathered for this task was found on mainly news websites, so their layout and design was nothing over the top, just a title with a wall of informative text. Straying too far from this idea would give people the wrong idea about the intentions of my website. Not that it's just another website about Formula One, but that's it's there to give the reader a deeper understanding of the topic and a starting point from which they can move off and start learning more about it. Not only did I view news websites, but the official Formula One and FIA websites. This helped me in gaining precious material for my informative reference page. Hosting the website was a different thing entirely. A free web host had to be found, the best I found being $0.00 web hosting. Giving me a fair amount of bandwidth for the amount of data I had, plus the ability to edit my files on their database. Hopefully the company keeps its profitable position in the world for the sake of themselves and my website. Whether or not this website will be crawled is a different thing. Although it is linked via my blog and back again, so perhaps the network I've entered at the moment find it informative and share it around. As a website convention, mine follows it simply yet well enough to not have to go off on a crazy new age tangent. Personally, I believe the colours and lack of images to be aesthetically boring, but it's reminiscent of an earlier time for websites. I love that everything works and not overloading on code means it will continue to work. No bug outs or glitches in those thousand lines of code. I also used an external style sheet meaning changes are easy to make. My website could almost be seen as a combination of related works all in the one easy place to see and read. The external references then make for an excellent gathering garden of resources. What I can hope for is for it to not go totally unnoticed in the large world that is the internet.
