Throughout this semester, I had the wonderful opportunity to make this website and utilize it to learn many different aspects of building a good website. I know in the beginning of the year I wanted to incorporate quizzes and more interactive things, however, I have not included any of those things. Having more interactive options would definitely be something that I wish that I would have added within each of my posts.
I mainly used Twitter to promote all my blog posts, however I should have used other social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, among many others. I could even have told my friends and family about blog and encourage them to share it with others.
My best experience of this semester-long project was learning about all of these cool places and talking to other students about any unique places that they knew. I loved talking to other people, whether it was for a MakerSpace interview or a The Wittliff Collections interview, I enjoyed it all.
By doing this project, I have found the enjoyment of making websites. I now consider it something that I could potentially see myself doing for a living. In the past, many of the websites that I made were not as creative as this one, but had more of a structure. With this project, my creativity flowed, and I got to really explore the different types of posts and elements that I could add to enhance a user’s experience. I also think that I have gained so much knowledge that will be useful for the next time that I am building a website!
Now that I have gained all this knowledge of the mechanics of website building, I can confidently put that on my resume for any future jobs or positions that I will be interested in. I also feel that with the skills that I have, that I am comfortable in freelancing for some other people!
My most popular week probably my first week, I got about 127 views and around 40 visitors. Also, my first post was also my most popular post within the semester with about 70 views. I think that it was my most viewed post because it was one of the first tweets that I made on my nonactive Twitter account. Although I didn’t get any likes or retweets on the majority of my promotions, I think many people were curious. Also, my mom being a proud mom, she posted my blog to her facebook and I assume that many of her friends took interest in my posts.
I don’t think that within my data there was anything that was surprising about my data in particular, but I was interested about the amount of people who visit a cite, but do not stay on it.
I know that I had posted my blog post on my snapchat and my instagram. I don’t know exactly how many people took action after seeing it, but I do know that I got over 400 views combined from them both.
A part of me is a bit sad that this semester and project is coming to an end, but it also brings me excitement that I know so much more now than when I started. I am looking forward to my future projects that I will be involved in. I am beyond thankful for this project, it truly gave me a great foundation to start my new hobby of making websites!
Eat ‘Em Up Cats!!