My IM Evaluation

My main intentions for this project were to create a working portfolio that reflects my personality. I wanted, my portfolio to be an extension of myself.
For the portfolio, i created a mood board to develop my ideas. Unfortunately the only part to transfer itself was the colour purple. I chose between two templates for the wire frame of the website. One would've been easier for me, but i didn't choose it. Instead i wanted a vertical navigational bar. To make this work, i had to float the boxes in different places. I did it quite well by myself, and Giselle remedied it for me.
Some problems i found were: floating the footer, padding the content image and reorganising the gallery. Solving the problem with the footer was simple, as Giselle helped me. How ever i do feel that i would have worked at it until it worked. For the content, i wanted a background picture, of scribbles, with overlying writing. However, i wanted the writing to be padded more than the picture. I unfortunately found out that the padding in the content affects both simultaneously. To counteract this i centred the writing  so i wouldn't touch the edges of the picture. I know know, that creating a separate div tag, to put the writing in, would've worked just as well. And last of all i found creating the gallery hard, as i wasn't there for the ooriginal lesson. But the main problem was afetr saving and adding the gallery, i didn't know how to access it again to add and change some of the images. I did try to access it many times, but to no avail. I left the gallery with only a few images, which is unfortunate.
I have learnt much more about Dreamweaver in this term than i had before. I've learnt how to create divs, classes. I  learnt how to change each one's settings appropriately.
If i was to re-do this project, i know i would make more pages for my animations, and a completely different gallery. I like the programme Adobe Bridge, but i don't like the layouts for the galleries. I would lighten the colourscheme, as i find it a bit too dark/pressing. Also, i would change my profile picture; it's terrible.