UNIT 28 D2

Overall when concluding the overall effectiveness of my website it came to my attention that there were a few areas of which it could be improved as to make it more beneficial to the film club itself.

If I was to have the chance to once again improve the film clubs website again to make it benefit the film club I would do things like making it more accessible, such as making the links to access the rest of my site more obvious by making them bigger and putting an Ephesus on them thus making them a lot more visible to the user. By adding a sub-heading on the side panel and placing it with my buttons it can add to the user friendly interface and help those with limited I.T skills and make it more accessible.

On my trailer page I have put a trailer for each movie to make the users experience better allowing them to see a general look of a films style and critical response. This would allow the users to not need to use sites like YouTube to locate film trailers or related content. I could have also made the thumbnails of the films more visible and larger, as currently I use period movie posters. This would more clearly show what was on offer and help to create a more user-friendly environment. Within the reviews page I could have actually added reviews instead of simply adding links to sites that contained them, this would overall create a more professional site and a better experience for the user as they don’t have to site hop to get info.

For the films page I could of added pictures around the time table as in finished view it was a simple list and did not look professional or nice. This would allow the users to be more interested in each of the films on show. I could put more information on my home page allowing the user to know more about the film club. Making the first impression of the site a good one.

The way my page is set up allows it to be easily expanded upon and is simple to modify and add to, encase the website takes off and need to expand the option to edit and change things which would still allow it to function as it could allow the website to have a function which allows the user to search the movies by genre allowing it to be easily used or a simple drop down  menu which would act as a filter, this would be a great improvement if the website was to expand and be able to show more than 11 movies and make a better site with a plethora of useful information for users to access.