Iweb Software Practice

Today I used iWeb for the first time and played around with some of the features that it has to offer, in doing so it has showed me the limitations that the software has and I can now redesign and think over any of the design ideas that I initially had. First of all I started by seeing how easy it was to include a picture on the page, it is incredibly easy to get an image on the webpage and it can be done in two ways. The first way to get an image on the page is by simply copying and pasting it from a source such as the internet, the second way is just as simple and it would be used if you were trying to get an image that you have saved onto the product, you would just open up the location where the image is saved and then just drag and drop it into the webpage. The second thing I tried doing with the software was embedding a video which was also relatively simple to do, on the right side of the page is a tool bar with a selection of widgets that you can place on the webpage and there is one specifically for adding YouTube videos. All that has to be done to add a video is drag the widget where you want it and then copy and paste the URL code in a box that appears on screen, after that the video will load itself up and the size can be altered as well as where it is positioned on the page. Shortly after adding the video I added some text to the webpage to see how accessible the options were, the options are very easy to navigate, however I did not see an option for text alignment which means it could become problematic if certain chunks of text need centring. A feature that I have commonly seen on band websites is the incorporation of a media player of some sort, it will often play a few select songs from the bands repertoire. I first tried including something like that on this webpage by adding a music file to the webpage but the problem with it is that it doesn't look like a sophisticated media player, so the only way I can think to get what I'm looking for is using the HTML widget, which is the last thing I added to the webpage. The HTML widget allows you to embed any item with a HTML code on the webpage so in this Instance I used a game to see if it would run smoothly and when I published the webpage it ran perfectly.

From my initial use with the software I think I may have to change some design features as the options I would like to include on the website are not able to be implemented with the software available to me.