Protopage Experiment

During the last lesson we experimented, as a class, with protopage. As a part of our Multimedia Assessment Task, we had to evaluate all the websites for their versatility, ease of use and collaboration. Since I was working individually, it wasn't necessary for me to evaluate the collaboration.

Here is a brief rundown on Protopage and all the things that we did. If you were to click on Colours/ Settings on the top right-hand corner of your page, you will be able to change the colour of your widget content, text, your background colour and design and texture.

The home page allows you to create new tabs to organise your information and you have to ability to change the colour of the text box.

I also created a sticky note under one of my tabs. I clicked on 'Add Widget' and then clicked on 'Sticky Note' which resulted in my ability to quickly create a tip. If I were to add some last minute information on my webiste, the sticky note would be efficient because it is created in an instant. I also added a youtube video by clicking on 'HTML/ Rick Text Sticky Note' and embedding a youtube video. I had an interesting experience and enjoyed mysely immensely as the features of the website were fun to play around with.

 

Protopage was an interesting website which was fairly efficient and effective. It allowed me to post images, text, videos (from Youtube), new tabs or separate sections to suit my purposes and change the colours and backgrounds according to my preference. It was a fairly straightforward website, once I was aware of where to go to perform a particular action or operation. I had to be slightly guided in order to know what to do but after that it was pretty simple. Also, the tabs make it easier for me to organise all my information so I know what I'm doing. However, what bothered me about this website was that it didn't have much and it was too ordinary. For a quick presentation it's fairly efficient but I was looking for something more interesting and engaging for the audience. As for collaboration, I didn't actually experiment with it but I was told that two or more people could work on different aspects of the site at the same time.

Overall, this was quite an efficient and interesting website, however, it didn't suit my purposes and I thought I could find something slightly better. I hope to experiment with the Wix program next and evaluate that.