REFLECTION FOR WEEK 10

On the tenth week for this course, our lecturer briefed us about our homepage again. We showed our lecturer our homepage. We wanted to be sure about the details that need to be in our pair homepage. My pair and me went through our homepage thoroughly as we wanted to do our best in designing our homepage. The homepage which we created was about cakes. We advertised cakes for our homepage. In order to give a good and clear picture of our bakery, we adjusted and make the advertisement to be interesting and we made all the information precise. We mix and match our homepage background colour in order to make it seem more interesting and to attract the customer’s attention.

  Our bakery sells all types of cakes ranging from different colours and different purposes. We have made it easy for the customer to know more about the types of cakes that we make by putting the pictures of the cakes and also by stating down the list of cakes that we make. To enhance the customer’s information regarding our bakery, we even provided contact information. With this, our customers will clearly see what types of cake that we sell and what makes it different from other bakery. In addition, we state our information accurately as this will increase our customer’s trust towards our bakery. Leo Burnett who was an executive and founder of the Leo Burnett Company Inc. has once said that “Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief”.

  Besides that, we also listened to lecture in class. The topic of our lecture was Writing for the Web. We learned about the best practices for writing for the web. I now know that we shoud always be positive in our statements. We also should not add to many information at our sentences. On the other hand, I also learned to use a conversational style in my writing. I realized that we should not make our sentences complicated by making the sentence unnecessarily hard to understand by beating around the bush. Simple sentences can make the readers understand way better than complicated sentences which will affect their understanding.  

 Paragraphs and sentences should always be kept short. There should also be titles and subtitles to make it seem neat and to make it precise. Moreover, vague titles such as “Holy Cow!” should not be used in writing. The titles should be written in a better way to show its preciseness. Therefore, vague titles should never be used at all. We should also set the right terms in our writing such as workplace term.