Week 5

This stuff scares me! So this week we jumped into the world of site design and web payments. Site design is interesting – I still have no clue what I’m doing, but it has been fun looking at sites and seeing what things are working and what things aren’t. I have been more aware of colors, design, complexity, simplicity, pictures, videos, tabs, etc. I have found things I don’t care for, and things I love. We also learned about Paypal buttons. Who knew there were so many different structures?! I am planning on selling friendship bracelets (see, that is solid mommy-ness! I can have my girls help me make them and then I’m killing two birds with one stone – is it still okay to say that? … I’m getting my assignment done and spending time with the cool little people in my life.) So as I was putting together my buttons, the questions started stirring … do I insert color options, length options, style options? If I do color options that would be a whole heck of a lot of options to insert into the button. Style options in the button might not be best because the consumer would want to see the style not just read the styles. Most people could visualize length, so I went with the length as the option in the button. I will have to give several colors to the various styles and then allow for the length to be the option the consumer chooses from. AHHH!! I feel a bit like “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”! But I got news for you fear and trepidation – I’m old and I’m learning (albeit slow)! So take that!