Permissions Difficulties

So throughout this last week: 4th of Jan to the 8th of Jan, I have tried to use the Filezilla client to upload my website and there were plenty difficulties for example the program I used during the Christmas holidays was a slightly different version and when I saved it, it was a a different format which filezilla had trouble trying to figure out. However yesterday, I managed to get all 12 pages onto the site however the images were not showing up. So after a lot of research online I then overwrite the permissions on filezilla to 777 which managed to then successfully upload my images onto the site. So now everything has been transferred online.

Photoshop

I watched a few YouTube tutorials on Photoshop and particularly in how to remove white from the pics to make it look transparent and a little more neater;

This video was very useful as I had a couple of pictures I wanted to get rid of the white for my website so I used this and managed to get about 99% of the white from pics.

Difficulties- Part 2

So the other major difficulties I encountered with this website is the fact that when I press preview in say Firefox or Google Chrome, sometimes the drop-down menu doesn't align. For example;

So I tried to search on google as to why this would happen as it doesn't happen all the time, just sometimes when I open it up, and it said to reload the page so once reloaded, the page is back to normal and everything is aligned which is odd. I still haven't found a solution for that other than to reload the page if it does do that, as as I mentioned before, it sometimes happens, sometimes it doesn't which is rather odd.

Moving from Pictures to Semi-Transparent Background

Half of my website is with images as the background such as these;

These pictures were hard to use behind the font I used for each of the page, so I decided to put in some semi-transparent backgrounds such as these;

These backgrounds are quite good in my opinion as they are still bright and eye-catching however the audience will be able to see the font better because of these backgrounds, I thought it would also be more fun to have different sorts of backgrounds as opposed to just one type of background as that is boring and the audience would be deterred.

Difficulties- Part 1

Throughout the progress of this website, there have been a few difficulties which I have overcome, one the major difficulties was choosing an image as a background for each for each page, that would complement the colour of the font, however the pics that I chose for each of the background were quite strong colours and combined with the brightness of the text, it sometimes didn't really show up, so I did my best to pick some images that worked quite well the colours of the font, however, towards the end of the pages i.e Intermediate and Advanced pages, I changed the pics to semi-transparent backgrounds so the audience can read the font.

Videos

I did have the idea to put a video of 'native speakers' to introduce themselves onto my site if anybody wanted to contact them to talk in a more casual yet proficient way of learning the language. However, videoing and editing never came to fruition but there is a video below that completely envisions what I had in mind if this idea did come to actualisation;

Testmoz

I found this site called TestMoz which is a test generator, I did make one up and completed it as an added extra for the audience to use it to find out what level they are to help them get all the information they need to improve their learning of the language.