Extra's & Webnode Review

To polish the website off, I have made use of a few extras.

I have embedded a Twitter profile into most pages, (barring What’s On?, Trailers and Coming Soon). To fill this profile up, I have created some recipes with “ifttt.com” to tweet out relavent news from IndieWire and my blogs on Webnode leading to thirty good content links in just two days.

On the footer of the What’s On?, Trailers and Coming Soon pages I have added a small google calendar with showtimes for the whole month in, for any google calendar user, (of which there are around 425 million users) to add to their Google Calendar.

At the bottom of every page to go with my site disclaimer I have added links to the Site Map, Home and RSS feeds with icons from this free to use icon set, a hit counter and a google translate list, to translate the website to almost any language possible. I have also set it to detect location and ask to translate automatically - this was an easy way to get around another premium feature Webnode offers and to acquire it for free.

I have also included social media buttons provided by Webnode to the bottom of every page.

All in all, I found Webnode not too bad. Although the usage of a template does restrict the user to a certain design, it does create a uniform look across the site and it can be edited with a little knowledge of HTML anyway.

The tools available in Webnode however left little to be desired, as I opted to embed different versions to cope with the outdated one’s used by the service. This can be seen in my use of Youtube, Maps, Translation and Wisepops. Their photo-gallery was good though, as you could use images hosted on the site itself. Given more time, I may have used a more attractive Flikr gallery, but for now it works beautifully.

The major gripe I have with the software however is the text editor. It is slow, poorly formatted and difficult to use. Having to go into the source code to change a paragraph marker to a line break should not occur in this day and age and it seriously needs work. I have written all my blogs in Google Drive and copied them in, as I could not use it productively.

Anyway, I hope the site is to your liking, and you like me, wish it was real now too!

I’ve enjoyed this task a lot and hope you carry it on into the future. At the bottom of this page I have inserted a link to my facebook instead of anything The Picturehouse related.