For our final group project my group decided to create a website about China. The website was done in a blog post or article style where we had the homepage with different posts about various topics relating to China. Different topics we included were: music and television, fashion, traditions, philosophies, food, and history. We thought it was a good idea to have a wide range of topics all in one centralized page.
This would allow people who visit the site to have easy access to a multitude of topics, so that they could get a flavor of everything that China has to offer. On my portion, the historical aspect, I used a lot of hyperlinks within my post to link to my various sources. I found that when searching for Chinese dynasties and history overall, there were plenty of sources which had similar/accurate information. Some websites were harder to read so I chose the sites which were the easiest to understand.
We chose Wix to build our website, which has a free service allowing people to bypass writing their own HTML code which can get complicated. There were a couple downsides to using Wix including moving images and formatting in general. While we couldn’t get the website to look exactly like we envisioned it was still good enough for using a completely free service. Working in our group was fun since each person was able to work independently on their own post, allowing for us to focus in on our varying interests on China.
I thoroughly enjoyed the group project and thought it helped bring a lot of information together on the class. I wish that we had more projects like this throughout the semester because it not only helped build our knowledge for the class topics but also allowed us to interact with each other more than just in class.