6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

QuarkXPress

For the whole of my magazine I used QuarkXPress to put it all together. For my contents page I was able to use lots of different tools to make my magazine seem more realistic, like being able to write sideways across the page. Also being able to write in columns made my double page spread a lot more realistic and made it look more professional. It took me a while to understand how all of QuarkXPress worked, as I found it quite confusing to start with, fortunately I quickly learnt how to add images and make my magazine come to life. Apart from the difficulty to start with I found QuarkXPress quite useful throughout the process of making my magazine.

Websites

Websites such as Facebook and Slideshare, were also very useful when doing my magazine. I used Facebook to be able to get my targeted audiences opinions and views on my magazine, by simply posting a couple of posts and my moodboard I was able to make sure what I was doing for my magazine is what my audience would be interested in and what they would like to see and buy. I used SlideShare towards the end of my project for my evaluation. After making a couple of powerpoints for my evaluation by putting them on slideshare I was easily able to embed them into my blog simply and quickly, this was very useful and a good website that I will be able to use in future presentations.

Blogger

I used Blogger.com as a way of keeping track everything that I had done throughout the project. By doing this it was easier for me to see what I had already done and it was easy to change if I had done something wrong. I believe it helped me present my work easily and clearly and it is a very useful website when it comes to doing projects like this one. An example of when it was useful was when I was starting my evaluation and needed to remind myself of distribution, as it was on my blog from when I previously researched it, it was easy to remind myself.

Picnik

When I took my pictures I used a Digital SLR camera, I am familiar with these cameras as I have one myself and photography is a hobby of mine. To edit my pictures I used a website called Picnik I used this website as I believe it is one of the best easy ways to edit pictures and I believe that this makes my pictures look a lot more effective. All of my pictures have been edited with this website.

I found that all of the new technologies that I have been using throughout this project have all been very relevant and very useful. I think that QuarkXPress was one of the most confusing desktop publishers that I have used, but after you got used to it, it was reasonably easy to understand and use. However, I would have preferred to have used something like photoshop to make my whole magazine, as I am much more confident with this programme.