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Reflection of Lecture – New Media Landscape December 30, 2009

Keypoints mentioned by the speaker:

• Change of website trends – Due to the advancement of techonology and social networking on the internet, websites nowadays tend to use different ways of advertising themselves than before. Facebook, Twitter
• Coping with a variety of designs from client – Must be creative and at the same time responsible to deliver the projects to the clients on time, and with quality.
• Social media in website – By incoperating social media into websites, it is easier to generate more traffic as these social medias like twitter and facebook helps to attract more people to the website.
• Difference between a freelance website developer and website agency – The difference is that confidence can be placed on the agency for getting the job done by the deadline, while freelancers might not be able to submit projects on time.
• Money and time is needed to bring in traffic – Advertisement is needed to make a website popular. Either by paying others to advertise the website for you, or by doing it yourself, posting in forums which takes up a lot of itme.

Things that inspired me from this lecture:

• The variety of websites created by the speaker inspires me to be more creative
• To have a greater interest in web design and creation
• To have a job that I am interested in so that I’ll be able to enjoy it

It is useful to have a guest speaker who is able to share his experience in the industry of web design as we are able to know more about the industry, and how having a job like this is like.