I absolutely loved creating this website, assignment or not it was just an overall enjoyable experience. I honestly might come back to this website to something without constraint every now and again. There are definitely some improvements that could be made to the site I really wanted to give the entire home page a more horror aesthetic feel and maybe add some filter tags to each post in order to make them easier to access. Features like a horror trivia page and a forum of some type would have been interesting to add. Promoting on Twitter works fine and all but I think I could’ve done better promoting by asking some friends to make posts about the site as well, boosting the amount of people who will see it.
I did enjoy writing these posts from time to time, I’m very passionate about movies so writing about them isn’t too much of a chore for me. If I had to pick a favorite moment it would have to be creating the Nicolas Cage watchlist, I came up with the idea for it on the spot and it ended up being my favorite post. something like this blog could really help me in the future as a resume feature, something my employer can use to see my ability first hand. I think the most valuable tool in all this is learning to promote properly which I think will be a very important skill in my future.
The week of June first was my most traffic heavy with a total of nine visitors and eleven total views on my posts cumulative. My most popular post was the welcome post, which I guess makes sense since its pinned to front of the page and is always the first thing you see when you visit. I’m actually surprised I got any viewers, with only six followers on Twitter I really didn’t think my promotions would reach anybody. It has been fun to say the least but for right now, this is Jake signing off.
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