Over the past week I have been trying to correct the issues that had been noticed following my release of the first draft. I had my fully coded piece on wix and working and I decided that I would send the link out just to my class so that if there were any major issues only a few people would see them and also so that I could get feedback from other people in the industry. Despite me knowing the piece worked on PC I hadn't thought about how it would work on phones and that is where the main issue was as most people wanted to view the piece using their phone however it wasn't working properly. I decided to view the piece on my own phone to see what the issues were, the piece had been re formatted which I had expected as a phone is a smaller screen but the main issue was actually getting the videos to play. What I have now found out is that phones can only play one video at a time so playing nine at the same time was looking impossible.
I took a break from the project for a few days as I was feeling disheartened and took some time to have a think about how I could fix the issues. I had spoken to my teacher who said it may have to be a PC only piece however I didn't want to limit my audience so I had a think about other ways I could try to get this project to work on phones. I decided to see what effect embedding the code into a website would have and I found a free website hoster called Zyro. I realised there was no place to put HTML code into this website builder but you could add video links and you could move the videos around and place them wherever you wanted to. I set up the three by three grid to look how I wanted it to and found that the video settings this website builder had allowed me to have the videos auto play and loop which is just what I wanted. I was starting to feel positive like this might be an answer to the issues I had been having, because this was a website builder it also allowed me to give the piece a title and a little introduction as well as adding my contact details to make the whole thing feel more professional. I had however got carried away and forgotten about how this was going to work on phones again. They builder has a section where you can see what the site will look like on a phone and despite the formatting changes like I had before and are to be expected I was hopeful that the piece might still work on phones. I sent my self a link to the site and viewed it on my phone and although everything around the piece looks more professional now the videos still don't play all at the same time. The issue comes from the fact that you have to click on a video and bring it up in full screen to view it on a phone so it's impossible to view more than one video at a time. This means my piece won't ever be able to be viewed properly on a phone which is disappointing but there isn't a way around it, I have added a disclaimer at the bottom of the introduction saying the piece doesn't work properly on phones but that way people still have the chance to watch the individual videos if they wish. It wasn't a complete waste of time putting the videos into a website builder though as the piece now looks more professional as a whole. I did come across a little issue with the looping of the videos not always working but I am confident that I will be able to fix that and if not I have my back up piece on here.
How the site looks on phones
How the site should look
Website Link: https://howisee.zyrosite.com/
I should also probably note that due to these issues I only had one completed feedback form sent back to me so there isn't anything to write up when it comes to results yet.
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