Final Website

See The Infamous WOAG BUTTON!!!!!

Overall, this course allowed me to greatly touch up on the skills I already had with these elements (primarily Photoshop and Javascript) while also teaching me plenty about those I was less informed on (Illustrator and Animate). Regardless of any future application I may actually find and use for these programs, the ability to learn and adapt to new software is in and of itself an immensly valuable skill in the modern age.
Photoshop is an excellent image editing software, which is what I used to create the backgrounds of this website, along side the side-bar images. It's increadibly diverse array of editing tools made the creation of these images fantastically easy. I feel there's no question in saying that Photoshop is the clear MVP among the softwares explored in this class. It isn't only practical and useful in the field that this class focuses on, but is generally a vastly applicable tool in many walks of life.
While Photoshop is also great at producing icons and other similiar such images, Illustrator is significantly more specialized for such occasions, with the entirety of it's tool-base being focused on creating them. While it lacks many of Photoshop's editing options, it has greatly increased vector graphic options, making simple, and pleasing to look at elements a breeze to create. It was a no-brainer to use it to create the icons for this website.
I was already quite familiar with Javascript before this class, and while I find most of the uses explored in this class to be particularly niche, it is an incredibly versitile language, and has been used to create various interactable objects around this website. Like Photoshop, Javascript is widley applicable beyond this specific field, many of which I'm exploring outside of this course.
I have to be honest, as a professional artist and hobbiest animator, Adobe Animate is not my thing. While it offers a simplified and streamlined animating experience, I find it's simplicity to be rather restrictive. The only aspect of it I can respect is the integrated HTML support, but beyond that I dislike it greatly. I used it to make a short GIF for this webpage.
Overall, this course introduced and explored all 4 of the above topics to quite decent levels, and has definitely taught me more about all of them if nothing else. I still feel I will strictly use Photoshop and Javascript moving forward, however. Despite how simple Illustrator is to work with, for the rather fantastic results it produces, I find that it's limiting options deal a hit to it's usability that that standardized workflow just can't make up for for me. Adobe Animate is a similiar story. Despite the fact it makes certain animations much more simple to produce, and certainly can expedite such a process, it just doesn't hit all the right notes for me to substitiute it for my current option.
Even if I'm not going to be moving forward with Adobe Illustrate or Adobe Animate, knowing how to use both is certainly a valuable skill, and I'm glad I learnt them, and have been able to show them off here today, and over the course of the rest of the semester.