The title of my Website is Lauren's Dating Tips. I had alot of difficulty deciding on the name of my website, as it consists mostly of my work and research that I am doing for my print assessment. I wanted the title to involve my name, I also however wanted it to tell a reader exactly what the website involved.
I felt that Lauren's Dating Tips was appropriate as it not only personalised the site but also involved both the dating aspect as well as the fashion aspect of the site.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Website Design
The first step in creating my website was to decide how I wanted the basic layout. As I have said I wanted my design to be very simple and easy to navigate around, so I decided the best layout for my page would be quite a basic one with a banner and a column on the right hand side of the page with the main content of the page on the left hand side. I liked this simple layout and felt it was clear and easy to read. I decided that I would have the same basic layout for every page on my site.
The colours I decided to use were basic black and white. I thought this would make my site bold as well as being easy to read. From my own experience I felt that websites with too much colour can be difficult to concentrate on, such as heatworld. I wanted to avoid this when designing my site.
The colours I decided to use were basic black and white. I thought this would make my site bold as well as being easy to read. From my own experience I felt that websites with too much colour can be difficult to concentrate on, such as heatworld. I wanted to avoid this when designing my site.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Design and Navigation
My initial thought when designing my website and the navigation around was to keep my website simple. My target audience would be women aged between 15 and 35 who would be interested to read about dating and fashion. I would target women on breaks from work who don't have a long time to navigate around a difficult site.
I thought, because of my own experience and that of my friends, that menu buttons that were clear and concise would be the best way to navigate around my website. These menu buttons would link directly to other pages as well as back to the home page so that the reader would not have to go back through all the other pages if they wanted to get somewhere else. All of the pages on my site lead directly back to the home page.
It was also very imortant that my navigation was thoroughly thought out and simple. Below is a rough idea of how I planned my website navigation. I wanted all of my pages to naturally follow on from the one before, and thought that my plan acheived this successfully.
I thought, because of my own experience and that of my friends, that menu buttons that were clear and concise would be the best way to navigate around my website. These menu buttons would link directly to other pages as well as back to the home page so that the reader would not have to go back through all the other pages if they wanted to get somewhere else. All of the pages on my site lead directly back to the home page.
It was also very imortant that my navigation was thoroughly thought out and simple. Below is a rough idea of how I planned my website navigation. I wanted all of my pages to naturally follow on from the one before, and thought that my plan acheived this successfully.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Initial Website Idea
In today's class we started to develop the ideas that we have had in order to turn them into something that can be a successful website.
I decided to use the idea from my Print feature so that my website would showcase other work that I have done on the course. I decided to use my print feature as I have developed an idea which I am enjoying working on and I have a lot of research which will not be involved in the end feature; however I felt that this research would still be interesting for a reader.
My feature is all about internet dating. I intend to use an internet dating site to investigate how safe they are and whether they are a good way to meet someone. I have interviewed a woman who was married shortly after meeting someone on the internet and someone who would never consider using the internet in order to meet a partner.
I thought that my research into my own experience on a dating website would make an interesting diary for my website, and could show people in more detail, and on a day to day basis, how the site worked.
I also wanted to involve the interviews that I have done as in my feature they are going to be cut down significantly to be sidebars rather than full length profiles.
I am also involving a sidebar of statistics in my print feature and I felt that more details on my website would also be interesting.
Another part of our assessment criteria is to do a feature that is totally separate from any work that we have previously done. However, when considering what I would do as a feature I decided that I wanted to incorporate it in someway with the content of my website, rather than having a completely random piece of work. Therefore I thought that I could incorporate the dating theme and involve a feature about fashion, and what a woman can wear when she goes out on a date.
I decided to use the idea from my Print feature so that my website would showcase other work that I have done on the course. I decided to use my print feature as I have developed an idea which I am enjoying working on and I have a lot of research which will not be involved in the end feature; however I felt that this research would still be interesting for a reader.
My feature is all about internet dating. I intend to use an internet dating site to investigate how safe they are and whether they are a good way to meet someone. I have interviewed a woman who was married shortly after meeting someone on the internet and someone who would never consider using the internet in order to meet a partner.
I thought that my research into my own experience on a dating website would make an interesting diary for my website, and could show people in more detail, and on a day to day basis, how the site worked.
I also wanted to involve the interviews that I have done as in my feature they are going to be cut down significantly to be sidebars rather than full length profiles.
I am also involving a sidebar of statistics in my print feature and I felt that more details on my website would also be interesting.
Another part of our assessment criteria is to do a feature that is totally separate from any work that we have previously done. However, when considering what I would do as a feature I decided that I wanted to incorporate it in someway with the content of my website, rather than having a completely random piece of work. Therefore I thought that I could incorporate the dating theme and involve a feature about fashion, and what a woman can wear when she goes out on a date.
Welcome!
Welcome to Lauren's Website Blog.
This blog is to show how I have developed my online assessment blog, why I made the decisions i did, and what I did in order to achieve this.
The blog will involve information on design and content as well as the steps i took whilst developing my work.
Hopefully this blog will help people to understand a little better all of the workings on my website and why they make sense within the website as a whole.
This blog is to show how I have developed my online assessment blog, why I made the decisions i did, and what I did in order to achieve this.
The blog will involve information on design and content as well as the steps i took whilst developing my work.
Hopefully this blog will help people to understand a little better all of the workings on my website and why they make sense within the website as a whole.
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