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.