30th November - Final deadline/ Finish unit
16th October - planning and client research
13th November - construction of final website
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
LO2 Planning a multi page website - audience
The audience of Small Machine Toys would be aimed at both girls and boys but mostly boys as boys are more interested in wooden toys with girls being more interested in playing with dolls. The age of children who would play with the toys would be around the age of 5 to 11 with ages above starting to get into bigger toys and technology. The location of these who would play with the toys would be from the city where they can get them from the toy store. They would be A,B,C,C1 as they will have a disposable income which they can spend on toys.
LO2 Planning a multi page website - Purpose
Small Machine Toys
The purpose of the Small Machine Toys website is that it allows the user to see what is on offer with pictures and information about the wooden toys on offer and it doesn't just give you a variety of pictures but it also shows the prices so the user can decide to spend that or save up with there being news about any up coming products or products which have an offer on them. It also allows the user to find further information like if the product can be delivered to there house, how long it will take and how much it will cost to deliver or if they can pick it up at the store. The user can also find a contact number, email and address so they can ask any questions they may have.
LO2 - Starter
Brief
Small Machines – promotional website for ‘Small
Machines’ range of wooden toy kits.
What types of content might be on the website you have chosen to make?
- Wooden toy kits for sale / pictures
- Banners with special offers
- Previous Work
- Testimonies from previous customers
- Information about the toy kits and why you should buy it / How they're made
- Login to register to purchase them
- Toys being used / pictures of people playing with them
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
LO1 Task 2; Wikipedia
Purpose - The purpose of Wikipedia is to provide users with information about people who are mostly famous like Will Smith with a profile about him, his history and his life. It gives you information about different places like Balch Creek with facts like "It's a 3.5 mile tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S state of Oregon". The information is not always reliable but a lot of it is with people being allowed to edit what the page says if they have something to add. If information isn't correct people can report the page so it can be removed by the people who moderate the site.
Visitor Needs - The Visitor needs of Wikipedia is aimed at everyone who has or can use a computer with their being information on just about anything with it going into detail about certain people and how they ended up where they're and if they're an actor which films they have been in. The information on a lot of pages is aimed at younger people with the information being delivered as being quite simple with pictures and short sentences but some pages have almost no pictures and complicated sentences which are aimed at older people. The visitor would want to be able to quickly access a variety of different information which isn't just filled with complicated text it should be easy to read with pictures to look at which makes it more appealing and makes people want to actually read the page.
C) Information Flow – The Wikipedia website
makes it easy for the users the navigate around the site with a lot of the
words being hyperlinked to take you to different pages but whichever page you
end up on the logo is always displayed at the top left which when clicked will
bring you back to the Wikipedia home page so you can always go bar and the
search bar is displayed at the top on every page so you can search for as many
things as you need. The account login is displayed at the very top, which will
come up on every page so you don’t have to go to the home page just to login,
which makes it easier for users. Under the logo on the left there are many
links to help you like every language you can change it to being displayed and
once clicked it changes every page to that language till you click it back to
another there are also helpful tabs like “contents” “create a book” “donate to
Wikipedia” “random article” “help” “community portal” and many others.
D) Features – The website Wikipedia has a
lot of features with every word on the page is hyperlinked to a different page
which talks about that specific word, place, person or subject which is full of
information. There is a scroll bar on the side of the page, which allows you to
scroll down the page and up to see more information, at the top of the page
there is the Wikipedia logo on the left which also navigates you back to the
home page with a number of different languages below it incase you cant read
English. Across from the logo on the top right of the page is where you can
login to your account which allows you to edit different pages and either add
or delete information on that specific page to improve it.
E) Benefits – The benefit of Wikipedia for
the user is that you can find out information about a person, subject or place
which goes into detail about that person or places history and many other
things about them. You can find this information within seconds by just typing
in the search bar what you need to know which is useful for when revising at
school and you need to know what something means or who someone is or what a
place is. It benefits a variety of people by allowing you to change what
language you see the text in for people who cant read English.
(Producer) Wikipedia is a non-profit
organisation, which doesn’t have a profit game, but they benefit from trying to
encourage people to donate to their charity, which aims to help thousands of
people around the world.
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LO1 Task 2; IGN
purpose - The purpose of the website IGN is to provide readers with an honest review about games for different consoles and films. They get there review across to readers in a number of ways like writing about it and providing screenshots to physically show the reader and they also make videos of them playing the game. IGN review both the good points and bad points about a game which could influence you to buy the game or not depending whether you see something you like within the game or dislike. IGN write and show you the same sort of thing with films and talk about the actors performance whether it was good or could have been better and could influence you to not the see the film and watch another.
Visitor Needs - The visitor needs for IGN is for any age who can read because they don't just review games which are for 18s+ but they look at many others like "PG, 3, 7, 16" and many others. They do the same when looking at films they look at a variety of age rated films and IGN look at a variety of different genres for both films and games because not everybody likes the same genre and will watch or play the same film or game. The visitor would want to use this website to see other peoples opinions on games for example if everyone has given the game a bad review you aren't likely to buy it, there may be mixed opinions and you might like all the positives of that game and you may be interested to buy it or they may have made a sequel of a previous game and haven't included some features so you don't want to buy it. You may see an advert for a new TV show on television which looks good but then look at the reviews and find out it isn't very interesting and the advert just makes it look good and you don't like the storyline behind it so you wont watch it or you might be interested if it has a good story and people write good reviews about it. The visitor wants to be able to easily access the different reviews to games, tv shows, films and be able to see the advantages and disadvantages with pictures and even videos explaining why they don't like certain things and they should be kept up to date with new reviews which are coming up.
C) Information Flow – The IGN website is
crammed with information, backgrounds, banners and tabs as soon as you go on
the website with you seeing a lot of information at once as soon as you’re on
the site. This gives the users a good experience as it allows them to be able
to look at a lot of information on the page with it being spaced out enough for
it to be comfortable to look through.
The search bar and tabs at the top allow the user to easily be able to
search through the site to find what they’re looking for and can just click on
images on the website and videos without having to leave the page. You can
easily find the account login button at the top, which allows you to login to
see if you have received any messages, or messaged about any updates or
upcoming games/reviews.
D) Features – The IGN website has many
features with the different page tabs which help you quickly locate the page
you need like “Xbox one” where you will find all the game reviews for Xbox One.
Included in the header is the IGN logo, which is used to remind people of who
that logo belongs to when they see it. There is a search bar which is located
at the side of the page which helps you scroll down the page to view more
information and other pages, there are also many pictures and videos displayed
on many different pages which allow you to just click play on the videos to
start watching them or even click on the pictures to bring you to a different
page with a lot of hyperlinked text on each page to help you navigate around
the site.
E) Benefits - IGN provides a lot of
benefits for the user by educating the audience on a variety of games, TV shows
and films. IGN tell you what’s good and bad where them you can decide if you
ant to buy that games, watch the film or TV shows. Another benefit is that we
can access this information quickly and easy by their well-structured site. The
site isn’t just for you to go and look round and watch videos and view pictures
you can actually comment on different reviews whether you agree or not or have something
to add and you can even create your on blog on the site and write your on
reviews which IGN may use or recruit you.
(Producer) The producer of IGN benefit by
receiving all of the latest games and consoles, films and TV shows for free
before they’re released to the public so they can review it. They also get paid
to write reviews about all of these different games, films and TV shows.
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