Monday, 16 November 2009

Making your preliminary Website

Once you have completed all the previous tasks on the blog, you are ready to start making your primary school website.

Just to make sure your fully on the right track Ive listed below the things your Primary website has to do or have.




  • Have at least 4 pages

  • Be easy to navigate

  • Have a link to another website

  • Have original artwork and photography

  • Have an original school badge/logo.
  • A video clip

Before I let you get cracking Its important to make clear that this is the preliminary task, not the final task. While I expect the you to work hard on it, dont get stressed if it doesnt look exactly how you want. we are doing sessions on good design for websites.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Preliminary task page layouts.

Im going to be away next monday on a trip to Spain, While im away I expect you to make sure your upto date and to complete the following task.
Im adding a list below of all the work your should have done so far. it needs to be on your blog as soon as possible.
  • Analyse and annotate websites
  • Answer the questions on conventions and webdesign
  • Design a website storyboard
  • Sketch out your detailed webpage designs
  • Scan and colouryour designs
  • post it all on your blog!
WEB PAGE DESIGN TASK
You should have planned a storyboard for your website before the holiday. now you need to make more detailed mock ups of your websites pages.
I suggest that you sketch your designs on paper, then you scan in and colour your designs on photoshop or other image editing software.
If you arent sure on how to prepare the scanned line art for colouring you might find the link below useful, it shows how an artist colours in a picture of a dragon, while not the exact subject matter that we are dealing with the process it teaches is useful.
Ive included a link to a website that has some examples of how some professionals have designed web pages to give you an idea about how it could be done.
Here are two web page designs ive pinched off the internet to show you the kind of end result you should aim for.
Heres an example from last year of what your work should look like when done. the only thing missing from this example is a few annotations explaining the features of each page.
So you need to go get your website pages planned out and coloured.
If you have any problems while im away, leave a comment at the end of this post and I will do my best to answer it as soon as possible.
Mr R.