Planning a websiteby Tom Kirk

There are lots of things to think about when deciding about

creating a website…

Designing a Website

1. Topic

2. Audience• Who are they?• Where are they from?• What will they want to see?• What kinds of info will be needed?

3. Key Terms• Wording (Subject Spec)• Hot Words/Hyperlinks

4. Layout• Pictures• Frames• Borders• Tables• Text Boxes

5. General Interface• Background (image/colour)• Buttons•Menus

6. Logo• Existing?• Your Own?• Watermark effect?• Small in a corner?

7. Title• Font• Font Colour• Font Size

8. Body Text• Font• Font Colour• Font Size

9. Pictures• Of what?• From Where?• Links?

10. Navigation• Order of pages• Web Schema• Why in order?• What links what?

You will now plan your website

• For homework I asked you to identify what you want to create a website about.

• You will now put together a presentation using the slides following this one to plan your site ready to build it next week.

1. Topic

I have chosen to create a website about…

Gaming and gaming information.

This is because…

I know a lot about gaming and so it will be easy for me to do.

Ideas…• Hobby• Band• Club• Sports

2. Audience

The type of person that would visit my site is…

It will mostly be teenagers that visit the site but also kids and some adults depending on what games they like.

They will be particularly interested in seeing…

Games and game information and gaming in total.

Ideas…• Who are they?• Where are they from?• What will they want to

see?• What kinds of information

will be needed?

3. Key Words

I will need to use words related to my topic these will include…Gaming, games, extras, information and a few more which are all related.

Ideas…• Wording (Subject Specific)• Hot Words/Hyperlinks

4. Layout

I want my website to include… A Lot of pictures, my own logo, Tables, boarders, frames, and a lot of text boxes.

Ideas…• Pictures• Frames• Borders• Tables• Text Boxes

5. General Interface (what it looks like)

In the background I will have…a load of pictures put in one of in game screenshots and a few other random photos.

I will use buttons to…. Link to more about gaming.

My buttons will look like…

Ideas…• Background (image / colour)• Buttons (square / round/ animated/ picture / change colour)

6. Logo

Will your website have a logo? It will indeed.

Where will it come from? Google images.

Paste it here…

Ideas…• Existing?• Your Own?• Watermark effect?• Small in a corner?

7/8. Title & Body Text

What will the title be…T.K Gaming Information.

What type of font/writing will you use? What size writing will it be? My font will be ChocolateBox and the size will be about 10 or 12.

Ideas…• Font• Font Colour• Font Size

9. Pictures

Paste the pictures you want to use here…there are to many but they are all of games like, Middle-earth:Shadow Of Mordor, assassins creed and loads more.

Where are they from? They are all from the internet.

10. Navigation

How many pages will you webpage have? It will have about 6-8

What will each of these pages show? Home Page, Games, Releases, Gaming Information, Gaming trailers, Gaming reviews.

Examples.

I like how there is a lot of

information on the pages

and there is a lot of

games being reviewed.

But I don’t like how the

page is laid out and

where all the buttons are.