Planning a websiteby Jamie Verrall

There are lots of things to think about when deciding about creating

a website…

Creating a website.ppt

Designing a Website

1. Topic• The topic is Arsenal.• The sport is football.

2. Audience• Arsenal fans.• Fans from around the world.• They want to see the latest news.• Information about players and the club.

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• Arial• Font Colour• Font Size

9. Pictures• Of players.• Photographers take the photos.• Links to other pages.

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 buying games

• This is because it is something I enjoy doing and I think that it would be easier to do something like this.

Ideas…• Hobby• Band• Club• Sports

2. Audience

• The type of person that would visit my site is people that want to buy games.

• They will be particularly interested in seeing is all different platforms of games and accessories on each playform.

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

• Games• Game• Gaming• Gaming Platforms• Xbox one• Xbox 360• Playstation 3• Playstation 4• Xbox• Playstation

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

4. Layout

• I want my website to include• Pictures• Text• Tables• Buttons• Variant font sizes.

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

5. General Interface (what it looks like)

In the background I will have black and white in the home page and then on the platforms I will have the background of the platform. For example I will have Green and white for Xbox and Blue for play station 3,4.

I will use buttons to link to other game platforms.

My buttons will look like... They will be a image of the platform logo. For example there will be an Xbox 360 button linking to the Xbox 360 page.

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

6. Logo

• Will your website have a logo? Yes it will, It will be in the top left corner of the website.

• Where will it come from? Google/Bing images.

• Paste it here…

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

7/8. Title & Body Text

• What will the title be? GAMER STORE

• What type of font/writing will you use? What size writing will it be? There will be different font types and sizes for different things. For example I will have bigger and bolder writing for the platforms so people can go to where they want to be.

Ideas…• Font• Font Colour• Font Size

9. Pictures

• Paste the pictures you want to use here…

• Where are they from? (i.e. internet, digital camera)

Google images

10. Navigation

• How many pages will you webpage have?I am going to have a minimum of 5 pages but

there could be more than this amount.- What will each of these pages show? These

pages will show a home page and then a page for each platform. (One for Xbox one, one for Xbox 360, one for ps3 and one for ps4.