Jack Fower Space Exploration ougd504

The website I have created is not as adventurous as I’d have liked but it works well, it’s well considered and it meets it’s aims.

The target audience of my website would be 6-14 year olds, although 14 may be a little high.

The website will inform and educate children and teenagers about Space Exploration.

I started my summer research just looking into the history of Space travel, focusing on who started the phenonmenon to where we are today and everywhere inbetween.

I feel asthough Space Exploration should be pushed further within education and whilst children are younger, encouraging them to be pro-active about it.

Is there life out there? How do we get there? Who’s been in space?

...many questions need answers.

Jack Fower Space Exploration ougd504

These are a couple of my reworked scamps which show colour so I could experiment and see how different colours work and feel with the designs as a whole.

During a crit for web, someone recommended that I trid forming the title out of stars which I wasn’t keen on. But I decided to give it a go, seeing how I felt about it.

It works well but not for what I wanted. The little spaceship drawings were to be a feature of a navigation for my website.

Jack Fower Space Exploration ougd504

The navigation for the website is these solid coloured rockets, with a contrasting semi opaque rollover image revealing where the link goes. Making the user ‘explore’ the website to find what’s around.

The rockets are one rocket handrawn and live traced, but easily the standout feature of the website.

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The website communicates to the target audience well, maybe a slighty younger starting audience and potentially capped at around 12.

The website boasts friendly sans serif type and querky navigation which is comfortable.

Homepage History of Space Exploration Space Missions Space Club

If I could have, I would have learned some flash and JavaScript so that I could have experimented further with my website as a whole.

But the simplicity does work.

The website would have a games section on also if completed fully. The newsletter/club was just a way to experiment with more code and an easier route than a new page and creating games. Considering timescale, but I do have the feeling to finish this off properly.

Space Exploration ougd504

Font: Century Gothic Bold

Colours:

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The website would also be available for iPad and iPhone although the main focus would be web based and iPad based.

The website would function literally exactly the same on each device. The only minor difference would be as opposed to there being a rollover link on the navigation, the image would only changed after being interacted with.

Space Exploration ougd504

Font: Century Gothic Bold

Colours: