Dreamweaver session 1!

Purpose?

• online presence, easily accessible
• increase profile
• standardize work

Who's the website for? Who are the target audience?

• potential clients
• potential employers
• like minded people/collaborations/students (educational) etc

Audience needs

• identity
• showcase of work
• contact
• prices
• feedback/examples

Research

• browse others sites
• look online at examples

Fonts/layout needs to be standardized. The webpages need to be kept similar, so they look as though they belong and work well together.

The principles of web design:

1. Layout, balance, flow, alignment, resolution, grids (use grid paper when designing)

2. Type, legibility, font size, font used (standard ones found on every computer), font stacks (telling the computer to replace typefaces with another if it doesn't work on a computer)

3. Colour, RGB, websafe, hexadecimal

4. Navigation, clear/simple

In photoshop, in 'colour picker', click on 'only web colours'.

Monitor = 800px x 600px

-Home

-Work/Portfolio

-About/CV

-Links (influences, friends)

-Shop?

-Blog

HTML = hyper text markup language

PHP = works for any database driven site

I've been looking at examples of website design.

I really want to go for a simple layout, with plenty of white space. This will ensure the focus is purely on my work rather than having distractions around.

This Gorilla Visuals website is a great inspiration to me. It I love how the information is kept within a boundary.

The typography is relevant and is a good choice. They're a friendly business and want the customers to feel welcome.

The typeface used for 'Gorilla Visuals' at the top of the page has been used to represent the photography. 'we endeavor to capture your event as naturally as possible'. The keyword being, 'natural'.

I very much like this also (below)

Again, it's very simply laid out.

Instead of a vertical layout, the information and work has been displayed in a horizontal direction. I think this is how I'd like mine to be. I feel as though my work would suit looking like this.

Seen as it's my first website, I don't want to have to scroll up or down to view anything. I want to have everything on one static page. This will make it a lot less complicated for people who look at my site as everything will be right in front without having to search up and down the webpage.