ATRG website banner

This is How the logo and navigation will appear on each page. I have decided to alter the logo slightly by changing the colours to match those in the colour scheme sample (posted previously). Adding colour to the banner will inevitably bright the page up, making it visually appealing for the user.

Client Project ATRG

Objective: To produce a slick, stylish 4-5 page promotional website with the express aim of documenting the work of the Advanced Textiles Research Group (ATRG). 
The market for innovative products in the medical, fashion, artistic sectors are great. This promotional website should describe the success already achieved by the group.

Time Plan: To begin the project I created a time plan, making effective use of my time (as shown below).

The second, most important factor I considered prior to beginning the project was the audience. The site will be aimed at primarily Industry, Research Students and fellow Researchers. With this in mind, it is essential that the site is classy, chic, informative and 'to the point.'

I then created a site map, displaying how the pages link together: 

I am currently unsure whether to display links to Twitter and Facebook on every page. A prime disadvantage of this is that the user may become distracted by the social network site. They may navigate away from the Research Group and not return. However there is an option to open their Facebook page in a new window. Alternatively, I may only display the links on the Contact and Home page.
 Research: Before beginning to design the site, I researched into, what I believe are current, well structured websites (as shown below):

Although there isn't anything special about these sites, I really like their appearance and how basic they are. In both examples, it is the images that make the site. This is where I currently have a problem, as I do not have access to high resolution images such as these. 

Taking into consideration that the textile group is part of NTU, I have decided to use a colour scheme based on those as seen on Nottingham Trent's website:

This will prove to be an advantage as it will add consistency to the group. Users who are familiar with Nottingham Trent will be able to recognise that they are part of the University.

Possible logos designs:

With the intention of a new logo, I created those as seen above. The second and third logo are similar. However during the creation, I could not decide which font I prefer. After viewing them together, I prefer the second. After creating the first logo, I decided to alter the font to match the one in the Nottingham Trent logo (adding to consistency).

During the mock-up stage, it is likely the colour of the logo will change.

Wireframes: Following on, I have started to create wireframes of each page. This will inevitably make creating the website easier, as I will know what goes where.

Home Page:

Projects Page:

Work Experience

So over the holidays I've managed to bag some work experience with Website Solutions, in my local town of Grimsby.

Above is a mockup of the Home Page for a Humberside Upholstery. With a little luck, they will be taking it to a meeting with them next week!

Group client project

Recently, each member of the group created a mock-up of the Home Page. We then picked the best 2 and emailed them to Tim. We are now waiting for a reply, stating which design he prefers. 

In the meantime, I've created a wire-frame for the About Page and News page, whilst another member created one for the Games Page and Contact Page.

Group client project

Ok, so this is my first post regarding the group client project we are working on at the minute. Safe to say I am pleased with our groups performance!

Last week we had a meeting with Tim Hatton (Business Development Manager) at Notts County Football Ground. We are required to create a junior supporter's website (under the name of Team Magpies), which is targeted at 7 to 16 year olds.

Below is the complete brief, as provided by Tim:

General comments

We need the website to be attractive to the children who will use it.  Team Magpies is split into two sections: all members are under 16.  Mini Magpies are 0 to 6 years old and Team Magpies are 7 to 16 years old.  Bear in mind that young children will not use the website.

I will be able to supply the copy for the content, but you can populate the different pages and I will amend them as necessary.

Visuals

The website needs to be interactive and fun.  It also has to be less corporate than NCFC Football in the Community and NCFC’s website but still fit visually with Notts County’s family of websites.

http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/page/Home/

http://www.nottscountyfitc.org.uk/

The Team Magpies leaflet and the page on the Team Magpies page on the NCFC website give all the information you need to start completing / filling in the copy for the different pages we need.

Content

The pages we will probably need are:

Home

About Team Magpies

News

Games / puzzles / quizzes / competitions

Contact us

This list could be extended – so it would help when you build the website if you could enable us to add additional pages if required.

Websites we like for this age group

I looked at lots of clubs websites but most don’t have a Junior Supporters section.  Arsenal’s is the best of its kind.  See below:

http://www.arsenal.com/juniorgunners

The CBBC website is good for children who are 6 years old upwards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/

The CBeebies website is good for games for young children, so it would be useful to have some similar ideas for our younger members.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/

We need to include free football-related games, quizzes, puzzles, competitions etc. 

NB - We need to be able to update the website easily after the website project has been completed.

This will sit on staff desktops, so they can hover above a photo of a colleague, find out their name, click on it for their email address and phone numbers etc.  We need to be able to click on their email address so it opens up in Outlook.

There are about 40 – 50 members of staff at the club and 30 members of staff at FITC.  Not all of these have email addresses.

We need to be able to update this after project completion also to allow for new staff and people who leave.

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