Design Production Workshop

What is a website for?

• Promotion 
• Informing
• Persuasion
• Contact
• Entertainment 

The audience is NEVER for everyone. 

Three factors of a website

• Check it actually works (functionality)
• Aesthetics-is it visually appealing?
• Does it work well? (usability) 

Making a website

• Landing pages?-For every page, ask why?, what is the point? 
• Need a contact page-Email, physical location and address, telephone number, business networking and online presence. 
• About page- Is it relevant to the clients who want to appeal to? 
• A CV page-If you show your portfolio do they need to see your CV? Let the work speak for itself.
• A shop-Depending what type of designer your are.
• A blog/news feed could go on Homepage to show active work and what is currently going on in terms of your design. 
• Clean layout But unoriginal-make it different. 
• Navigation
• Redundant features- get rid of them. 

KISS- Keep, it simple stupid. 

This is the homepage that I designed for myself. I decided to go for something more illustrative as this reflects my practice. I thought that the typewriter could be a place of daily blog updates and what is going on. The scroll bar on the right will be a way of scrolling down te paper on the typewriter therefore making it more interactive. The navigation is placed across the top as this is a clear location to put it and people are familiar with this sort of layout. 

This this the feedback received: