Monday, April 19, 2010

First Mockups - Proposal Titlepage






Here are my inititial designs for the Little Owl Apothecary website proposal.

I used the logo colours to create a clean & simple design.

I will be working further with more mockups for the page.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Design Questions for Client

Who is your target audience?
What is your companies product/service?
What is your point of difference?
Who are your main competitors?
What is your budget?
What are your expectations in terms of the timeline, deadlines of the project?
Does the site launch need to coincide with a specific product launch or company milestone?
What are the specs of the project?
Who will give final approval?
Would you like Search Engine Optimisation?
Do you have an existing logo, brand identity? If so, are you looking to reposition your brand?
What needs to be emphasised (FOCAL POINT AND VISUAL HIERARCHY)?
What colours do you want/what colours are already associated with the company?
Which element communicates the primary message?
Will I be working with any other industry professionals on this project?
How often do you nedd the site updated?
Will you be updating it internally or will you need me to do this?

Please fill out copy for Business Card:
- business name
- name
- position/qualification
- address
- contact #
- fax #
- email address
- website address

optional:
- slogan
- brief rundown of services/point of difference
- areas that are serviced if mobile service provided

Web Design Sem2 13.4.10

1. What is a Dreamweaver Template?
The Dreamweaver Template is a useful tool > you can set up a template to help build your site, or choose an existing template and modify.
2. What are the advantages of using templates?
The advantages of using a template is that it can simplify & speed up your work flow. By using a template you can make your website's layout consistent and therefore improve usability.
3. What is editable region?
An editable region is a region or area that you make in your template so that you can easily update information for instance, swap out information for new/different information, images etc on a regular basis. Regions that are non editable remain the same from page to page and consistent.
4. What is repeating region? How to set it up?
A Repeating Region is a template object, (Go to Insert >Template Objects > Repeating Region) It is used to create a region which wil repeat several times, in documents based on the template.
5. What is optional region?
An Optional Region is another Template object which you insert, this time to
let you show or hide certain content on a page-by-page basis.

6. Submit completed tutorial from Lynda.com
7. Practical Task