Meeting Summary on 03/03/08

  

Meeting 03/03/08

 Meeting Criteria: 

• Finalise Name
• Finalise Slogan
• Finalise layout
• Finalise Colours
• Talk about domain name
• Audio
• Content
• Talk about professional context
• Advertising

 Design 

The basis of this meeting was to define and finalise all of the designs elements of the website and to make sure that Stacey and myself were both thinking along the same line in terms of content and design.

 

After brainstorming all week, we were both still stuck for ideas for names of the website but decided to go with “Your Midlands”; making it both regional and personal. Although this doesn’t directly tell you that the website is based around political issues that are concerned with the youth of today we thought this name was simple and effective. By adding the slogan “Your Voice, Your Politics, Your Future” the viewer now should be able to realise that they can have their say on the matter in hand, “Your Voice”, that its an informative website dealing with youth politics “Your Politics” and why this website has been made, “Your future”. With the logo a funky regional map with the name of the website on it, the area of significance is once again mentioned.

 Professional Context 

In order to make sure that this website is both professional in the way it’s designed but also the process in which we went through to get to the final end stage. One of our main concerns was making sure that there is actually a need for our product, which, after speaking to a number of media professionals in different areas, they believe our idea is a worth while and interesting project, however as we want this website to actually be successful with people writing on the forums and getting actively involved in the website, we are still trying to look for a client in the media world, some one that would be able to give us a bit more guidance on what is expected from such a project – this is one area we are continuing to research into until we hopefully find some one willing to help.

 Advertising 

We also discussed the need for an advertising space on the website, just a small bar on the right hand side with maybe two or three adverts, whether they are simply flyers for other websites that promote the same ideas as we are. This is also another area we are looking more into.

 What needs to be done by the next time we meet: Marie: 

• Finish of CSS template
• Finalise Logo
• Design and make links
• Design and make header and footer
• Research audio for web
• Research into advertising
• Research and contact media professionals

 Stacey: 

• Finalise content
• Research content
• Talk to Sam about length of podcasts
• Research into advertising
• Research and contact media professionals