Progress so far
It’s been a long time since the last blog so I will fill you in on the progress of the website and tell you about the coming weeks.
Research
I have been continuously researching and developing ideas for the layout and creativity of the website, after looking at competitions websites on the internet it became apparent that I needed to keep the website fresh, with clean lines and simple colours. To make sure the website was targeting both male and females Stacey and I decided to go with dark purple colours for the main bulk of the website, this colour stands out and also goes nicely with grey, silver and white colours.
Content
After continuous debate about the size of this project, we decided that as we only had a short amount of time in which to complete the website that we should aim the content at the youth in the Midlands area, there was already a working group ‘Catch 21’ doing a similar thing to us but from London, so by concentrating on one main area, now that being the Midlands, our podcast’s will be more direct and more suited to one direct group of people.
Talking to fellow students it became apparent that one student was completing an environmental website full of podcast’s for his project, so we have teamed up with him for this particular podcast to make it more interactive for the users of the website.
Productivity
After buying the domain name www.yourmidlands.com I have been getting used to using FTP to upload my website onto the web. I am currently in the progress of downloading all internet browsers so that I can actively test my website on all different platforms to make it accessible to all users, this has already brought up some layout issues when using Fire Fox instead of Dream weaver, all issues I need to address and tackle before the website goes live.
Things to think about:
As we are rapidly approaching launch date, I have started become aware of the needs and wants for a website such as this and have started to research now into making this website more and more interactive I am currently researching into :
§ Making this website into a community
§ Viral Blogging / Emailing this domain name
§ Viral Blogging/ Emailing information about the website to get user numbers up.
§ RSS feeds
§ News Scroller
There will now be, more than one weekly blog commencing from Friday 11th April to update on progress, testing and so fourth.
