1. Planning a website by Tom Kirk There are lots of things to think about when deciding about creating a website…

2. Designing a Website 1.Topic 2. Audience Who are they? Where are they from? What will they want to see? What kinds of info will be needed? 3. Key Terms Wording (Subject Spec) Hot Words/Hyperlinks 4. Layout Pictures Frames Borders Tables Text Boxes 5. General Interface Background (image/colour) Buttons Menus 6. Logo Existing? Your Own? Watermark effect? Small in a corner? 7. Title Font Font Colour Font Size 8. Body Text Font Font Colour Font Size 9. Pictures Of what? From Where? Links? 10. Navigation Order of pages Web Schema Why in order? What links what?

3. You will now plan your website For homework I asked you to identify what you want to create a website about. You will now put together a presentation using the slides following this one to plan your site ready to build it next week.

4. 1. Topic I have chosen to create a website about… Gaming and gaming information. This is because… I know a lot about gaming and so it will be easy for me to do. Ideas… Hobby Band Club Sports

5. 2. Audience The type of person that would visit my site is… It will mostly be teenagers that visit the site but also kids and some adults depending on what games they like. They will be particularly interested in seeing… Games and game information and gaming in total. Ideas… Who are they? Where are they from? What will they want to see? What kinds of information will be needed?

6. 3. Key Words I will need to use words related to my topic these will include…Gaming, games, extras, information and a few more which are all related. Ideas… Wording (Subject Specific) Hot Words/Hyperlinks

7. 4. Layout I want my website to include… A Lot of pictures, my own logo, Tables, boarders, frames, and a lot of text boxes. Ideas… Pictures Frames Borders Tables Text Boxes

8. 5. General Interface (what it looks like) In the background I will have…a load of pictures put in one of in game screenshots and a few other random photos. I will use buttons to…. Link to more about gaming. My buttons will look like… Ideas… Background (image / colour) Buttons (square / round/ animated/ picture / change colour)

9. 6. Logo Will your website have a logo? It will indeed. Where will it come from? Google images. Paste it here… Ideas… Existing? Your Own? Watermark effect? Small in a corner?

10. 7/8. Title & Body Text What will the title be…T.K Gaming Information. What type of font/writing will you use? What size writing will it be? My font will be ChocolateBox and the size will be about 10 or 12. Ideas… Font Font Colour Font Size

11. 9. Pictures Paste the pictures you want to use here…there are to many but they are all of games like, Middle-earth:Shadow Of Mordor, assassins creed and loads more. Where are they from? They are all from the internet.

12. 10. Navigation How many pages will you webpage have? It will have about 6-8 What will each of these pages show? Home Page, Games, Releases, Gaming Information, Gaming trailers, Gaming reviews.

13. Examples. I like how there is a lot of information on the pages and there is a lot of games being reviewed. But I don’t like how the page is laid out and where all the buttons are.