LO4: Website practise

LO1+2 feedback sheet

LO2: Information Flow

My audience for my website can easily navigate throughout my website by big user interface buttons which direct them to another page. When you are on another page I will also have a 'back' button in the header which directs users back to the homepage. I am also going to have buttons on the header of the homepage which directs them to a sign up and help page. At the bottom of the page I am going to include little icons to direct you to their social media pages. I will also have a top navigation buttons to every page

LO2: Legal and Eithical

Some of the legal and ethical issues I would need to consider would be copyright. Under the copyright act if someone uses something which is copyrighted without permission they could take you to court. So if I was to use an image or sound from the internet I would either need to make sure it isn't copyrighted or write to the owner asking for permission to use it and reference who owns it and where its from.

LO2: Gantt Chart

LO2: Code Academy

Coding

LO2: Moodboard for inspiration

LO2: Audience

The target audience for my Hive it website would be males and females ages 8 - 21 as I'm going to make it appealing for younger audiences so that generations will grow up with this knowledge about the importance of bees. People with the NRS social grade of C1,C2 and some B will be the target audience for my website as it will just be a fun and colourful website which also has lot of information on and doesn't require you to pay anything you can just sign up to the page and visit it when you like. It could be appealing to teachers as its an education site made for a younger audience.

LO2: Purpose

The purpose of the website I have chosen Hive It is to inform and educate its audience about the importance of bees to the UK's ecosystem and how you can help stop bees from decreasing throughout the years. I know this because I have looked at a similar website called http://www.tigersincrisis.com which is a website to give you information about the types of tigers and which of them are endangered. It tells you things such as the remaining sub-species of tigers left in the world and approximately how many of them are left and where they live. It includes pictures of tigers throughout the website as well as short video clips of them and how they are being looked after. It has buttons you can click which opens their Facebook, twitter, google+ page. It also has links to other nature pages that shows you them saving endangered tigers. These are all things which I can look to putting into the website I am going to be making.

LO2: Planning a multi-page website

Hive It – the decline of bees in the UK

There are five learning outcomes for this unit:

LO1: Understand a range of commercial websites

LO2:.Be able to plan the development of a multi-page website

LO3: Be able to create a new multi-page website

LO4: Be able to conduct target audience user testing on their new functional multi-page website

LO5: Be able to evaluate their new functional multi-page website

LO2: Starter

I am interested in making a website to show the decline of bees in the UK.
I will include bee animations and sounds
Information about how to keep bees and the reasons for the decrease in them
Include a donation page to help fund the bee keeping
Include a bee game which your score helps bees the higher you get

LO1: Lesson 2 Task Sheet

LO1: Lesson 1 Task Sheet

LO1: Analysis of Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/

A) Purpose: The purpose of Facebook is that it is a social media site where anyone across the world can talk to and interact with each other. Facebook is now one of the most used site which means its target audience would be from pretty much anyone who has access to the internet.

B) Visitor Needs: The visitor needs for Facebook is so that people can interact with other uses around the world and this is achieved by it having the option to like, comment and share others peoples posts as well as being able to directly message them.

C) Information Flow/User Experience: When the user firsts loads up facebook they are faced with a sign up page and it uses the iconic purple and white colour scheme. In the footer it also gives you the option to change the language of the site.

D) Features: Facebook has many features such as a database search bar where you can find any of your friends or facebook group pages in the header. On the right side of the page you have a section which is constantly updating which allows you to see what your friends are liking or commenting on as well as which of your top friends are online. One of the main features used by facebook users would be the status box where you can write a status that all your friends can see on the home page. The other main feature would be messages where you can message any user on facebook by opening their facebook page and clicking message. There are also smaller feature of facebook where you can edit your settings and manage your groups, friends, etc.

E) Benefits: The benefits for the producers of facebook would be that they ca advertise on a mass scale as nearly everyone uses Facebook now so whatever they advertise can be seen by a lot of people. Along side the amount of users use Facebook this means that advertising other peoples products would make the producers a lot of money. Another benefit that would join together with the user would be that they can gain information about anyone who joins the site or a fan page that was made about them. The benefits that a user would get by using Facebook would be their social media features where they can interact with any other user.

F) Content 

LO1 Analysis of HSBC Online Banking

http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/ways-to-bank/internet-banking

A) Purpose: The Purpose of HSBC Online Banking is for financial/e-commerce as you can manage your money and bank statements. The target audience would be males and females from 18 to 60 year olds as people that are not up to date with technology wouldn't usually use the online banking apps.

B) Visitor Needs: The visitor needs for the HSBC online banking app is so that the users can see their available money and what they have spent money on and this is achieved by the app allowing the to see all of their bank statements from when the opened an account and an available balance option. You can also manage your money further by setting an option which only allows you to spend a certain amount while saving the rest. It also allows an overdraw amount so you can go over your account limit and pay it back when you have the money available.

C) Information Flow/User Experience: When the user first enters the site they can see that on the HSBC homepage there is lots of important information which they can click into to find out more about what the bank offers. On the header it also has a search bar for users to find exactly what they are looking for and a sign up button.

D) Features: The main feature of the HSBC onling banking app would be to manage your money in the 'available money' option where it also shows you all your bank statements. You also have the option to transfer money from one account to another if you are transferring money to your friends and family. It has a feature where if you complete their online questionnaires where you can get money off various things as well as being able to win prizes. If you are using the app on a big scale it also has a feature to get loans and to also invest money.

E) Benefits: The benefits the producers of HSBC online banking would receive is that they would get more popularity as their online site could then be advertised on other sites and be found easily through google. They can also manage their system very easily as well as keep their users up to date with the latest information about the bank. The benefits the users will receive is that they ca very easily log on at any time of the day to see their available money and bank statements which you wouldn't be able to do normally as banks have closing times.

F) Content:

LO1 Analysis of Itunes

http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/

A) Purpose: The purpose of Itunes would be to download and stream its content. Itunes have a wide variety of things you can download and stream such as music, tv programmes, films and game apps.  Apple products can be expensive so the target audience to people who can access these features will be in higher abc financial status. Itunes has a massively spread target audience for both male and female uses as it goes from learning games from infants up to horror films.

B) Visitor Needs: The visitor needs of iTunes is that the user can successfully download specific songs and apps to their computer or device. This is achieved by it having a well organised filter system so they can find the content they are looking for as well as it allowing them to create playlists and folders for everything they download.

C) Information Flow/User Experience: When a user enters the site or downloads iTunes they are presented with an introductory paragraph of what iTunes is and offers them along with their different products and a search bar so they can find what the are looking for easily.

D) Features: Itunes has a search bar in the header which aloows you to look for anything from games to music. It has a feature that enables multiple apple product users to connect to the same itunes account if you want to share your apps and music with family members. In the app it allows you to make a playlist with pretty much anything you have on your itunes account.

E) Benefits: The benefits that the producers of iTunes would receive is that they can mass advertise on the site/app as a lot of people own apple products and go onto the site. Advertising as well as selling their own products means that they are gaining a lot of money from having a website. The benefits a user would get from the iTunes website would be that they can download and update anything from its database at any time of the day. They can also manage their items in their iTunes account easily because of the website.

F) Content: 

LO1: Analysis of BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

A) Purpose: The purpose of BBC News is for information as it has the latest news of what is going on around the world.  Because of it being a more serious news page the target audience would be towards older more educated males and females aged from 25 – 75.

B) Visitor needs: The visitor needs of BBC News is that anyone can access the site and see the global news or weather. This is achieved by you being able to filter through all the current and previous global news wit heady to follow navigation buttons and thumbnails.

C) Information Flow/User Experience: The user is presented with the latest and most important news in the center of the home page but they can also filter to other latest or past news with the search bar in the header.

D) Features: At the top of the page just under the header the BBC site has buttons which click into different sub-categories of news that you can chose to go into. You can also sign upto an account in this area so that after you have viewed some news when you come back to the site it has suggested news which is based on what you have previously looked at. In the header is has options which allow you to view their radio, weather, tv, etc. One good feature which the site also has is view local news which goes on the location which you are at and finds the best news in your area. As well as the sub-categories there is also an additional search bar so you can find exact news which you are looking to watch. In the footer there are options to view BBC news on your smart phone and tv.

E) Benefits: The benefits that the producers of BBC News would receive is that they can expand their news facility to a wider audience as anyone can log into the website at any time. It also allows previous news to be viewed which would be very suitable to do if they only had BBC News on TV. The benefits a user will receive from the website is that they ca view any news that has been posted by BBC News at any time a well a keep up to date with any news that has recently been broadcasted.

F: Content: 

LO1: Analysis of Ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk

A) Purpose: The purpose for ebay is an e-commerce website as people can sign up to buy and sell their personal or company items. Because it’s to do with finance and there are bright colours the target audience will be males and females ages 18 – 50.

B) Visitor Needs: The visitor needs of Ebay is so that a user can buy or sell new/used items items. This is achieved by Ebay having an easy to use search guide as it comes up with suggestions as you start to type. Also listing items is easy to do as there is a simple guid to follow while you're listing your items.

C) Information Flow/User Experience: When a user goes on the ebay site they are presented with the most popular items and deals which you can click into. It has a sign up bar in the header as well as a seatch bar under it so you can browse for specific items to buy.

D) Features: In the eager Ebay has a sign up bar which you can make an account and save things into your watch list which keeps listings that you may want to buy into a folder. you can search for items with the search bar just under the header.

E) Benefits: For the founders of ebay their benefits to the website would be making a lot of money by people making sales on ebay as they keep 10% as a payment for people buying and selling via them. The other benefits would be able to advertise other companies on their site as a lot of people use ebay.


F) Content: 

LO1: Understand a range of contrasting commercial websites

LO1 (P)

Lo2 (D)

LO3 (D)

LO4 (P)

LO5 (M)

A) Purpose

B) Visitor Needs

C) Information Flow

D) Features

E) Benefits

F) Content

The main purposes of websites are:

Information (Public service, education, news)

Advertising (A product, film, programme)

Downloads and Streaming (Music, films, resources)

Social Media (Networking sites, citizen journalism)

E-Commerce (Buying and Selling, Money managing sites)