Tuesday, March 24, 2015

WEBSITE OBSERVATIONS!

WEBSITE OBSERVATIONS!

In today's lesson, we observed different websites over the internet and looked for the good things/ factors included on each website. We had to look at how the information is presented, the button style and more factors a good website needs. We also had to look at the bad things about the website or what they could have done to improve the website. 

Website 1 - Sky Sports 

http://www.skysports.com/


This is the sky sports main page. It is very well presented and it has buttons and different links. It can take you to the home page, sports, videos etc and they all work perfectly. There are main updates like what has happened frequently on sports and they have included a good range of pictures. The colour scheme is really good and really suits the sports theme well.


This page of the website is where you can watch live sports online and chose what you want to watch. You can even watch the highlights of previous games or any game you like. It runs and opens very smoothly. 


This is near the bottom of the website where you can get more information and updates on what has been going on the past few days or the main events taking place too. It has a good amount of pictures. I think the information is a bit too packed and there is a lot to read. They could have just kept the main parts or the important events on the main page and the others under another link/ page.


Website 2 - Apple Store

http://store.apple.com/ae


This is the apple store main page. It has a good variety of pictures and different updates. The website also works really quickly and is managed well. They don't have much information to tell us more about their products but they have many other pages that give more prices of their products. It is a good website if you just want to browse and get ideas of what to buy (by also looking at the price rates and comparing them to other things).

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

MAKING OUR WEBSITE - ROLLOVER BUTTONS/ IMAGES

MAKING OUR WEBSITE - ROLLOVER BUTTONS/ IMAGES


In today's lesson, we made rollover images so that when ever the mouse goes over any of the buttons, the buttons change to light up or change to a different style. I also saved these as JPEG files. Attached below are my main buttons and also my rollover buttons/ images. 
















The top ones of each of the buttons are the main buttons that you will see on the website whilst the bottom ones of each of the buttons are the rollover buttons/ images.



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

MAKING OUR WEBSITE

MAKING OUR WEBSITE

In today's lesson, we started using dream weaver to make our website. We started off with the basics like making the whole layout and adding the banner, footer and all the buttons. This is how it looks.



I used lens flare to add the brightness to some areas of my button and this made my buttons look more effective. I saved my images in two types: JPEG file (saving as a picture) and a PSD file (on photoshop) so I can go back to my work and change it if I ever need to. The software I used to make the buttons was Photoshop and to create my website I used Dream Weaver. To improve my website, I could have made my buttons the same colour as my banner so it looks much better. But I hope the overall website turns out really good and I hope this project will be a success!