Studio Workshop: Introduction to Web Design

The Purpose of website:

• Promotion
• Information
• Persuasion
• Contact
• Supplementary to this - Entertainment 

THE AUDIENCE IS NEVER EVERYONE

Three key elements to a good website:

• Is it functional?
• Is it visually appealing?
• Is the functionality useable? 

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Designing a portfolio website

• Homepage: Name, Job Title, Selected samples of work, Navigation
• Work: examples of work in the form of image or videos, projects descriptions and titles
• Information: CV, work experience, Academic background, summary of who I am, Awards, exhibitions
• Contact: Email address, phone number, Possible location, Network links (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)

Feedback received:

• Simple easy to understand layout
• Maybe have name and title larger to make it more noticeable
• How is the homepage eye catching?
• Something to encourage users to browse other pages?
• Design is a little plain?
• In the footer there are 4 pages, but there are three in the header, unify this to avoid confusion! 
• Simple and clean, does the job
• Good use of the footer, simple and limited use of text
• The footer suits the layout of the page
• Would you need the footer as well as the link to the contact
• Good detailed plan, would like to see a more interesting design
• Simple yet effective layout

Common Feedback from group web design challenge:

• Clean layout and easy to use but unoriginal
• Navigation is simple and clear
• Redundant Features
• KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!)
• Use of the grid to aid design on paper and then taking it to digital