Web Workshop

Websites:

Two kinds,

. Portfolio
. Client

What you need before designing:

. Brief
. Agree the brief
. Contract
- Costs (Charge Per Hour)
- Copyright
- Amount of work
- Amount of amends
. Targeting an audience
- Research (Existing Pages)
- Asking client
. How to target the audience
- Colour
- Fonts
- Language
- Layout / Navigation
- Talk to the audience
- Format
. Purpose
. Design a proof
. Building the site
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Dreamweaver Session:
(WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get)

HTML = Hyper Text Mark-Up

Coding Language:

- Hexadecimal codes
e.g. *000000 - Black, with a hash.

- Fonts (Font Families)
(Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif)

Have to use standard fonts, coded above.

- Tables

- CSS = Cascading Style Sheets


Mock Website:

Content:

. Home
- About / Content / Welcome image / Show-reel
. Work
. Contact
. Blog
. About

For this session:

. Home Page
- Contact & About
. Work / Portfolio
. Blog

(Work on either 800 x 600 OR 1024 x 768)

1st thing to do, design a layout...

Coding example
BGColor:hashFFF
Font: Helvetica


To Do...

. Mock up of own website want to create
. Research into existing designs / websites
. Buy domain name & create a 'Coming soon' page.