Producing an Entertainment Website for Teenagers
Planning
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Our task was to design a website for a chosen target audience. My aim
was to produce an entertainment website for teenagers. The reason why
I choose to have teenagers as my target audience is mainly because I
am a teenager myself so I would understand what code and conventions
to have in my website.
The research that was needed was:
Ø What categories to have on the website
Ø What colour scheme people like best
Ø The name of the site
To make the research successful I made a survey for the audience to
fill out, we choose only to hand the survey out to people around our
age group. I choose to hand out the survey to 20 people. The survey
also had to stand out and look professional so that people refuse to
do the survey. I thought that designing it on a computer would make it
look professional.
The results that I received from the survey:
Ø The favourite colour schemes:
Blue and black- 8 people
Blue and White-8 people
Ø The favourite 3 categories for the website:
Music, sports and games.
Ø The favourite name:
E-zone
I had encountered one problem with the results I got from the surveys.
I had to choose between the games page or a gossip page. I choose the
games page because I thought that it would attract more people.
We also had to make a decision on what the content of our pages was
going to be. The games page was going to include a top ten chart for
the Playstation2, and reviews for the top three. The music page was
going to include a top ten chart. The sports page was going to have
the most; there was going to be football, cricket, rugby union, motor
sports, Olympics and a premiership table.
Once all our research was done we had to split the roles in the
production of the website.
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