Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Reflection- Web Design: Homepages

In our first week of making our own websites for Year 7 French learners as our IDU task, we had to first start designing our websites on a piece of paper or on the computer. In this week I was able to create 2 designs which were my homepage designs where I including all the things that I wanted in my website.                                        
<------ Homepage design 1 
<------- Homepage design 2














From my two designs, you can see that I named my website French for Beginners as this would be the first time for the Year 7's learning French and the website will include everything that they would need to learn to be prepared in school. In the first design I included a sign in box where the student that is going to use the website can sign up using their email and whenever they want to use the website again, they can come on it and log in and all their progress will be saved. There is also a tab bar where the student can guide themselves through the website and through the different pages by just clicking on one of the buttons on the tab bar. Next to the sign up and tab bar there is going to be a slideshow where it is going to be saying Hello! in different languages, including French. On the other side there will be quotes by famous French people about the language or about France in general. Under all of those things, there will be and area where you can choose your level of difficulty and also which topic you would want to learn. Once you click on it, it would take you directly to the page where you can start learning. Then the rest of the things are showing who created the website ( which is me) and also what you are going to learn on the website and why you should learn french which are both in paragraphs in boxes. The second design is the same as the 1st except in a different format and there are some things added like the levels instead of difficulties and also more activities. I think my designs for the website are quite good but once I get to creating the website, I might have to remove some things as the website might not be able to make it and I would also need to add other things to fill the space as well as figuring out how to direct the students to different pages and also make it much easier for them to use the website. I would also need to figure out a way of how I would make the sign up work so that it saves their progress every time they come back to the website. Now in the next week I need to finish the pages designs. The homepage design that I am choosing is the design 1 because it is more organised and less crowded. It would also be much easier for the students to navigate around it and locate each thing they want. It also looks more attractive than design 2 and it includes everything that I want it to include.







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