PROJECT PROPOSAL

 

For this project I will be designing and creating a website to promote myself as a Graphics Designer, as well as designing and creating a website for a chosen client. I will be looking in to different web terminologies and devising my own glossary to show that I have an understanding of the abbreviations used in creating websites. I will be creating a navigation bar and a sitemap, both of which will be used in my own website design, to show that I have created my own parts of the website from scratch. I will also be creating different style logos for myself and a client and comparing which work best with the style of the website, also I shall be creating navigation icons to place on my website, for example for Facebook and Twitter, so my website can be linked to social networking sites.

I will be looking into and comparing the different software's used to create websites, and finding out which I work best with, and therefore would use to create my final design. I will be comparing the functions and features of Wix, Moon-Fruit and Dream Weaver, but also trying out different free website creators, to see if they are easier to use for an armature website designer. I will also research other designers websites, to find out where they got their inspiration from, and if there are any design ideas which I could be inspired to use on my own website.

I will discuss the drawbacks of designing a website, and how I would solve these if it was me they would happen too. I will also be organising some studio shoots, so I can use some new photos for either my clients website of my selves, to show they variety of photography I use in my work. Also I will be devising my own independent research, to either help inspire the creation of my website design or help promote myself. After creating my clients website and mine, I will take it through the stages of analysis and review and refine the work, to see what I could improve on, or what needs to be changed. I will then conduct a survey to find out what other people think of my website, whether they would visit it again, and what they would change about it. I will then write up my findings in my final evaluation, and if I have time I will take into consideration their views, and refine my website even more.