Design for Web // What a website is/ needs

What is the purpose of a website?

These are the obvious reasons that people would have / use a website

• Promotion
• Informing
• Persuasion
• Contact
• (Entertainment)

The audience of a website is

• NEVER EVERYONE

3 main things a website should have

• Useability
• Functionality
• Aesthetics 

When Considering the design of the website you need to

•  Start designing on page NOT on screen 

What does a website need? 

 A website generally should consist of 4 /5 pages 

• Landing page

- Why? What's the point?

• Home Page 

- Grab Attention
- Could have running news page on your homepage a little like a blog
- Put what you want on it but you need to make it interesting
- Most important page on the website 

• Contact Page  

- Business address or some address for contact
- Email
- Phone
- Twitter

-Possible to just have a footer on all pages / home page so contacts could be accessed all the time  

• About Page 

- Info about career history and education
- Your interests in design
- Your skills and specialties 

• CV

- is it needed? too much like About page 
- Most clients wont care

• Portfolio 

- don't split the portfolio page into sections (typography, editorial etc...) as this will limit the amount of work you will seem to have 

• Shop

- If you produce your own products

• Blog

- Blog of design interests
- Could incorporate blog onto home h=page, maybe turn it into a news page 

• Fees

- Not needed really
- Can adjust fees as necessary
- Would work better on a printing website

After quickly creating our simple Home page layout we all went round on a quick crit so we all got some positive and negative feedback.
Here are some of the main points that kept on being raised throughout the group

• Clean Layout but unoriginal
• Navigation
• Redundant features
• Kiss (Keep it simple stupid)
• Grids