1. Planning a website by Jacob McCormack There are lots of things to think about when deciding about creating a website…

2. Designing a Website 1. Topic Hobby Band Club Sports 2. Audience Who are they? Where are they from? What will they want to see? What kinds of info will be needed? 3. Key Terms Wording (Subject Spec) Hot Words/Hyperlinks 4. Layout Pictures Frames Borders Tables Text Boxes 5. General Interface Background (image/colour) Buttons Menus 6. Logo Existing? Your Own? Watermark effect? Small in a corner? 7. Title Font Font Colour Font Size 8. Body Text Font Font Colour Font Size 9. Pictures Of what? From Where? Links? 10. Navigation Order of pages Web Schema Why in order? What links what?

3. You will now plan your website For homework I asked you to identify what you want to create a website about. You will now put together a presentation using the slides following this one to plan your site ready to build it next week.

4. 1. Topic I have chosen to create a website about…a Warhammer community site This is because…it is my hobby and has a global fan base. Ideas… Hobby Band Club Sports

5. 2. Audience The type of person that would visit my site is… Warhammer collectors They will be particularly interested in seeing…reviews and discussions about new armies and their own army. Ideas… Who are they? Where are they from? What will they want to see? What kinds of information will be needed?

6. 3. Key Words I will need to use words related to my topic these will include…warhammer 40k community Ideas… Wording (Subject Specific) Hot Words/Hyperlinks

7. 4. Layout I want my website to include…videos made by people and a chat room for certain armies and collectors. Ideas… Pictures Frames Borders Tables Text Boxes

8. 5. General Interface (what it looks like) In the background I will have…a picture of the warhammer logo and a scrolling animation of all the recent armies updates. I will use buttons to….link to certain army chat and video rooms My buttons will look like…the symbol of the army it stands for. Ideas… Background (image / colour) Buttons (square / round/ animated/ picture / change colour)

9. 6. Logo Will your website have a logo? Yes it will. Where will it come from? The citadel warhammer logo. Paste it here… Ideas… Existing? Your Own? Watermark effect? Small in a corner?

10. 7/8. Title & Body Text What will the title be…warhammer 40k community. What type of font/writing will you use? What size writing will it be?it will be big bold writting. Ideas… Font Font Colour Font Size

11. 9. Pictures Paste the pictures you want to use here… Where are they from? (i.e. internet, digital camera) These symbols are from some of the armies inthe warrammer 40k models by citadel.

12. 10. Navigation How many pages will you webpage have? As many pages as there are armies and each army page will have a link to the warhammer website. What will each of these pages show? They will show chat rooms and their pictures and links to other warrhammer websites.

13. Other ideas and pictures With each army page there will be sections where you can add videos and post it in the chat room. If possible before you enter the website you add the name you want to be called and what army you collect then you are sent directly to the chat room and you have the option to go to the home and look at news and go into other armies chat rooms.