Cert 4 Web Design Cluster; Week 4.
Assignment 1 — Analyse Requirements
Week 4 assignment time we have to write a brief for the project that we are planning to do. For the assessment there has to be a Summarising Brief of the clients web site, Evaluate what sort of Social Media plug ins will be used. Make a sketch design how the web pages will be laid out and what sort of content will be on these pages. The last thing is to give constructive feedback to value class members on their Medium Blogs.
Summarising the Brief
The Brief for Close Shave Barber Shop is to have on-line presence to market themselves to the public and their client-al. Show casing their eccentric store of rock-a-billy music, tattoos and their good handy work of hair and beard cuts.
They are after their own web site with a rock-a-billy theme, the services they provide and hair produces they sail to the public.
Additional feature what they are after is to have a social medium connection with the public, so their client-al can have a social discourse with Close Shave Barber Shop. The two social media out lets will be a Facebook page and an Instagram page to share photos.
Other features they want to be included is an interactive map location for some client-al have difficulty locating where the shop is located will use a Google Map location. They want also want add an on-line booking system for more client-al have asked if they can make a positive time have a haircut.
Client Requirements and Goals
A web site to market themselves to the public, with two social media content (Facebook, Instagram), a location map so client-al can find their shop location and an on-line booking service for their client-al that want a fixed appointment for their hair cut instead of just walking in and having to wait for their hair cut. Show casing Close Shave Barber Shop eccentric to the community.
Target Audiences
The target audience is the rock-a-billy community and people that want a good hair cut in a relax setting.
Technical Requirements
The web site will be a custom build solution build out of HTML 5, CSS 3 and Java Script. Use XAMPP server solution to test the custom web to make shore the web pages interact properly before publishing the web site to the internet.
Market Research
http://www.rooksbarbershop.com/ A nice clean one page web site in grey tone with social media plug ins to Facebook, twitter, Instagram and on-line booking system using Gen Book Inc.
http://oldfamiliarbarbershop.com/ Home page is just a log with a contents pages at top of Services offered, Location, The Barbers, Blog, OFBS Facebook, Products FOR SALE, Familiar For Life, Instagram and a Contact Us page. Another nice clean web site easy to locate information. Good simple colour scheme of lots of black back ground, golden brown contents bar. With light yellow cream back ground for text areas with brown text which is easy to read.
http://www.hawleywoods.com/ Another simple and clean looking web site with a scrolling photo images staff servicing clients and things they sail. With the business logo in the top left hand corner and contents bar next to it Home, Shops, Services, Goods, Story. It also like the use of a black back ground to build their context on top off.
http://humaan.com I like the hover animations on this web site found this web site from http://www.awwwards.com/6-web-design-trends-you-must-know-for-2015-2016.html the idea for hover animations is to give the viewer a more intuitive feel to the web page when the mouse is moved over content to give a automatic visual feedback.
Proposal
The proposal is to use elements of all three web site to build and design for Close Shave Barber Shop web site. And to see if I can incorporate some of the ideas from 6 Web Design Trends You must Know For 2015–2016. Will get a clear picture once start doing sketch in how the pages are layout.
Evaluating Social Media Options
Social Media is a dammed if you do or a dammed if you don’t it is good system to get to a bigger target audience for your business and make the web page more dynamic. But you need to feed the beast most days for you can’t feed it once and hope it can look after it self for it will die of hunger.
Social media is good on getting feedback straight away but need to be able to deal with good and bad criticism which can blow up very quickly on social networks. Close Shave Barber Shop needs to deal with negative feed back to work out where they can make improvements in their service. By getting in contact with the person and see if they can resolve the problem that has occurred.
Web Design Sketch Layout
