Work for Year 10 Periods 1 and 2 Tuesday

Dear all,

Sorry I cant be with you today, meetings i have to attend instead. Your tasks for today, in order of importance, are as follows:

1. Complete your Unit 2 Website Design work. This means you must have open the model assignment and the markscheme pdf documents and then work through tasks 1 - 7. Most of you should be well on your way to finishing and should be working on tasks six and seven, testing and evaluating your website. Make sure you save your evidence for tasks six and seven in folders AO6 and AO7 and remember, you should have two versions of your website, the one that you created originally and the improved version that was created when you alter the website after the testing phase in AO6.

Make sure as well that your designs for your website in AO2 match your eventual website - you have probably changed a fair bit from the design stage so go back and re-engineer your designs to match if need be. Your designs need to be fully explained too.

2. If you have finished your website, your task for lesson two and for the rest of the term is to create a multimedia website for a small business. This could be any small business but some ideas could be a trade such as plumber, builder or landscape gardener; a retailer such as a music shop, florist or clothes store; a service such as doctors surgery, car park or church; or online only business like a holiday firm, web design business or virtual university. The best website will be published to the web via a new web site we will purchase online!

For your website - make sure you do the following:

a) Decide which business you want to focus on and research exisiting websites to get some ideas about what sort of sites they have.
b) Create a logo and an advertising banner on Webplus to use on your website.
c) Create a six to seven page website to advertise the business. Suggested pages to include:
i) Master page to include navigation bar, colour scheme and logo
ii) Homepage with advertising banner and welcome image
iii) Examples of past work/jobs
iv) Stock list (e.g. for record shop/florist)
v) Location - where to find them
vi) Contact details - how to get in touch
vii) Customer opinions - feedback via a form

Throughout your site, make sure you make use of a wide range of the following website features:

- Tables to organise pictures, text etc
- Sound to welcome people to the website
- Images to illustrate the good featires of your business, things you sell etc
- Video to bring your site to life
- Marquees (scrolling text) to make announcements
- Forms to get opinions from your website visitors
- Flash animation to bring your advertising to life
- Caldendars to give communicate key dates
- Email addresses to enable people to get in touch with you
- Hyperlinks to access external websites
- Navigation bars to help users get around your site

The best sites not only work well but also look good - spend some time thinking about good designs/colour schemes/fonts etc for your website.

Thanks

Mr. B