Wednesday 28 March 2012

Dreamweaver Workshop 1 : Web Seminar

When designing a website all of the initial stages are completed by hand and not on screen, Its the preparation that makes a successful piece of design not just the making of.

Purpose;

-To showcase work
-To get further work
-Employment
-Freelance

Target Audience;

-Design studios
-Co-operative clients
-Events and exhibitions
-Independent buyers
-Co-laborators
-awards/like minded people

Audience Needs;

-Work Examples
-Contact Details

Things to look for when buying webspace: Unlimited Bandwidth/FTP
A company based in the U.K one.com

A few examples of successful and simple, open planned websites;




 When  working with design for web there are only a select amount of colours to work with. These are called web safe colours, and are represented with a hexadecimal code. 

Adobes Kuler Website is perfect for selecting colours that are safe to work with web.




 For next sessions find a series of websites that inspire you and make some notes on them, work out why the website is good, how the navigation works, what content does it hold? Is the design effective, and does it communicate well? Draw up some initial drawings for you own website and put together a minimum of 3 scamps.

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