Learner Diary

Week 1,
During the first week we were introduced into a new way of analyzing media text using 'Distinct' and with this method you can analyse any media text you want. For those who don't know what Distinct is then the picture here --->
this picture will provide you with everything you need!

Week 2.
We have been given a task to redesign the East Norfolk College
Sixth form website and make it suitable for all genders and specifically
people aged between 15/17 years as these are the ages looking to apply
and attend college. We were given this brief by the client.
Brief: What the client wants us to do.
Client: East Norfolk Marketing Team

Primary audience: The main people you want your website to target.
Secondary audience: people who may be interested in your website that you might pick-up along the way
Demographic: What age group and sex your website will be aimed towards for exmaple 13yr to 18yr male.







Week 3,

This week we gave been analysing websites and identifying how they are or not suitable for all genders. A primary audience is someone who you really want to target mainly for example if your website was about popular gamer releases then your main target is gamers. Secondary audience is people who you don't particular plan on targeting another example for this would be perfume designed for women however males are interested too. Brand identity is a companies icon they use to represent them, another name for this is also a logo such as the monster logo.












Week 4,
During week 4 we learned about hex codes, a code is used for different types of colour for example using #000000 as a colour code will give you black, there are various codes that gives you various colours you can find out more about this with the picture provided below. This week we have also learned about typography and this is how a font is made. There are 3 main font groups and these are: Sans, Sans serif and mono-space. Serif font has the extra flick on the end of the text however sans-serif doesn't and mono-space gives every letter the same spacing in between. We also learned about the layout for certain websites such as the 3 box layout where one main picture or slideshow is presented in the middle of the page and 2 boxes with pictures in at the bottom, also we learned how to add a bunch of media to a website then add a fixed navigation bar so it follows you while you scroll down the page. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system on which it operates, which is not always the case. In CSS a font family is a set of related fonts and grouped as font families. Font families include include different font sizes, styles and weight for exmaple, font: roman, italic etc. weight: regular, bold etc.

Week 5,
We have been creating various types of website templates for our East Norfolk website we were told to redesign. This will help us when making the mock up because we can have different layouts to chose from and see what ones best. In my opinion the website layout that I have made for the redesign would suit the target audience etc because there will be enough boxes on the homepage for various amounts of news also includes clean text and bright colours. My favourite website layout when researching the designs would have to be the 4 box home page layout. When making our redesigned East Norfolk website we made a mock up on PowerPoint to see how everything looks and if anything needs to be changed/improved.