Evaluation
research - What? So What?? Now What???
planning - What? So What?? Now What???
production - What? So What?? Now What???
ending
What?
My original idea for the website was for a D&D website. Several ideas came off of this including websites for local groups, online players, content creators, DM tools, a store, and a character creator. Eventually I decided against that and other ideas due to the inability to find a large enough requirement for one. My final idea was a website for Denny's fish and chips shop. I chose this specifically because it didn't already have a website and I knew a fair bit of information about it already, thus allowing me to easily create a suitable website.
So What?
By looking into several different ideas and concepts before settling on something let be judge the merits and flaws of the ideas better as I had more to compare them to. Although on that part I feel I didn't do as well as I could as I didn't describe my decision making process all too much and the information I gave for each idea was lacklustre at best. As for the drafts, I feel they helped quite a bit in the long run with helping me decide on how I wanted to make the final website. I actually leaned more on the first draft than the second as i felt there was not enough information to have a need to be displayed on multiple pages. The one thing I felt I lacked was good annotation and post description of each of them. Both have only a couple of lines describing them, and with my lack of legible handwriting it severely needed more.
Now What?
All in all I think the main thing I would do next time is add more description. I would describe the different ideas and maybe even present more of a basic website idea for each rather then just one or two. Also I would do far more description for my ideas and even have more drafts of the website before moving on. In general I also think I could have done more for my idea in general than the two things I did do, like flow charts or mind maps or mood boards, just something extra to flesh out my idea process. Hell, currently this is a better Ideas page than the Ideas page.
Research
What?
In research I first looked at and noted several aspects of how computers use the internet and how it works, such as how packets are passed though gateways and that HTTP(S) is the rules that a webpage follows. The next thing I did was look into 3 relevant websites and attempted to wright what target demographic it was aiming for to help determine what target audience my website should aim for. Afterwards I did some designing, coming up with a couple rough drafts of the website following some research I did into similar websites. Next I looked into design features of different websites such as McDonalds, Google, and a small selection of Fish and Chips shops and took screen captures of interesting sections we liked and wanted to use.
So What?
In hindsight the research into how the internet works didn't particularly help as I knew most of what I learned already from my two technology based GCSE's, and furthermore the information wasn't useful for the project itself, just an interesting and sometimes slightly handy to be aware of. Also the information I had on how the internet worked was terribly lacking in just about anything. It barely had any information past bullet point information. As for the target audience research into other websites, I barely did what I wanted to do for the first one, yet alone the other 2 examples. It did somewhat help, but it would have helped far more if I had finished them. The screen captures of the different websites was the most successful of all the research as I ended up using 4 of the 5 I went into detail with in some way in my final design.
Now What?
If I was to redo the explanation of the internet then I would actually explain it rather than making a bullet point explanation, and I would have information on each section. Of course due to the irrelevancy of the information I likely wont actually use, I'll try to avoid that kind of research again in the future. Now, I would definitely do the demographic research again, but this time actually finish it. I feel like it would help massively later on but unfortunately I barely completed any of it, therefor I didn't benefit from it as much. If I do the screen capturing website sections again I shall certainly look for more examples and try more varied array of websites, but other than that I think I should do it the same way as it helped a lot.
planning - What? So What?? Now What???
production - What? So What?? Now What???
ending
What?
My original idea for the website was for a D&D website. Several ideas came off of this including websites for local groups, online players, content creators, DM tools, a store, and a character creator. Eventually I decided against that and other ideas due to the inability to find a large enough requirement for one. My final idea was a website for Denny's fish and chips shop. I chose this specifically because it didn't already have a website and I knew a fair bit of information about it already, thus allowing me to easily create a suitable website.
So What?
By looking into several different ideas and concepts before settling on something let be judge the merits and flaws of the ideas better as I had more to compare them to. Although on that part I feel I didn't do as well as I could as I didn't describe my decision making process all too much and the information I gave for each idea was lacklustre at best. As for the drafts, I feel they helped quite a bit in the long run with helping me decide on how I wanted to make the final website. I actually leaned more on the first draft than the second as i felt there was not enough information to have a need to be displayed on multiple pages. The one thing I felt I lacked was good annotation and post description of each of them. Both have only a couple of lines describing them, and with my lack of legible handwriting it severely needed more.
Now What?
All in all I think the main thing I would do next time is add more description. I would describe the different ideas and maybe even present more of a basic website idea for each rather then just one or two. Also I would do far more description for my ideas and even have more drafts of the website before moving on. In general I also think I could have done more for my idea in general than the two things I did do, like flow charts or mind maps or mood boards, just something extra to flesh out my idea process. Hell, currently this is a better Ideas page than the Ideas page.
Research
What?
In research I first looked at and noted several aspects of how computers use the internet and how it works, such as how packets are passed though gateways and that HTTP(S) is the rules that a webpage follows. The next thing I did was look into 3 relevant websites and attempted to wright what target demographic it was aiming for to help determine what target audience my website should aim for. Afterwards I did some designing, coming up with a couple rough drafts of the website following some research I did into similar websites. Next I looked into design features of different websites such as McDonalds, Google, and a small selection of Fish and Chips shops and took screen captures of interesting sections we liked and wanted to use.
So What?
In hindsight the research into how the internet works didn't particularly help as I knew most of what I learned already from my two technology based GCSE's, and furthermore the information wasn't useful for the project itself, just an interesting and sometimes slightly handy to be aware of. Also the information I had on how the internet worked was terribly lacking in just about anything. It barely had any information past bullet point information. As for the target audience research into other websites, I barely did what I wanted to do for the first one, yet alone the other 2 examples. It did somewhat help, but it would have helped far more if I had finished them. The screen captures of the different websites was the most successful of all the research as I ended up using 4 of the 5 I went into detail with in some way in my final design.
Now What?
If I was to redo the explanation of the internet then I would actually explain it rather than making a bullet point explanation, and I would have information on each section. Of course due to the irrelevancy of the information I likely wont actually use, I'll try to avoid that kind of research again in the future. Now, I would definitely do the demographic research again, but this time actually finish it. I feel like it would help massively later on but unfortunately I barely completed any of it, therefor I didn't benefit from it as much. If I do the screen capturing website sections again I shall certainly look for more examples and try more varied array of websites, but other than that I think I should do it the same way as it helped a lot.
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