Learning Activity – Get the Basics Right – week 19

Part one

• Explain the following terms in your own words:
  – The Internet: The internet links international computers and files together in order to share content.
  – HTML: This is a protocal, or a language, used between a client and the host in order to communicate.
  – Browser: A program alowing you to access web pages.
  – Search engine: A service capable of searching the webs files and content in order to find the most useful answers to your quiestion and request.

• Please research and add another 10 questions to the briefing process.

Here is the list provided in the lesson:

1. Get a good brief
2. Before designing anything, work out a website architecture or wireframe
3. Functionality: Don’t make the user think
4. Simplicity: Remove clutter
5. Create features that help users
6. Copywriting
7. Typography: Choose the right fonts
8. White space and the ability to create clean design
9. Web conventions: Don’t reinvent the wheel – it works
10. Make sure that you test everything

Mine:

1. Get to know the company and client. Info about company history, brand, size, staff and locations
2. Goals of the new site.
3. In-house requirements. How will the client manage the site
4. Hosting, support & maintenance
5. Online marketing & SEO
6. Budget
7. Problems you are facing
8. Requiered respons.
9. Traffic Generation
10. Sites comments, feed back, likes and dislikes.

• From this list of 20 questions , please create the ultimate list of 10 questions that you would use for clients.

1. Get a good brief
2. Before designing anything, work out a website architecture or wireframe
3. Get to know the company and client. Info about company history, brand, size, staff and locations
4. Goals of the new site.
5. Budget
6. Functionality: Don’t make the user think
7. Hosting, support & maintenance
8. Make sure that you test everything
9. Problems you are facing
10. In-house requirements. How will the client manage the site

• Part two

Surf the web and find 10 sites you would consider to be great websites.

https://www.nrk.no/

I like it’s simple design. The navigation is clear and user friendly.

https://www.aftenposten.no/

The navigation is user friendly and the elegant design suits this news paper’s target audience.

http://www.djcarchitect.com/

https://aforkandapencil.com/

https://www.averycoxdesign.com/home

https://www.verdesigns.com/

https://www.joshrubietta.com/

Home

https://blazinphoto.com/

http://www.harisnukem.com/

Simultaneously, make a list of 10 sites you consider bad web sites. Remember to describe why you would define them as such. Upload your lists on your blog.

Research:

How To Write The Perfect Website Brief

How to Write a Web Design Brief (Template Included!)

https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/best-websites-2020/