My Interview Video

FMP Evaluation

I was assigned a task to create a product for the Bath Chronicle to help them get more readers. My product was a webpage redesign of their ‘What’s On’ section. I did this because the current ‘What’s On’ Section isn’t very good and could do with a lot of improvements. In the final design there were a few strengths and weaknesses.

The page colour, layout, text, images and buttons all helped the page a lot and made the product great because it was pretty and easy to navigate around. Sadly some of the buttons were a let down and didn’t work. Some of the background shifted on each page. The Bath Chronicle logo occasionally moved slightly when changing to a new page. The page wasn’t full, there is a little gap down the outside which I would have liked to fill. And finally some of the images didn’t belong to me which could be a copyright issue. If they were to use my product I’d have to change the images or ask the original owner for permission.

The main theme of the page was to do with the Bath Chronicle. The background was Blue with white text just like the real Chronicle’s webpage. I was almost influenced to change it slightly by many different websites but in the end kept the blue and white. A few websites I went on for influence were ‘The List’ Newspaper Website and ‘Total Guide To Bath’; they helped me come up with the channel navigation and helped work on text and colour.

I tried to change the colour to see if it would make a difference by making it red. But in the end I kept the blue and didn’t bother with the red mainly because it didn't really improve it and it was important to keep the blue theme which the Chronicle always uses.

A design similar to mine is ‘Total Guide To Bath’, they have the same kind of layout and button colours that I have. I used them as an inspiration when creating mine. Now comparing the two, ‘Total Guide To Bath’ Is a lot different to mine. Even though I based it on ‘Total Guide To Bath’, The similarities are the button colour, font and background colour.

The main things I tried to change and develop the most was research. I needed to do a lot of research filming information about places around Bath that tourists might want to visit that could go on the ‘What’s On’ section. I also tried hard on design. Trying to make it work the with Bath Chronicle fonts and seeing what it would be like with different colours.

I completed everything I set out to do and even added a few things. I turned some images into buttons that take you to the website that the topic is about. That I originally wasn’t going to do but did in the end. I added a few things but apart from that nothing really changed.

The client said they were already planning on doing my idea. In a few months they are going to redesign the websites ‘What’s On’ section. So in a way my idea might change the way they redesign their website. They might actually use my project. I felt really happy to know that my idea was kind of going to be used.

I could have added more information to each page: I only had 3 things to do on each page; only 3 restaurants, only 3 shops, only 3 museums; I could perhaps have included more information. It was important to have quality rather than quantity.

The work seems appropriate for the final project. The client didn’t complain about anything and said the project was a great idea. It answered the brief very well.

I think the pitch when really well. The client or James never said I did anything wrong. James did give me a 1 minute left warning and I rushed the ending a bit which he did notice. However it went better than I expected. I was worried I didn’t have enough information but turns out I nearly ran over time. The feedback from the client was that the Chronicle are already planning on updating the ‘What’s On’ section anyway. She said I did the speech really well. James said I did the speech good too. He said the idea was clever. Next time I need to try and make my presentation shorter and not rush towards the end.

My Embed FMP Project

Progress: Research

Before I began making the Product I did a lot of research trying to find things around Bath and how to get to them.

I also found many different websites similar to what I was making and finding where they went wrong and what I could use from their websites.

The colour and font used for 'The Guardian'
is very similar to what I chose to do 

Lots of the websites I liked at didn't have much information about how to get to these places. What bus to take? Is it close to the railway station? Are there taxis near by? etc. This is something I have chosen to include in my website.

Screenshot Of My Layout
Including Taxi, Bus & Railway Information

Peer Assessments

We recently all assessed each others google briefs and bloggers. Here is the feedback people gave me

Seb assessed my Brief 

I originally put my google docs in the wrong place in my brief. I have now moved them so its better. All my links work so everything is ok in my Brief.

Seb also gave me feedback on my Product: He said he liked it a lot but maybe add another colour or make some stuff transparent. He liked the design, concept, colours and where the logo is positioned. He also said he could see the Bath Chronicle using this. He was impressed with the interactive buttons

Progress: The Last Week

I have got a lot done. I only have 3 pages left to edit out of 8. I need to add a few more buttons to pages 1 to 5. But overall everything is slowly getting done. By Tuesday Afternoon I hope to have the website done.

Editing One Of The Pages
2nd May 2015 10:37

Things left to do:
Complete Assignment 4
Start Assignment 5 by making presentation
Finish Presentation
Practice Presentation

Progress: Making Product

Since 28th April I have been editing my Product. I am making 8 pages for a website. I am using buttons to navigate around the web sites. These buttons will take you to different pages with different information on. You will also be able to click on the Bath Chronicle Website which will take you bak to the home page.

Creating the first page by adding
top 5 things of the week section
28th April 2015 10:57

 It took me about a day to make page one. I managed to get some of the buttons done and started two other pages that day.

Finishing the first page
5th May 2015 10:33

On the 11th May I managed to get 3 more pages done and began adding buttons to these 3 pages.

Editing the 4 page out of 8
11th May 2015 11.59