I have concluded from this research that all sites have common elements and they are usually elements that a site cannot work without. They are for convenience and to improve the layout. There should be bright and attractive colours in my site, with a possible drop down box for the navigation tabs, to make it all look hi-tech. I won't include too many tabs in the navigation bar, so I may stick to around seven or eight of them, as that is the sufficient amount.
I will split my home page up into sections and each section will be a summary of the different tabs in the navigation bar. For example, on the home page, there will be a small box labelled 'news' and it will show the top 2-3 stories, with links to the full articles. By clicking on the 'News' tab, the user will be taken to the full page with all of the stories, not just the top few. I may make some working links for the top 2-3 stories, just to expand on the site a little.
The other sections of the home page will show things like what's showing in the channel, downloads such as mp3's and wallpapers, videos and maybe an image gallery. I am considering not including the images. Either that, or I will not link a page to the image tab and just have it there for show. I don't think images are relevant and any images I use would violate copyright law, since I can't exactly take pictures of my friends and I, and include them.
I may take some information on the current music chart at the time from a site like MTV, in order to get accurate results for the finished site. I will also include different genre charts on the Music page for the people who don't like the charts and think that it's all corrupted by R'n'B... *sigh*
So there will be some Rock, Metal, Country, Rap, Hip Hop, R'n'B and other music genres to attract a wide range of users to the site...
I'm thinking of names for the site and right now I'm liking the name "Ben FM". Yes, it's ridiculous; yes, it's stupid... But I think it has a ring to it and I like it. Other names I have been considering are "Epic Radio", "Awesome Radio" and "The Ben Channel". I am thinking of mixing the names to either get "Epic FM" or "The Awesome Channel."
A good conclusion to this part of your research.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the elements that a site can't do without??? These are the codes and conventions.
A good start to your planning made here - you're definitely thinking about how you want your own site to look.
A few sketches or layout drawings would be useful here.