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Building The Website: The Ideas Behind It

29/04/2012 14:16
My idea for the website was to create a simple and intuitive website to represent the organisation I had chosen. Being able to choose the organisation was fun but also useful in practical terms. It created enthusiasm and interest in the project and, having chosen, allowed a mix of research...

Building The Website: The Structure

14/06/2012 13:57
Defining the site architecture beforehand was essential. I looked at many examples of other library websites to for comparisons and to understand the method behind their structure, hoping to find a consensus of approach, and was interested in the variation as much as the...

Building The Website: The Details

14/06/2012 13:58
There was a balance to be struck, I feel, between and fleshing-out the details, which it would be easy to get carried-away with. For instance providing local information or creating tweets for the fictional account. I worried a little about the ethics of making up details and creating fictional...

Building The Website: The Tools

14/06/2012 16:38
As someone new to website design and editing I found Webnode very usable. It’s very intuitive if you have some experience of modern software packages. Not being weighed down by the technical aspects of building a website allowed you to concentrate on structure, design and content. There was...