Wednesday, 17 February 2016

LO2 - Potential Revenue

The Small Machines website is a site that sells products, so the most obvious revenue that will be made from the website is the money earned from the sale of the products.
Another way to earn money from the website is sponsors.
Small Machines works with the Royal Armouries and sells some of their products on the Royal Armouries website, which might lead to the Royal Armouries wishing to advertise on the Small Machines website.
Small Machines is a small, independent business that is looking for lots of customers. If other small businesses sponsored the website and used it for advertisement, both businesses could benefit from the results.

Monday, 15 February 2016

LO2 - Budget

It would be preferable to have a premium account, which allows features such as a good shopping interface and a custom domain (being able to change the format of the URL from http://09harrisa.wix.com/smallmachines into something more suitable). This costs £10.42 per month for one year, which comes to a total of £125.04 for one year.

I used Adobe Photoshop to edit the images I took of the products. The cost to own Photoshop is £17.15 per month.

If I wanted to hire a professional freelance photographer to take commercial photographs for the website, the price for one day of shooting starts at around £400.


Friday, 12 February 2016

LO2 - Projected Launch Date

I hope to launch the website on Friday 26th February. All parts of production will be complete by that date.

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

LO2 - Legal and Ethical

Intellectual property
Copyright/Data protection

Because the website will be created using Wix, all

I need to make sure that my website doesn't contain copyrighted materials that aren't affiliated with the Small Machines company.
SSL would help to protect the data on the website if I needed a shopping feature in which customers would use their bank card details to purchase products.

The content of the website needs to be suitable for all audiences including children, and not contain anything unsuitable. The ASA covers all media and my website should comply within its rules.

WaSP is a web organisation that keeps websites' data organised, accessible and easy to display on all browsers. My website will be accessible on all browsers and any issues in the code/display of the website will be fixed.

Monday, 8 February 2016

LO2 - Information Flow

The main way of navigating the website that the audience will use is the navigation bar at the top of every page in the header. There will be other ways such as titles and images on every seperate page, linking to different parts of the website in many different ways.
Another way that allows users to navigate a website is a site map. A site map contains all of the pages on the website on another page. The Apple website's site map is a good example:



Friday, 5 February 2016

LO2 - Technical Learning: Code Academy (2)


I started looking at how CSS affects a web page.



It goes into detail with different features that you can alter.

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

LO2 - Code Academy recap

Last lesson I used codecademy.com to learn the basics of coding HTML.

Most of the terms covered were new to me, such as "ul" and li", which creates a set of bullet points with ul showing the start and end and li starting each new point.

I will need to use nearly all of the HTML features that have been and will be covered on Code Academy.