Design a 5-page website or blog to promote your hometown (or any other place if you so choose). Present your design along with a strategy that explains the decisions you’ve made during the design process (keep the six steps mentioned in the lesson Web Design Process: Designing for Web (part 2) in mind). Remember, it’s important for us to see how you think, so explain why you decided to do things the way you did.
Examples:
Both webpages look professional, sleek and have a large space dedicated to pictures/videos, and more information further down on the page. This works really well, and looks enticing.
Strategy:
- Establish Goals: The goal is to raise awareness about possible activities in Ålesund, and for the visitors to find information quickly. Establish itself as the go-to webpage for information about Ålesund.
- Who is your audience: Anyone who likes to travel might try searching for their destination, but the main groups could be young adults (into backpacking or travelling) and adult/middle aged people looking for an inland vacation. One could also keep tourists in mind, but the automatic translation services work fairly well, so this will not be a concern for this task.
- The brand’s image: Based on the goal, the page should be professional looking, not too goofy, vibrant or hipster, but fresh, clean and closely tied to nature/the city aesthetic when it comes to the look. Mixing the old with the new could also be an idea.
- Solve the problem: The main problem is how to pack as much essential information as posssible into the pages without it looking cluttered, and also implementing enough medium such as pictures/videos/interactive elements.
- Measure your results: This can be done through Google Analytics at a later stage.
- Always look for little improvements: This is fairly self-explanatory.
Result:
Sources:
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:%C3%85lesund_komm.svg
https://no.fjordnorway.com/planlegg-turen/mat-og-drikke/zuuma-p1526853
https://pixabay.com/photos/man-businessman-professional-suit-5583034/
https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/byvandring-%C3%85lesund-med-guide/203010/
https://no.visitalesund.com/sja-and-gjere/rib-turer-og-havsafari-p950443
https://nohat.cc/f/happy-professional-free-photo/6ac3109787d24d9b8391-201909010900.html
https://unsplash.com/photos/75xPHEQBmvA
https://www.smp.no/alesund/2017/07/10/G%C3%A5gata-blir-bilfri-14998753.ece
https://www.smp.no/nyheter/2017/05/26/Over-50-store-kj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8yer-daglig-14783059.ece