Evaluation. (start)

My task has been to create a website for a new T.V Channel. This has to contain at least at least three hyperlinked pages, my own text and my own videos. As an ancillary text I am required to make an ident for my videos, this will go at the start, and that will represent the channel. For my second ancillary text I am creating a newspaper advertisement. When I have done all these I am going to create a audience feedback questionnaire and ask people who I have aimed my website at to answer some questions so I know where I have gone wrong in my creation. When creating my video for my site I realized one small video was not enough. This is when I decided to make a second. All the footage in my videos has to be original.

Compared to my AS brief this is difficult. For AS I had to create a music magazine cover, a contents page and double page spread. The only similarity between the two tasks was, the pictures, text and any footage had to be original.

For research and planning I;
Looked at other websites for codes and conventions
Looked at other websites of the same genre
Looked at websites in general
Looked at layouts of websites and how or what types of information shared a page.
When planning I;
Kept in mind the layout of the websites I had looked at
Kept in mind the font style I used, this was to make it easier to read.
Choosing the name.
When it came to choosing the name I had to create a poll on my blog. I had three choices, these where; Cookstienclerk, King Cooking and Mixture Cooking. After my audience voted the name chosen was Cookstienclerk. Each of the three names had four different font styles. When I picked the one to use I didn’t ask the audience I choose it because it looked sophisticated as well as readable.

Before I had started to plan out my work I had done a small poll on my blog. This asked the perspective audience what they wanted to see and what should be created. There where a few obvious things that I had to make sure where done no matter what difficulty they where. However, they where just simple things such as; readable text and viewable graphics and images. Some images also needed to be self explanatory. I also had to include a short video as part of the site. I didn’t know what type of video to first create so I did a poll again on my blog. This helped me decide to do a cake video, this is because 62% of my audience prefer to cook deserts and cakes. This video turned out well however was slightly short so I therefore made a second on how to cook Chicken and Sweet Corn soup.

In my planning I knew there where certain things had to be done in my site. The text had to be simple, images had to be self explanatory. I had to include a video as part of my brief however I didn’t know what type of video to create. This is where the a poll on blogger came in. When I did this the question I asked was “What would you rather cook?”. The answers I gave as a choice was “Main course, Deserts, Starters”. My audience favorite was desert. 62% of them said they would rather cook cakes and deserts than main course’s or starters. This is when I choose to do a cake video, however, this was not enough. I then decided to create a second video. This was of a soup being made. I choose soup because 28% of my audience like to cook soups and starters.

In my planning I also looked at other websites. I found a lot of conventions of websites such as;
Jakob Nielson’s 10 Heuristics. This is only four. The others are all on my blog and explained.
· Visibility of Systems Status; The system should always tell the user what is going on so that they don't become inpatient with the system.
· Match between system and the real world; The system should use terms and language the users know. It should use real world conventions and appear in a correct order.
· User Control and Freedom; If a user clicks on an unwanted connection there should be a clear way back to the original site. This means easy undo and redo.
· Consistency and Standards; Things should be easy to understand, straight forward and constant.
When looking at different cooking sites I also found that they are bright and colourfull. This is what gave me the idea of making each page different.

My audience was thought of right through the production. I am aiming it at students just leaving home maybe going to university. My website of cooking videos may be aimed at those who like to explore and look at different things to cook.