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What subject:
The subject is FDSC Applied Computing Degree
Client Requirements:
The client requires a website promoting this degree
What purpose or message:
The purpose is to attract students to the computing degree and encourage a larger audience for enrolment.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this project will be people of the age of eighteen and over. It would target those that have an interest in learning about Computers on a wider scale. It does however differ in that this degree can be studied whilst staying at home in the local college in Dolgellau (Meirion Dwyfor ). There are no commitments in providing student accommodation. Since it covers six modules in the first year and will require a lot of time and dedication and follows onto in-depth of these in the second year it would require a student available to commit to this study on a full-time basis. The target audience would therefore be people who would be looking to study without incurring extra accommodation costs, but would have the time to study on a full-time basis.
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Funding:
This is also available to all students accepted on the course through a student loan
scheme.
------ Julie ------My evidence of web site investigations
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying/courses/undergraduate/2013/computing
The above are two website advertising a computing degree. Although I had looked at many others I selected these two in particular since I felt they had much simpler layout to follow. I have selected some images from free stock for possible use in some of the pages. These are loaded onto the popplet site. I know that as a group we will be looking at slide show, a video and a Photoshop banner.
Computing, Foundation Degree (Bexley College)
· Overview
· Contents
This programme develops the knowledge and skills appropriate for employment as computing and IT professionals. It provides opportunities to study areas to current industry standards, in a programme that is constantly being updated to cover new developments.
The programme reflects current trends and skills needed in the sector. It covers all the main branches of computing including programming using Java and C#, internet technologies, network systems,mobile devices, communication systems, UML in systems building and the use of SQL in database development.
It also includes an element of work based learning which allows students to engage an employer and to add to further career development. Upon successful completion of the Foundation Degree, students can progress into the final year of the BSc (Hons) Computing degreeat the University of Greenwich.
Gains from the Foundation Degree:
- This programme will enable you to study areas to current industry standards
- It is constantly being updated to cover new developments
- It reflects the current trends and forecasts skills needs in the sector
This is a snap shot of the overview page. I will put these two for the group to see and discuss their research findings.
Tim: These sites are two good examples. Both sites provide clear and concise information, and sections are clearly labeled.
Tim: These sites are two good examples. Both sites provide clear and concise information, and sections are clearly labeled.
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We have discussed our findings and this is documented in our meeting agenda.
Further to this my individual elements(slide show images) as agreed in our group meeting are displayed in our group blog. I will be looking at banners before deciding upon its design.
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It was decided that our banner would be a compostion of the college site images. there would be three to four images which then would be merged together to created a slighty blur background for the banner. The college icon and name would appear as text at the front.
For this individual element I will be taking my own shots of the college and using the photshop skills to create the backround along with the college logo and name.
For this individual element I will be taking my own shots of the college and using the photshop skills to create the backround along with the college logo and name.
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The above is a banner that I have looked at and will be looking to implement a similar design to our website. Because our target audience are students I will not need to have a show of the landscape surroundings. It will also not need to have so much sharpness as this again is not necessary for our target audience.
Text Content -
- welcome blurb
- College logo and name
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Consideration of colour theory
Consideration of colour theory
this is the homepage for colege llandrillo. The colour scheme is an analogous (means that the colours are all very close to each other on the colour wheel) selection of blues, so, our site's colour scheme should use the same colours in order to a) assure users that they are still viewing a course run by Coleg llandrillo, b) give a feeling of unity between course site and college site and c) blue is a cool, neutral colour that is neither offensive or dull, it is also a modern colour, which is a good thing when considering a technology course!
