Megan Harris

So, for my final project I am going to do a website for a client. The client is a young athlete and I’m close with his family.

The Pages would include:

• Home Page
• Contact
• Media (Photos and Videos)
• Achievements
• Bio (?)
• Sponsors

For the interview, I plan to interview him about how he got into the sport as well as how he’s disciplined himself to progress. B-Roll would include him wake boarding and also still clips of the lake (maybe TSR)

For my next website I want it to surround music. I feel like most of the content would be blog-based, and each page about something specific involving music.

My vision for my pages would go something similar to:

1. Home Page (info, recent featured blog posts, etc.)
2. Music Festivals / Concerts (In the ATX area)
   1. SXSW would have a main feature on the page for updates involving rsvps, the schedule, artists, etc. Spotify playlist for bands coming.
   2. General music festival information. dates, lineups, etc.
3. Photos. Sure, there will be photos embedded on the concerts page in posts, but I’d like a gallery of all photos on the site in one spot, in a slider.
4. News
   1. here, I would have a twitter widget connected to a twitter account specificially for this website, where there would be relevant rt information and posts about new releases, tour announcements, any type of news.
   2. For content, it would be blog posts about what’s going on (music videos, albums, new innovations,etc.)
5. Contact.
   1. social media, email addresses etc.

Honestly, I love Alt Press‘s website layout and colors. The content would be similar and I love how they tie everything together. So, with all that being said, it seems like a lot to put on my plate, but I think it’ll be okay. Looking forward to it.

My favorite, and most used, website would probably be twitter. I find it extremely easy to navigate. The design is simplistic and very user-friendly. You only have a few elements of your home time line which include your text box and others’ tweets to which you’re able to “like” or “retweet” tweets you enjoy.

In terms of “not making the user think”, I believe due to the simplicity of the website, you don’t have to think often unless you’re making changes to your settings. However, in this case the website is still designed so well you don’t do much thinking.

As for grabbing the users’ attention, I do think that twitter takes hold. I follow a ton of news, media, and artists on twitter and in order to keep up with what’s going on in the world as well as my interests, I find myself checking twitter a countless number of times per day. I think though, it depends on the individual’s choice on who they follow, whether twitter will keep their interest. As for my mom, she didn’t last long on twitter.

Looking over the list of the “10 Principles”, I think twitter is effective as a website covers them all. However, links presented by individual accounts that link to other websites cannot affect the way twitter is as its own website.

All in all, I believe twitter itself is designed so well. It’s very simplistic and easy to use. It’s also a way for others to connect to friends as well as news involving their interests.