Today we were designing the topic page. It seemed easy but was far from it. As a group we had not sat down and spoken about how we wanted the page to look like. We knew what we wanted on it but the design was the last thing on our minds.
It took us about 30minutes to map out what we wanted the topic page to look like...I personally was not satisfied but time was not our friend. I sat with the web designer and started saying what it is we wanted. Design is not easy.
It is so easy to pen things down on paper and envision this master piece but when it comes down to technology, many things have to be taken in to consideration; the colour scheme of the actual website, the fact that you can't re size YouTube video's, the size of you pictures, text and so forth.
I had to cut some stories out of the topic pages and I am sure some of my group members are not going to be happy but they will understand. The layout of our topic page is done but I think it is so basic. I really wish we could do more with it but in a day we can only do so much.
Today I learnt to appreciate the work that goes behind designing a news website, it is not easy. You have to consider your strongest story and you should not have too much multimedia...it does not look good.
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Ah, it looks like the story is long over, though I just discovered it now (thanks to having written about Pinky-Pinky). I lived near the Jukskei in my youth, and knew some parts of it quite well.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a children's novel in which a few scenes were set beside the Jukskei A children’s novel about apartheid | Khanya, though most of the action takes place elsewhere, in KZN and Limpopo.