The creation of the website

In order to create the website, we used a programme called iWeb on a Mac computer. The whole process of making the website took a long time, but we are happy with the end result. The rest of my group had previous experience on this programme when they went to the CLC, however as I was unable to go i was not as experienced as them. However, i managed to teach myself how to use this through much determination and dedication.

As a group, we sat together and planned what we wanted on each page, using what we had found to have been successful from our research on current soap websites.

Natalie Michael and Thegla Savvides began with the basic outline of the website with inputs from the other group members.

I then added most of the things we had put onto our plan to the website. I did this is in a basic way which later we could edit to how we wanted. I filled up most of the pages, taking photos of other people available who could pose as being extras in our soap. These people's pictures were featured on our character's page but they did not have have their own character biography pages. Only our characters have biography pages.

Once this was mainly done, me and Elena stayed behind after school and went through the basic I had done. We changed fonts and colours making the website clearer and more attractive to our target audience. We changed the white font to red on the character profile pages making it much clearer and eye-catching for the audience to read. The fonts were changed throughout most of the pages as through feedback from peers, we found that the original one wasn't as good as the new one. We also hyperlinked the pages together making pictures and text link to the appropriate pages.

On the page for 'Andrea's Diary', we added stars to the corner of the pages as we thought that the page looked a little bare. This made the page seem more fun and girly and should make the viewer feel comfortable visiting the page. We were unable to change the colour of this stars from white. After some more exploration, Thegla realised that this was indeed possible and we changed them to a calming pink and yellow colour. This fitted with the feel of a diary page. we added shadows to the text boxes, images and text as without the shadow, these aspects looked flat on the page.

After we had filmed the focus group and edited this, we added it to our website onto the interview page. we also added some footage of this onto the out-takes page.

Our website plans.

The mac computer with iweb and the creation of our website.