25th October 2009 Weekly Post

Today the 25^th October is the weekly progress that has been made on the web site development based on tourism in Scotland.

Beginning at the start of the week by reviewing the previous weeks work to get a better picture of how the website will look and placing the pieces together for the submission of a PowerPoint presentation of the general structure and look that hopefully won’t change too much over the following weeks.

The web site will have a blue background to it due to the colours link to Scotland throughout the web site with white text. I will base the site on a strict hierarchy structure from the main page for accessing the various themes covered in the web site. These are in alphabetical order and are as follows. 1. Castles. 2. Cities. 3. Lochs and 4. Museums. Each web page on a particular subject will have a picture icon and name which can be clicked to get more detailed information on the attraction. This will include details on the attraction and travelling details on how to visit it. Going back to the main page of the web site it will also include a search option at the top right and have contact details at the bottom middle of the page.

With the above information a PowerPoint presentation was constructed to which give a better ideal of how the web site will look and also to hand in as part of the assessment in the construction of the web site. The details that I included are who the website for and the groups it’s aimed at with their characteristics detail of the main home page, sub pages with links and general layout of the web site. On the main page will be a logo of a small Scottish flag and the main themes will have images to go with the text and link information on them. Finally due credit is given in a bibliography of websites reference for ideas on the conduction and layout of the web site. These sites mostly involve the design tourism sites and what they offer to the public, but sites like the BBC and eBay are referenced because they where used in how sites are constructed for established businesses and looking at the design they use for their web sites.

Start of Web Design

This is the start of the development of a web site based on tourism in Scotland, which is part of BSc in Computing Networking at Cumbernauld College.