E-mail sent to Bert Wallis

We sent an e-mail to Bert Wallis asking for more information on the company and more ideas about creating the website. This was sent from my email adress to his e-mail adress: deanrutherford25@yahoo.com >> berwallis@palmers.ac.uk

Here is what was sent to Bert Wallis.

"Dear Mr Wallis,
Regarding the interview previously this week, I would like to ask if it would be possible to gain some further information. This is basically regarding what design features would you like on the website and could you please further explain the format and layout af your company and how they operate. Thankyou for your time.
Kind Regards
Dean Rutherford"

This e-mail to Bert Wallis was very appropriate because the group needed to find out extra information about how he wanted the website to look. This was essential because we needed to find out absoloutley everything that was needed to we could make a full and extensive plan of what we needed to do. This information we acquired proved useful becasue the end product actually looked like, what the client had asked for.

Interview with Bert Wallis

This interview consisted of interviewing Bert Wallis to gain ideas for the making of the website. We asked relevant questions that would enable us to gather the right information to create the website such as "Do you want the company logo to link back to the home page?"
Other question included "what colour schemes would you like to use?" and "would you like videos on the website?"
These types of questions were relevant becasue they helped the group to draw up a plan of tasks of what we were going to design. These questions also helped us produce our own individual gantt charts which would in effect, help us design the web pages we were allocated and it would give it more structure.
The responses from the interview were typed up by the minutes secetary - IG.

We contructed the questioned that we were going to ask Bert Wallis prior to the interview. We did this by brainstorming the appropriate questions we should ask Bert. We needed to find out the main things that a client would want like font style, headings, navigation and so forth. We constructed roughly about 20 questions that would cover all of the aspects of the website design.

1st Meeting

Our first meeting that the group had outlined the websites that we researched. For example, I researched John Buck and Eagle Gallery Artist. Victoria researched artists in Devon and Cornwall and Amy researched Kate Denton and Deirdre Hubbard. We then outlined the good and bad points from each website that we researched individually and recorded these in the minutes of the meeting. Good points were things like "nice home page" and "good links or navigation". Bad points included things like "too much colour" and "Buttons were awkward". We then said from the evaluation of the websites, what would we include in our website that we are making. These include things like "same font colour and font size"

We found that the majority of the websites we had researched all have a clear and constructive navigation menus for the website. The group decided that this would be necessary for the website we were going to create. We also found that some of the websites we reasearched had videos and slideshows on them for the sampling of the artists work. We decided to use this on our website because we thought it would be a good idea and it would make it look professional. Lastly, we found that most websites include a short biography about the artist. We felt that we could use this in our wesbite to make this the main content of the web pages. This would be a good idea because we wanted to make sure the user understood fully about the artist and thier work and who influenced them.

A.O.B = (Any other business) - there was no any other business to report.

IG was absent for this meeting.