Platypotamus

In class, we went over your five plans for a children's website, ultimately deciding on one of them as the winner. Take this plan, and create a fully realized design out of it.

Again, you are working in Photoshop or Illustrator here, not building a functional site.

You are on the hook for a variety of things here:

• The home page
  • Biggest concern of the home page is to make it appealing to new users as well as returning users
  • Remember the title of the text book, even if you haven't read any of it yet.
  • Make sure I know where to go as a new user!
• Navigation
  • Navigation isn't just the most important part of the site... it is the site
  • If your navigation (or any other aspect of the assignment) feature dynamic interactivity (such as roll overs), use layers to show them off.
• One page of actual content
  • Whatever site you've chosen features something interesting
  • Do a design of this "something interesting" as well
  • Show the site laid out for this content
  • Show how the navigation updates with whatever "you are here" method you use.
• General guidelines
  • Yes, I expect you to actually create some of the content for this content page. It is very helpful in visually showing off your site.
  • You should be creating your own images here
  • This IS an interface design class, and as such, the interface/navigation aspects of your design should get the most attention.

First, here is the collection of links that we discussed in class, in case you need to refresh your memory:

http://neopets.com/

http://vmk.disney.go.com/vmk/en_US/index?name=VMKHomePage

http://pbskids.org/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/

http://www.kidzworld.com

http://kids.yahoo.com/

Next, you should read up through chapter 5 in the book by next week.

Finally, the details of the first part of the assignment are behind the cut below.

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