Week 7 (Rationale for Production Project A)
Site - http://egriff.wordpress.com/
The target market intended for this site were really those who are being affected by the Australian drought or those who simply take an interest or want to know more. These people are able to view current water restrictions, maps of rainfall intake over Australia, general information and also photos of the drought.
Problems that occurred whilst making this site mainly lie in the uploading of photos onto the front page. Attaching the photo from another site made it more difficult to display and post. Another problem was with font style and size. Adding entries from different computers made it difficult as all font size and style was different, although a quick fix on one steady computer resolved that minor problem.
I chose wordpress.com to publish my information online as it was easily accessible and the layout style with blog posts and pages quite suitable. It handled information well and did not look overcrowded on the page.
The ABC-Drought Coverage site would be good for gathering information about Australia’s drought as it is a reliable source although the layout on the site is structured in a most confusing way making it difficult for the reader to pin-point exact information. There is an overload of links down the left hand side of the page which could have been put together and displayed in a more resourceful/easier way. Seeing this site, I realised I did not want columns of links down the sides and so have put tabs up the top linking off to other pages to avoid confusion for those viewing.
