You are a member of a design team at BlueFish Media Design

B l u e F i s h M e d i a D e s i g n W e b Q u e s t I n t r o d u c t i o n :

You are a member of a design team at BlueFish Media Design, a premier web design and multimedia design firm in the New York area. Recently, several local firms have approached BlueFish with requests for web sites.

? Coffee Cafe — a locally owned coffee bar similar to Starbucks located in the Chicago Bucktown neighborhood

Analysis to do some investigation and background analysis.

1. Determine the top three expectations your client has for the website.

2. Determine the target audience.

3. Locate three potential competitors (or similar websites).

4. Use the Web Design Best Practices Checklist to analyze the competition. For each competitor, note two strengths and two weaknesses.

5. The Analysis Report. Submit a two-page written description of your results for the four analysis steps above.

Design

design a sample page layout and create a presentation to propose to the client.

1. Choose color scheme. Justify your selection.

2. Choose page layout type: jello, liquid, or ice. Justify your selection.

3. Choose font face, weight, and size for headings, subheadings, main content, footer, etc. Justify your selection.

4. The Sample Page Layout. Use any of the following applications to create a Sample Page Layout: Adobe Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or Adobe Photoshop.

. 5. The Presentation. Present your design with flair! Use either Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint to enthusiastically share your design ideas with your client (the Presentation). Include information about the target audience and client expectations from your Analysis Report. Include your proposals for color scheme, page format type, and fonts you selected. Include the URL of your sample page layout file.