Research And Analysis Websites

I have been looking into some websites of tv channels that interest me and i have print screened to show evidence of my research into different layouts and designs.

Channel E4: www.e4.com

This is a website for the channel E4. This channel mainly shows teenage drama series and are based for the teenage audience. For example 'The Inbetweeners'. The website also has available links for you to click on the programmes to view the series. This website to me I think is very suitable for a teenage audience because it is attractive and gives you what you want. I really like this homepage because of the background, the background is an image which they also use for the advertisment on their tv channel. The background is very stylish and well presentated. The colour scheme for E4 is purple and white which they use also in their logo branding. These two colours work well together because the white is a neutral colour like a normal page and the purple is very bold. They have clearly advertised their logo of a number 4 on their website because they want people to reconise the logo.

They have cleverly inserted it onto the background image of what looks to be an empty warehouse. They have used different types of font, small, medium and large style fonts also using bold lettering for the key words such as page headings. This is something I will take into consideration when building my website. The layout of this website is clear and simple which means it is easy to navigate.

Also they have added a search bar at the top of the page so if you cannot find what you are looking you simply type it in the search bar. I will properly add this in when i make my website because it a really handy tool to have and a easy way of navigating.

One of the pages you can click on on this site also is called Do it & win. You can click on games to win prizes so this can sometimes involve the designer adding in 'FLASH'. The games can link up to another website so that you can play the game. I may add a competition page onto my website but the links may not be real due to the fact I am only using one channel and most competition links send you to another page. For example poker pages.

This a slideshow of many of the shows shown on the channel E4. You can click on this to view the shows on the website. I will not be able to use this on my website because I will only be using one channel but I do think this is really good for the audience it is aimed at which is mainly the teenage audience.


BBC: www.bbc.co.uk

This is the website for the BBC. I took a picture of this website because there are many different links a number of different pages to view. The picture on the left <- shows a clear view of all the news at present. They are all under separate titles such as Sport, Weather etc so that the audience can simply click on the heading to view the news and updates in that section. This website is aimed more for a adult audience so simple colours are used and everything is a lot bolder. Over all I think the website is a lot more complex technically due to the amount of hyperlinks and links to different pages but it is a lot easier to navigate thanks to the headings above each section. I don't really like the layout of this website because there looks to be to much going on and it looks cluttered, I prefer the headings of the pages to be at the top of the page so that it is easier to navigate and you will have more spage on the page to put things like images or videos. This website is one of the largest I know. There are links to hundreds of different pages because the news covers the whole of Britian. This page is one of the quickest updates sites also, they update it was soon as something happens in the world for example breakin news. This website also uses other major websites for their audiences attention such as Youtube. There are videos on the page that link up to the youtube site.

This is one of the pages you can click on, on the homepage of the BBC website. This link sends you to the sports page showing you the latest updates of sport. This is a good thing to pt on a website but I will properly not be able to do this because i will not be updating my website all the time. If I was to go into making websites in the future I would possibly look into doing latest updates.


MTV: www.mtv.co.uk

This is the website for MTV msic channel. This is the page under music. The genre for this website looks to me to be aimed at a teenage audience with the bright colours to attract you in. I took this screen shot because I am interested in music and here you can click on a multilink to download the current top 40. Many of the past pupils used this idea so I may take this into consideration for my website coursework. There is also a number of images used on this page because it makes the page more attractive to look at. If a teenage music site was simply lots of text the audience would not want to read it so they use photos of celebrities and people we can relate to, to attract us in.

This is how most pages set out their websites. They tend to have the titles and headings of pages at the top so it is the first thing you see. Some of the links on this page are Channel, Music, News, Shows, Video, Movies. This is one thing I know for definite I will be doing on my website because I think it is the easiest way for the audience to navigate the website.

This is one page that I will be adding to my website when I make it for coursework. I will not be allowed to use any images for the internet so I will take my own photos and upload them to the website. To allow people to view this page I will have a heading on my navigation bar as Gallery or Photos. I will set mine out similar to this example from the MTV website. I think the layout of the page is very attractive and suitable for the audience it is aimed at. The website has used many different pictures of celebrities and they have used different sizes for different stories. I will take this into consideration when making my page. I will use larger pictures for more important or up to date events. I will also use similar photos to this website but using my own. I will post pictures of events that have recently taken place so that the audience can see how the event went.

This is one way that I could possibly set out my images for my gallery page. It is very neatly laid out and easy to click on the page. Another thing I have noticed is the thumbnails for all of these pictures attracted you in because of what they are showing. I will try and get the same effect with my pictures and hopefully they will attract the audience in.