Research into conventions

Researching Conventions:
　
Conventions are ways of doing things, having a navigation bar on the left side of a website is a common convention, for a newspaper a common convention would be having the logo at the top and the slogan just below it. Conventions are useful as the audience become familiar with layouts and will therefore find it easier to navigate around websites etc.

Conventions do not have to be used all the time, sometimes websites can break conventions to appeal to different audiences and stand out from other websites or newspapers. Below is an example of a school website that breaks conventions but that doesnt make it look good.

The usual conventions in web design are the navigation bar on the left with the logo at the top of the website, sometimes pictures are used in the background or to the right of the logo showing children at school.

The website above has the logo at the top with a navigation bar on the left and a picture in the middle.

This website breaks conventions as it has no clear navigation bar and doesnt have much information, but this website is very eye-catching and shows different objects with a book in the middle which had the links that will take you around the website.

As media practical, Preliminary Task

This is my analysis about Robert Pattinson School

Below is my analysis of 'The college'


Below is my analysis of Oxford School

Below is my analysis of Lsst school

Below is my analysis of Ling Moor

Primary school

I have looked at 5 different school websites and i realise that they all have fairly similar conventions such as a picture of the school in the background of children looking happy to be at school or simply the school looking environmentally friendly. I also noticed that all five of the websites i have looked at have navigation bars on the left hand side and they do this as this is a layout that is used in most websites so viewers will be familiar with the positioning of the navigation bar. All the websites have different colour schemes which tend to be the colours of the logo.

For my website I will use an easy to use navigation bar on the left side that, i will use two main colours and have a picture to illustarate how environmentally friendly the school is.