One month on from writing my DA ‘Ideating’ post and wow how things have changed and progressed! Where do I even begin? Our DA project is now officially up and running and we have gained increasing views and supporters. Within the space of a week or two, our Instagram page gained over 25 followers and we are currently on 81 followers. In an attempt to spread the word on our project we followed girls on Instagram who were following similar accounts to ours e.g. health pages, fitness accounts and so on. Moreover, we also followed friends and uni students. This was the way to go as it increased our fan base. In addition to this, we promoted our project through daily twitter updates and tracking our progress digitally as well as on paper.
Since promoting our project, we have received supportive and constructive feedback. As expected, our feedback has mainly been from females studying at university. We have also received advice and tips on how we can further our project and gain more attention e.g. seeking boys’ opinions and advice on our chosen topics. All of our feedback has been beneficial in closely defining our target age group and helping us to improve upon our project. A key step in our DA process was paper prototyping where we engaged with readings as well as conducting further research.
Whilst doing so we drew up sketches of how we would ideally like the website to look like when first opened. We also sketched some design for other layouts such as article menus and logos.
As expected, we did come across a couple of obstacles, our main one being navigating wix.com. This was our chosen website creator as it was free and appealing. However, it proved to be a bit tedious. We did at one point consider converting over to WordPress however after watching YouTube tutorials we stuck with Wix.
At this point, Alex and I are quite happy with our DA’s progress and are excited to see where it takes us!
xx
Leonard K 