Over the past couple of months Alex and I have been working hard on our DA project, and it is safe to say we are very happy with our progress! Progressing on from the ideating stage in our project, we began to discuss our vision for how both our website and Instagram would look in order to attract our intended audience. We wrote down all of our ideas for what we wanted and brought it all together onto paper. This was achieved through the help of YouTube videos such as ‘Rapid Prototyping 1 of 3: Sketching & Paper Prototyping‘. Paper prototyping our website was quite timely as we had various pages and menus to design. We drew up several designs for our logo ‘La Vie Etc.’ and once we decided on the design, we both liked, we created it using an online logo maker.
As expected, bringing our website to life was not as easy as we had hoped. Using wix.com brought about several challenges as it was tricky to navigate the website in order to achieve our desired aesthetic. At one point we did decide to try out other website makers but ended up going back to Wix as the majority of them came at a cost.
Alex and I have spent quite a bit of time thinking of ways which will engage our viewers and also attract new users. In order to do this, we sent out a suggestion poll on our Instagram page to see what our viewers would be interested in reading.
This was definitely a great idea as we received quite a few responses, all with similar responses. This helped us with new and exciting article topics which branch out from our three topics of Personal Life, University and Etc. We’ve included articles such as ‘Quick, Easy & (Semi) Healthy Recipes’, `10 Great Horror/Thriller Movies’ and ‘4 Steps to an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle’. Since promoting our articles on both Instagram and Twitter we have received quite a few views, our first article ‘Find the Perfect Date for You’ gained 40 views within a couple hours after promoting the article!
Alex and I are very happy with the progress we have made so far and are keen to see where this takes us!!
Leonard K 