Individual Report : Multimedia Production

Web Site for Multimedia Training Centre London

Multimedia training centre london is a place for people who are intersted in multimedia to turn themselves to professional in multimedia. The public espacially students can register themselve and learn or training on multimedia like graphic design, video editing, photo shooting, motion graphic compositing, mobile media and others.

Website is one of the main platform to promote and provide information about the training centre. A professional training centre is going to have a proper but not fancy website to show their information and message to public clearly and easy navigate. Besides that, this website should be attractive in design to attract more users to brownse and get more information.

There are so many website in this world but i am attracted and get some inspiratation from a design academy website – The One Academy, it is a award winning education website in the country. This website is designed in a series of similarly shapes elements along the same baseline and it shows unity in website. All the elements looks like they belong together.

White and Orange color is thier academy color and so they are using the same color as the color scheme for this website to emphesis more on thier identity. All parts in the websites had arrange clearly with diffrent background color for each section and it is easy for user to define different sections.With the colors, it create interesting contrast between the main content and background. Besides the color, this website do insert some related image and giving the mood or personality of the academy to create the feel in a learning or training centre on the website. Some graphic there do creating a unique and antique feeling of the design academy.

Although this website have many interesting content and nice picture, it also have enough space to give user’s eye a visual rest. Having space, it make the layout easy to follow and read by the users. Besides that, this websites also emphasis some sections with diffrent size in some element. This web site showing which element is most important by making the title or words bigger. It give the user sense of scale and bring the effects on the elements to come forward to them. This may help to focus users’ attention.

This website also completed with all the information of this academy. Besides the texts about the academy, there is also a gallery for users to view students products in the website. So users can know more and understand the learning level of this academy. It is a effective web context and of course i do get my inspiration and learned from this great websites for my projects.
After i analys and design my website, i decide to use both flash and html as my medium for this project. My heading and navigation bar will be do it in flash file while the content will all be in html. I and my group mate trying to get information about a training centre and complete the website. For me, it is a simple, attractive and easy navigate website. It is a place for public to get information about multimedia training centre London and next they going to learn or train thier multimedia skills in this centre.

Besides analys and do my reseach, i found this phrase when i doing my research online ,
“[Design] has never cohered into a unified profession, such as law, medicine, or architecture… Instead, design has splintered into ever-greater subdivisions of practice without any overarching concept of organization…”—John Heskett in Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life ”
Well, i am agree with the statement above, design is always flexible and unlimited. We can design anything we want with creative way and innovative thinking, but so how, on my opinion, a professional training centre do still need to have a proper format of a website. One of the reasons of doing a proper format but not fancy website for this centre is to consider public from diffrent ages. Some older generation might be hard to naviagate some fancy website, and they still need the very simple and easy naviagate website.


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