Website Construction

• To make my website, I first chose a template from http://www.webassist.com/dreamweaver-templates.
• When I was happy that my choice would support the conventions that I wanted to include and would appeal to my target audience, I downloaded it. I chose to use a template instead of starting a website from scratch because I have no previous experience with creating websites so I felt I needed a starting point. 
• I then had to make sure to put it in a separate folder on the computer so that when I went on to Dreamweaver and went on the files section to open it, I could do it with ease and not have to go searching through the computer to find it. 
• When I had successfully opened the first page (I started with the homepage), I proceeded to change conventions on it to conventions that I liked and that I was sure my target audience would like. For example, I swapped images that came with the template with images that I took and that suited the content that went with the image. In order to make the image I wanted to use web-friendly, I put it into photoshop and then saved it as a JPEG on a medium resolution, instead of a high resolution so that it would successfully open and load on my site. I also changed the text from the template text, to the text that I wanted the website to say.
• I then chose to edit the HTML coding slightly in order to change visual elements such as colours and layout on the page. For example, I wanted to change the colours on the website to match the colours that I used in my magazine and billboard to create a brand image and a sense of familiarity for the reader.
• I followed these general steps until my homepage was complete as the only things I really needed to change was the colours, images, text and the layout slightly. I then followed these same steps to create my 2 linked pages which occurred successfully.