Initial Team Leader Meeting

The first team leader meeting was today and I am impressed with how dedicated each leader is. Each leader had their own agenda. For me it was to discuss the initial designs of the website and gain feedback as to what the two leaders would need.

Sav stated that the website would need:

- Email Accounts (seperate ones for mailshots and team leader accounts)
- Sponsors Page
- Events Page (both Exhibition and fund raisers

Craig bought his groups initial logo design to the table, slight alterations would be needed for the background colour, but after stating some of my ideas we are all happy that each group is moving in the right direction.

The layout that I proposed is farerly basic:

- navigation bar on the left
- Clear title
- Clear Logo
- Main Information Display
- Advertising banners
- Sponsorship banner


The initial feedback was good, in terms of displaying the work both Sav and Craig liked the concepts. The one thing Sav wasn't sure on was the title sponsor banner on the right of the screen. In practice it was good, but in reality he doesn't see it working. Due to the scale of the exhibition, plus the unknowns surrounding any sponsorship he doesn't feel it right to have such a banner. This was not a problem that I had anticipated so it was welcome feedback, so this particular banner will have to be thought through again.

The 2nd stage of my presentation concsisted of how the website would link to the theme of "The Design Studio". My idea is to setout the website as if it were a designers desk. A bit messy but containing objects that would be relevant to the theme.

The first plan was to setup the navigation system, going by Ryans presentation last week he showed of replicating a piece of paper that was stuck down with masking tape.

This was a succesful idea, both team leaders agreeing that it replicated the theme well.

The 2nd idea was purely to solve a space issue on the website. The logo would overlap the information display area of the site, my idea was to place the logo upon a curled up post-it note, that would easily be seen by the viewer; allow the text below the logo to be read easily and at the same time kept the link with the theme. This was another idea that went down succesfully.