Feedback from Artefact 5

This is the main feedback I have used to create artefact 6

I like it. I also agree with sam on the social media approach too.
Some possible developments I would suggest...

Add easy, medium and hard levels to each portrait/image
easy - image is transparent
medium - select parts of image is transparent, the rest blank
hard - blank background only

Maybe a larger iPad version would work better for kids too. Could be attached to the wall for passing kids to play on as art galleries are usually boring for kids.

Win medals rather than extra pens/brushes. Giving them more tools would be a natural development of the game anyway. Start with a pencil only then develop to full colour set of pens, etc. The rewards should be medals for completing each artwork. Gold for 1 - 10 seconds, silver for 11 - 20 seconds, bronze for 21 - 30 seconds finally 30+ seconds 'FAIL!' These times would obviously depend on how complex the artwork was to start with.

With using these medals you would still be able to include the leaderboard. 'John got a Gold medal for completing Fisher Boy in 4.5 seconds. Do you think you could beat his time?' Also you could after collecting x amount of gold medals give them 'youve won a £5 voucher to use at our gallery gift shop'

Overall I think its a brilliant idea that if produced well could spark more than just the 8 - 13 year olds playing on it. Yes, this means that I would be trying to beat Johns time of 4.5 seconds to gain myself enough starts to get a £5 voucher

f you wanted to take this further and put it out there as a proper artistic-kids product I would suggest running two Apps simultaneously, an iPhone App which forces kids to look at the images, but instead of draw what they see, they could answer questions about things like what colours were used, what type of paint, what was in the picture, how old do they think it is etc. And then you could have an iPad/tablet App, which could be downloadable, or just used within the gallery itself for kids to act out the original idea.

The Footer

Although this section isn't seen as the most important part of any website it is a detail that I think can make or break a website. It is a standard area of a website that people expect to be there and hold additional details. In the case of charities they are usually social widgets or some type, charity details, address and contact details.

My original problem with the footer is that it doesn't seem to go with the design of the rest of the page. It seems separated by the line created by the div box. The client wants the footer to include the charity details-contact, legal details (charity number etc). Also through talking to ibrow media, the website designer has recommended that putting a second navigation in the footer is good practice as it means people don't have to scroll to find where they are therefore making it easily to navigate.

When you wish upon a star have requested that their Twitter account and Facebook account be added to the footer to make the charity have a stronger online presence. This will give the target audience more options to keep updated with what the charity does.

Original Mock-up=small footer can't fit all of the charity information in.

Footer 2= bigger to fit in all of the information in, green to integrate it into the colour scheme of the rest of the website. Facebook icon needs the CSS altering to move it into the middle.

Final Footer

I have used the hand drawn line from the hills illustration to integrate the footer with the main website. Centralized the widgets to give the footer some symmetry. Changed the colour of the footer from green to a mid blue to give the website some balance with the colour scheme and so it goes with the sky and charity colours. Overall I am very happy with the footer design I think that it brings the website together. It makes a simple block of information interesting to look for a wide range of people.

To create a footer with an uneven line presented me with a few problems so I had to create an extra div to provide me with the space to add padding so that the green line would overlap the faded white background instead of being covered by it.

Within Modx I created a div id called widgets and set the width and height to 50 along with setting the image to source to the hand drawn facebook logo. I made sure the border was 0 aswell.

Arts and Organisation website

Some of Saira Macleod's photography.

My second brief entails designing and coding a 5page website, validated against WC3 standards with at least 3 interactive flash pages, widgets and banners of various sizes. I will need to include-

• Diary/journal page in CSS/XHTML that will draw on a MYSQL database using php.
• Server side scripting and database
• CSS and XHTML will work as the frame work for interactivity
• I need to consider the data that my application needs to store, key operations that the application must perform
• The client must be able to update their journal
• Display their art form
• And finally the site should be a tool for gaining further fans, customers and visitors.

I have chosen Saira Macleod, a documentary (2ND year photographer at Nottingham Trent) to be the client for my website. She currently networks both in person and digitally but wants to take digital networking to the next level with a website that focuses purely on her photography with a minimalist edge to the overall design. She uses facebook, twitter and blogger to network and track her photographic journey. See http://sairamacleod.blogspot.com/

At the moment we are discussing design plans, aims for the site, accessiblity and interactity for her site so I will keep you all updated of it's progress.