Mission Statement

Our idea is to produce an online magazine in the style of Heat magazine (gossipy, trashy, chatty) but instead of using celebrities, we are using students from around the Farnham campus of UCA. We want to keep the main student gossipy theme throughout all the content of the website.

Features:

Stop and shoots -> Fashion

Torso of the week -> Boys

Bum of the week -> Girls

Ask Motha FUCA-> aunt

What’s on -> in the next month

FUCA news -> Gossip, capuse events etc.

Gallery -> pictures

FUCA forum -> Interactive chat

FUCAzine

Over the past week, Team Boob have been working hard to build the infamous FUCAzine website. Focusing on a younger audience (18-24) , we used the skins website as a basis for layout and color ideas.

The images, colors and fonts we chose to use all related to the theme of our website (image above).
The main content involves a forum for our students, a Gallery filled with gloriously vile drunk photos from union nights and 'Torso of the week' (winner). We also have the FUCA news which will have general news from the Farnham Campus.
'Ask Mutha FUCA' will be our online problem page for students. We plan to put posters up around the University to tell students the email address to send their problems to.

Web optimization is actually pretty handy...

Web trends and analysis was demonstrated by Steve using Google analytics, to show us how to view web trends on the net. It is useful to understand how may hits one page on a site had in a month, and how long for, all depending on the different 'keywords' used to search one site.

Web optimization is used by the amount of repetitiveness on one page of a specific keyword, or a number of keywords. This is important when choosing a name for our site, and what content to have on the homepage as we want our site to be as high up as possible when searched on google.
To test this and to explore how many appropriate and useful options we had, 'Google keywords' gives us the opportunity to see how many hits a specific keyword has, relating to our website.

The highest used keywords, relating to our website were:

• Student magazine
• Farnham UCA gallery
• Farnham nightlife
• student union
• students union
• student union pictures
• University students union
• student chat rooms
• student chat
• student discounts
• cheap food
• naked students
• drunk girls

This means that all these keywords link to the theme of our website, and have been searched in Google alot on a monthly average. By using one or more of these on the basis of web optimization, (repetition) it will in theory direct the viewer to our website, therefore increasing our google ranking.

Second Semester...

Group website.

In a group of five of us, known as 'Team Boob' our idea for a group website is to make a online 'Heat' magazine aimed at students from UCA. It will be specifically for students about students. We want it to by quite tacky and funny, gossipy and generally fun to read and also to produce.

Our initial ideas to include in the website are:

• Student profiles
• Reviews of student nights at the union
• Video/audio footage- 'open mic night
• Forum for students discussion and opinion
• 'Torso of the week' 'bum of the week' (heat magazine/nuts type of tacky naked stuff)
• lecturer profiles
• Gossipy stuff
• Fashion articles
• Topical features (Valentines day etc.)
• General features (health, beauty, interviews etc.)
• Problem page

Naming our website 'FUCAZINE' came from playing around with the Universities name (UCA) and embedding it into the theme of our site; it is a catchy title and relates to our audience.

Personal website

For the unit assessment, we have to individually create a 'personal' website using the skills we have learnt through Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

The assessment criteria states:

• Using online multimedia
• Contemporary practices and technologies used by online journalists
• Appropriate online research resources from the web
• Use of dreamweaver and other appropriate web design/publishing software.

Today we designed the layout of our pages, and Steve taught us a simple way of breaking up the pages into 3 tiers, this diagram explains:

The basis of my website is an online portfolio, to showcase my work for future reference.
Tier one, tier two and tier three act like three different platforms in the outline of a website, this breaks up content to title and title to homepage.