LO4: Site Structure Diagram

Conventions of a Website

• URL - website address
• Navigation bar - at the top of every website that allows you to browse content on the website
• Logos - so that it establishes the brand
• House style colours
• Name 
• Images or graphics
• Web banner - form of advertising (website owners get pay money to advertise as a form of revenue stream - appeal to your target audience)
• Legal disclaimers

Site Structure Diagram <-- might be asked to draw this in the exam or asked to evantuate (20 marker) 

A diagram that represents the navigation for the "end-user" when using an interactive product.  

Navigation - how you move / access different pages of an interactive product. Home page is the first thing that you see when you access a website and sub pages are the different pages that you can go to. e.g. Facebook's home page is the newsfeed but then the sub screens are things such as notifictaions, profile page, messenger, groups / events, friend requests. All the pages are linked together. 

End-user - Whoever is using the content once the content has been published. Target audience. Who the product has been designed for. 

Interactive (media) product - User or gamer physically operates and uses the product User physically affects the product and is normally something that you can touch like social media. Interactive media products force the end-user to engage with the product. Apps, websites, video games are all examples of interactive products. Websites are interactive due to the end-user have to navigate through different pages to find what YOU are looking for. You can write and add content to interactive products through chat features. Buttons allow you to go to different places, these are interactive. When buttons change colour or go in are called a hyperlink button which allows you to access all the different pages. Images are interactive as they grab your attention and allow you to be engages in the website or app. Videos are also interactive along with adverts. Everything you see in an interactive media product is an interactive feature as it keeps you attention.