Thursday, 23 February 2012

Website/Social Networking

Something I really wanted to sort out was creating an online presence for the magazine. I began with the basic social networking profiles, creating a profile on Twitter and a page on Facebook. These worked fairly well and generated some interest with likes coming in on Facebook and people sharing the tweets from the Twitter. After a while however, we found the interest slumping so Simon R suggested another tactic. We then changed from a 'page' on Facebook to a profile and began adding people. This seemed to work a lot better since a lot of people tend to accept friend requests from random companies based in their city. I know I do it personally, just to keep updated.

Below are screenshots of all online profiles (with click through links):




These are all fairly successful ways in which to generate online interest and keep people up to date with what's going on with the magazine, quickly and easily. However, we all agreed that to feel a lot more established as a business and as a brand, a website would be a good way to go.

Simon Howe offered to help create a website for the magazine, due to his interest in web design. Currently, the layout and website is very simple, but with hopes to expand in the future as opportunities allow so and myself and Simon H become more confident in our abilities to create and code a website.

Below are screen shots of the website, and various stages of its development:

This was the simple page created when the domain had been bought, but no website layout has been coded.

This was an initial layout created.

A small excerpt of coding.

The final website, found here.


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