Writing in/of/through the ether

littlejohn class work 03/30

AUDIENCE: specific people were designing for
CONTEXT: overall community and area demographics and beliefs
PURPOSE: be able to explain why everything that’s there is there, color choices, page and paragraph separation, etc…

Our audience… service school age children through adults and the elderly, people looking at the site are going to be parents looking for their children, some children looking up programs or at the pictures or calendar, also some elderly people looking for programs. The site is mostly geared to people not necessarily Internet savvy. To address this we are keeping things simple and consistent. We also are going to add a note at the bottom of the main page which browser our site is best viewed in. We also provide links to download software needed to view the site and corresponding forms.

Our context… Littlejohn Community Center is operated by itself with little affiliation to other community centers. Southern aspects worth noting are religious affiliation (mostly Baptist – idea thought of at a church meeting) Traditionally; Littlejohn Community Center has been a place for low to middle income African American families. Put something on the site to prove we made this site. We are in the context of a college environment and a college town.

Our purpose… The color choices are obvious (appealing to children but not too bright, we have enough but not too many colors). Our word choice and sentence format are simple and not too wordy. We are trying to get people to use the site often and perhaps save them from calling the center where they could be put on hold.

posted by Meghan Joyce @ 12:08 PM