Website Development

Year 8
Lesson Objectives

o Develop skills in using Photoshop

o Understand the importance of purpose and audience
when creating web products
Starter
In pairs look at the logos and websites below. Who are their target audience and
why do you think this?
Scenario

Mr Ford the Principal at Wyedean School has asked you to create a section for the
Wyedean website about our school dog, Moss. You are going to produce a banner and
a 3 page website to show off your skills and promote our dog.

All the content will need to be in a format suitable for displaying on the web. It will
have a main page with other pages linked to it.

Your 3 pages will be:

- Home
- Gallery
- Benefits of a school dog
Example Website
Folders

 Create a folder in your Year 8 Computing

folder called Website Design.
Task 1: Setting up the page
 Open Photoshop and set up the page to the size 950px by
130px for the top banner. Don’t forget this will appear on
every page so make it good.
Task 1: Setting up the page
 Open Photoshop and set up the page to the size 950px by 50
px for the footer banner. Don’t forget this will appear on
every page so make it good.
Task 2: Saving the banners

 Save the banners

as a JPEG within
your Year 8
Computing folder.
Plenary

 Why do we need to be careful when using

images from the internet?
 What are the next steps in completing this
project?