The Group Website

Decision 1: Something different

For our assessment we are required to create a group news site, which mixes some archived information, with news stories as well as having some user input. Sam, Sophie, Adam, Liz and I make up our group and our first decision was to do something that none of us have done before.

Everyone has their specialities but we all agreed that this time we wanted to move away from dealing with what we are comfortable with and try and make something new. As we all know, it's not possible to always do what your good at, and the mix of people in our group would make for an interesting site.

Decision 2: Farnham

The one thing our entire group had in common was the fact that we all go to UCA and therefore have spent some time in Farnham. Therefore we thought it would be a good idea to make our site Farnham based. We liked the idea that we could try to entice people to Farnham with our website and show them that there is more to the small down than old people and dingy pubs. Our idea to sell Farnham to young adults and students was formed and we just had to decide how we would go about selling Farnham.

Decision 3: Our Take

We decided to make our website fairly light hearted and fun, we wanted people to see Farnham that way and therefore it had to come through in the site. We decided to concentrate on areas that would be interesting to young people, such as pubs, restaurants, shops and events around Farnham. We also decided that the East Street development would make an interesting news article and we could incorporate video images with a tour of Farnham.

So I hope you enjoy reading how we came to our decisions on our website and everything Farnham, and the work we put in to achieve what we hoped to.