After applying the client's minimum requirements, a prototype website has been successfully designed.

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Introduction:

After applying the client’s minimum requirements, a prototype website has been successfully designed. This report clarifies how does the website constructed and what tools have used to design the website. In addition, the report explains about the different type of media that has been used in the website. Moreover, the report shows the different between the actual website design and the current website design.

Target audience and the website colours:

The Orbit Mobiles website has been designed for those people who are interested in buying new mobile phones or purchase ringtones. Nevertheless, Orbit Mobiles web site is appropriate not just for those people who are interested in buying new mobile phones but for all visitors categories. In addition to that, the website provides some useful information about the shop location, opening hours and the shop contact details.

Colours are one of the most important factors that designers have to consider when designing websites. The colours of the website are important hence, the colours will define the mood of the website visitors as well as they reflect the designer identity. It can be seen that the main two colours in the website are blue and yellow.  The reason of choosing the blue colour is that the blue has considered to be one of the most calming colours which make the users relax. On the other hand, the yellow colour symbolize warmth so, using the light yellow will reduce the darkness of the blue. Besides, the yellow colour contrasts well with the dark blue and that is the most important reason for using it.

Media including Images, animation, text and Sounds:

Occasionally, images contain more than the designer’s message to the user however, images can say thousand words comparing to the text (Nigel Chapman and jenny Chapman). GIF animation pictures have been applied as a multimedia element in the website. In the ringtones page, it is beneficial to use Gif animation pictures to draw the user attention to click on the picture to listen to the ringtone sample. In addition to drawing the user attention, Gif animation pictures is one of few formats which support the image transparency that the image appears to have no visible border around it, and that is noticeable in the Nokia, Siemens and Sony-Ericsson pages. Another image format which has been used in Orbit Mobiles website is JPEG images due to its ability to obtain higher image quality especially when the images contain many colours. Alt tags (alternative text) have been added to all the images in the website that Alternative tags give the user an idea of what the image is about. Once all of the images have alt. tags then the page will be more accessible to people who use non-visual browsers.  Besides, it has been taking into account the minimum images size to be used in the website.

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Animation catches the eyes and makes things noticeable but like sound, animation quickly become trite if it is incorrectly applied (Tay Vaughan, page 285). Although animation adds a visual impact to any website, it has to be used carefully and sparingly to achieve that impact. Besides, a small animation movie has been created in director 8.5 and flash 5 and then it has been converted to a shockwave movie. There are two reasons to convert the director movie to a shockwave movie; the first one is that the shockwave movie is compressed which will reduce the size of the ...

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