Target Audience

This is one of the most important issues i believe throughout the creation of the website reason being that the people and the age of the people is going to be important if i want to make sure the website suits both. The people im trying to appeal to is people who live in Ireland and people who have migrated. Reason being for people who have migrated is that if they had to move away because of work then they are wondering what they are missing out on, and with this website they will be able to check out all the photos of how the events are going and maybe considering would it be worth while maybe booking a flight home for these events. Irish residents, reason why i want to target these people is that there are a lot of people who don't realise of the different events that happen throughout the whole of Ireland and instead of booking a dear holiday away somewhere they could make a cheap weekend out of things and still have a great time learning. I know from me saying this how am i ever going to attract the age group from 14-60. I believe this age group is achievable mainly because there is a lot for all ages to do for example, if you have a child of say 18/19 who doesn't want to be there, i can defiantly say from experience that the night life while these events are on are probably the best nights craic i will ever have in my life and from being of an age of 22 an friends around the same age i can get them to back me up on this, that means from18-40 is sorted with night life. for the 14-18 i know they cant socialise to the late hours but there are events that run during the day to keep them occupied, tractor reversing, junior sports day etc... and for the 40+ all the activities that happen during the day is more than enough for them. So from all of this i can take away saying that i target Irish people who live and have fled the country from the age of 14-60.

Colour schemes, TypeFaces

The next phase after I have my mock storyboards done was to look at colour schemes for my website. By looking at the other websites that I showed early I am a little bit confused on what way to do it as it the boley fair one was a template used and had a background image of floorboards and an old time newspaper and the colour for the text and images were black and white. I then decided to google colour schemes to see if it could help me any and i found this website http://www.colorcombos.com/

The colour scheme above doesnt really appeal to me at all as what i would hope to maybe include in this website was a bit of an old time look but in a modern way if you understand me. Yes i want the colour green in mainly because Irelands most dominate colour is green so i will look for something that has that colour involved in it. 

I felt from this website that even thought the colour schemes they provided  for you were ok they still werent what i was looking for so i went back to google and chose the next website available to me and that was http://colorschemedesigner.com/

What i found out from this website was that it allowed you to create your own colour scheme this i liked as it meant you could mix around with different colours that i thought would go well with my website. From attempting to create my own scheme i realised it was a lot harder to do than i gave credit to so instead im going to look at different colours separately so that i know what shade i want and then see if i can make them work together.

the greens above i like but the one in the middle is what i hope to use to bring the Irish feeling into it. this colour i feel is bright yet not to dark for the website and with the other colour that i had in mind i think it will go quite well.

The next colour i went to look at was brown, for some mad reason i have this colour in my head to represent the old part of this the culture part of it. the brown in the bottom right is what i am hoping to use but whether this will work out or not is a different story. but only one way to find out which is to try it.

The next part for me to research and try and decide upon is the typeface that i am going to use. Now because this is an irish site do i want to use an old time gaelic style of writing for it or not. the only thing i have against this type of writing is that i am trying to do an old style website but modernise it a bit as well so chosing these correctly is vital.

as you can see from above this typeface is nice yes but whether i could use it throughout the whole website or not is the next thing.

The typeface above i kind of like just because of the look of it, i feel it would give a more modern appeal to my website but whether the two of these typefaces will work will have to be seen later on.