‘Educating You’ is a learning website for students designed to be a user-friendly, accessible and easy to navigate by all ages, allowing the user to access educational resources created by the Kingston students.
The website includes learning resources from games to quizzes. Parents are also able to access PowerPoint presentations to PDF files and Word documents of different topics from history to geography and it is all downloadable for free for online and offline use. Our website is designed to be user-friendly and easy to navigate around as the layout is simplified. So, all viewers of the website will not have any trouble navigating their way around.
For the design of the site, we went with a white background with lava-coloured text boxes. The two colours really go together well and make it more attractive and approachable for the consumers. The font chosen for the site is “Verdana” because this is easier for all viewers to read, as well as it stands out well. We wanted the layout of the site to be simple, straightforward, and easy to read. There are 4 text boxes of information to read on the home page once you visit the site. In the header, we have the Kingston hub logo and tagline on the left of the site, and on the right side is the link to the three pages of our site plus a link that will directly bring you to the Kingston hub signup form. In the footer, we have the links to all Kingston hub social media and websites. Having all the information accessible on every page of our site makes it easier to use.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in schools shutting down all across the world. As a result, education has changed with the distinctive rise of e-learning. Even with the current global situation, we, the students, have continued progressing in our learning and managed to create an easy to navigate website.