About Us & News

About Us

The “About Us” page I knew would be text heavy, and probably not so frequently visited. Nonetheless, I thought it deserved to be one of the first pages seen in the list as the business itself is important.

I also thought that due to the intellectual nature of our consumers, a focus on our own history would be seen as a good thing.

Here I did some research into old history and created a fictional history with facts intertwined for the business to create the image I wished to give off and to situate the business in Aberystwyth itself.

At the end of the description I have added another photo-gallery with pictures I gathered off the web. All the pictures have QR code links to their origins on the web and the pictures under Creative Commons are attributed. Pictures from Wikipedia and free to use and modify however have not been attributed due to the need not to. Descriptions of the pictures are also fictional, but should come across thought out enough to be assumed as fact if the business were real.

News

The “News” section I knew would be text heavy. It was in essence a blog for the theatre, and so the content had to be good enough to hook our typical user but also relevant to the theatre.

Over the course of creating the site I have added seven blogs, firstly a welcome to the site blog, which “launched” at the very beginning of 2013. I also added two “Special Week” blogs; a Wes Anderson week to celebrate the aforementioned “The Grand Budapest Hotel” coming in April and the “French Week” happening in May referenced in my “What’s On” page. I also added a few information blogs concerning “We’re Hiring” in reference to my “Join the Team” page and a nod to the student population of the town and an update on the 3D projector mentioned in the “About Us” page. The other two are based around the advertising used on the homepage relevant to the user and an inclusion of a “Poll” - a tool I hadn’t used anywhere else, but thought would fit in on the side of this page - to decide whether the customers should decide on what they see for their cheaper Wednesday’s film.

I have incorporated this Poll on the side with a vintage style picture of Kitcheners “I need you” to go with the vintage style homepage picture. I have also added a "Reservio", “Reserve Seats” button to the side of the page as if a user has visited from an RSS subscription, this would be their landing page and so therefore, the opportunity to reserve seats should be available ‘at a glance’ too.