When creating a new project for a company you want to make sure you have all the information needed to create the best site and designs. One of the first steps you would need to do in order to assure your projects outcome will be great is to ask questions. Asking questions will get you answers and ideas from the company you can use in your project. With out researching the company and their competitors it can easily stop your project from being successful. Sue Jenkins mentions in her lecture that if you know the company's competition and know what is and isn't working for that company you already have a jump start on your project and how to lay everything out to assure it works for you. She also mentions in her lecture key points you should look at when going to a competitors website.
Color theory works wonders on websites. Would you be interested in websites of the same nature that all had the same colors and general layout? I don't think I would be very interested, I would end up looking for something more original that you can tell the creator spent a good amount of time working on. When choosing colors for a website you want to chose colors that will grab the viewers attention. When sites have a lot of the same colors it tends to bore the person looking at the site. Most people are looking for something that will catch their eye and show creativity in the different colors and layouts on the website. Although many don't think this is an important factor in creating a website, it really is.
When asking questions for a project it is hard to narrow down the list of questions you may have to ask. When I work on projects I make a list of questions I have then I go through the list and pick out which questions I think will help me create an original creative project for the company. Another important factor when asking questions is to know what your goals are for the project. It is best to sit down and create a project plan for the project you are working on and make a list of goals. Always know your target audience as well, this is a very important step to creating a website or any project for that matter. Knowing who your audience will be helps you to put together a project that will catch the eye of this audience.
I really learned a lot from the lecture Sue Jenkins gave and I will defiantly be using her lecture to help with any future projects or websites I will be working on.
