Week 5

After doing some research into websites that can be adapted to work on Mobile Phones and Interactive TVs, I have found that a highly popular technology news site called "Hexus" would be a good choice to port to these platforms.
(www.hexus.net)

I feel this website would be a good subject to convert platforms for because the news contained in the site is sometimes relevant to the platforms its being read on (mobile phone news, technology releases and reviews, etc.). This would work especially well on the TV because users would be able to watch the stories from Hexus's video channel (www.hexus.tv), and then use Interactive TV to skip between different 'channels' from the .tv website.

Here is a mock-up of possible designs for the mobile website (compared next to the original website)...


Here is a mock-up of the Interactive TV content using a screen capture from a video on Hexus.tv, and showing what buttons a user would use to navigate the menu...


In order to give a proper taste of how the interactive TV will work, I will create a simulation similar to the mock-up shown above in Flash. Where the user will click the buttons highlighted on the remote control to navigate and change whats on the screen.

I will develop the mobile web page as a small functional web page written in XHTML with suitable content to give the feel that it is a fully working mobile website.