Beginning Research, Africa

I am going to start my research on the content for my website. I shall start by looking at Africa because they are bottom in their placing within the Global Village. Although because parts of Africa have never experienced the World Wide Web does not mean they are not educated.

I have found a good book on Google which I will use for information for my website.
African people in the global village: an introduction to Pan African studies
 By John K. Marah
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZtQTvjyTi0oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=African+people+in&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QguVUY_wHIXJ0AWunYCIAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=African%20people%20in&f=false)

Background of Website

Now the map has been incorporated into my homepage background. I aim to have the navigation bar set up at the top into a table and the continents labeled. 

HTML (Adding my Map)

My map has now been added to my website. This is how I wanted my website layout. I am not sure what else to have on my homepage as I want the main focus to be on the map. The map also needs to be incorporated with the blue background rather than have that massive white bit behind the image. Also my continents need to be labeled so that my target audience can learn about them. A navigation bar also needs to be added at the top so it looks organised.

Key points to add to my website on Austalia's placing in the Global Village

Cartoons for my Map

To make my website more child-friendly I am going to add pictures of animals to my map to make young children more interested in my homepage. I fortunately am able to use my own pictures I've taken of animals on safari to make into cartoons.
Picture before:

And edited...

Phase 1 (Designing the world map)

Before commencing on my website the key part is designing my world map for the homepage. In doing my proposal I drew out the map by hand but have realised how time consuming that was. Instead of using drawings, I am going to use an existing graphic to get my outline for my map.

I am going to use this existing picture of a world map to get my outline on Photoshop for my map. I need to use a large image because this is going to be the focal point on my homepage. My whole idea for my website is also focused around this final image.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2J0cnuRdK-ZzZ9AGMtKRGvINIYw4bZpQHsvlklhnZLmw2XhOAX7noqu-wRu_FdJ1drKEOpXmoitiNInnlwxclzFFja6p09dxgO94VNijV5AZD2ZV0Jg1zYMV6Puhgy269Vza6TvUSt_A/s1600/world_map_.jpg)

Once I placed the image in Photoshop, I cut the countries out so that I had my shape of the world map. This will make it easier to add different colours to different continents.

Next using colour, I picked bright colours to make the map 'child friendly'  to capture by target audience. 

Then I removed the background as I wanted to use a blue/turquoise background in its place.

My first go at HTML

This is the first time I've used HTML. With this I've been able to achieve the colour I want for my background, I want this represent the sea in relation to my idea on doing a world map. I have been able to add what I want my navigation bar at the top to include. I need to make my navigation bar in interesting for my audience as I don't want to bore them.