44212: Web-site Development Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Ian Perry Room:C49 Extension:7287

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 2 Remember a Web-site should support a Web Presence  i.e. the necessary interaction between an organisation and those in the Internet/Web community they wish to do business with. Organisation Intranet Internal E-Business Customers Internet Business-to-Customer E-Commerce Suppliers Extranet Business-to-Business E-Procurement Both up and Down the E-Business Supply Chain:

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 3 Design Decisions?  Define your Business Goals: decide which business processes are best supported (or replaced).  Be clear why you are creating this site: by deciding what you want your Web-site to Be and Do.  Make sure that you: Know your Audience!

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 4 Remember your Audience?  You are NOT designing for yourself: design is no substitute for functionality.  Make it easy to find what matters: snail-mail addresses and telephone numbers should not always be easily found!  Have realistic expectations: even if they are modest ones.  Start small, but design for scalability: Web-sites suit a phased development, but “Under Construction” notices are BAD!

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 5 Things NOT to do on a Web Page!  Don't crowd images.  Don't be inconsistent with structure.  Don't have too much information (data?) on a single page.  Don't leave the important stuff for the bottom.  Don't violate white-space balance.  Don't forget other platforms & browsers.  Don't forget to make the title of each Web- page very descriptive.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 6 “Keep it Simple”  And your Web-site will be: easier to build; consistent structure, common ‘look-and-feel’, easier navigation, etc. easier to maintain; no Web-site is ever complete, they are always ‘under construction’, so NEVER say so!  And remember that “less is definitely more”: except when it comes to testing!

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 7 Use your Web Development Plan! 1.Business Analysis; What business processes/problems does the Case Study organisation have? 2.Competition Analysis; How have other, similar, organisations used the Web in order to support their business processes. 3.Content Decisions; Which business processes might be best supported, and which problems might best be solved, by an Internet/Web solution? 4.Site Map; How will the Content be organised, i.e. what shape will the Web-site be?

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 8 How to Build a Web-site?  Name all files on the ‘Site Map’. this will save a lot of anguish later!  Develop the ‘standard’ Web-page: most (all?) Web Pages will look like this. make the major navigation ‘work’.  Use copies of the ‘standard’ Web-page: for a consistent ‘look-and-feel’. adding the Page Content as required: from existing documents if possible?  Test, test, test!

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 9 Name ALL Files on Site Map flights.htm Home Page Flights Accommodation Car HireTravel Insurance Booking Request Annual Single Trip index.htm accomm.ht m car.htm insure.htm annual.htm single.htm book.htm

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 10 Develop the ‘Standard’

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 11 Use the ‘Standard’  Open the ‘standard’: save (immediately!) with a new file name, i.e. refer to the names on your ‘Site-Map’.  Add the ‘Page Content’: utilising existing text and images where ever possible.  Examine the Results: and make any necessary adjustments.  Repeat for all Web-pages: using the same ‘standard’.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 12 Look at all of your Web-pages using Internet Explorer

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 13 Take Your Time & “Keep it Simple”  Spend quite a lot of time developing your ‘standard’ Web-page: you don’t want to have to change the ‘standard’, having already used it to build several Web-pages with the original ‘bad’ version.  Make sure that you only work with files that are located in ONE folder: or work only on a floppy disk; as that is what you have to hand in.  And remember that “less is definitely more”: except when it comes to testing!

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 14 WSD Assignment 2 NB. Deadline = 26 April 2006  Web-site Implementation 70% of Web-site Development Marks  What is required? Implement an appropriate ‘Web-site’ for the case study organisation, based on your submission for Assignment 1, i.e. your 'Web Development Plan'. MUST: fit on, and work from, a single 3.5” Floppy Disk, so optimise ALL of your Image files. Home Page MUST: have the file name index.htm

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 15 ABM Car Sales - Case Study  ABM Car Sales: are fairly new to the Scarborough area; having ‘set up shop’ in specialise in the sale of Audi, BMW & Mercedes; hence their name. only sell pre-owned (i.e. second-hand) cars, only sell cars that are a maximum of 5 years old; although they might make an exception for a particularly good/unusual/rare example of one of the above marques. don’t really like to have any cars for sale at less than £5,000; as they want to differentiate their business on price, as well as type of car.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 16 ABM Car Sales - Case Study  ABM is owned and operated by 3 Partners (Andrew, Brittany & Malcolm); each of whom specialise in one of the marques available for sale.  ABM also employ: an Administrator; who keeps all of the necessary paperwork up-to-date, 2 Mechanics; who check the vehicles that are bought, or accepted in part-exchange, for any problems and either carry out the necessary repairs themselves, or locate a local specialist if the ‘problem’ is beyond their capabilities, and a Forecourt Person; who makes sure that the cars are looking their best for potential customers.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 17 ABM ‘want’ a Web-site!  You have been recently appointed as a Web Consultant, and are tasked with using the Internet/Web to; “increase public awareness of ABM Car Sales, and of the quality pre-owned cars they have available for sale”.  i.e. You are to: develop a Web-site that will provide a suitable Web Presence for ABM.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 18 Assignment 2: Web-site Implementation Deadline: 26 Apr 2006 ( 70% of Marks ) 1.Robustness (15 Marks) The extent to which your Web-site has been fully tested, so that there are no broken hyperlinks, no missing images, and that both spelling and grammar are accurate. It will be difficult (IMPOSSIBLE?) to give you very many (ANY?) of the rest of the marks for this assignment if the Web-site does not function. 2.Consistency (15 Marks) The consistency of the Web-site as a whole, the chosen Navigation Method(s), and the structure of individual Web-pages.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 19 Assignment 2: Web-site Implementation Deadline: 26 Apr 2006 ( 70% of Marks ) 3.Creativity (15 Marks) The elegance, ingenuity and downright style of your Web-site. 4.Business Relevance (40 Marks) The extent to which your Web-site is ‘appropriate’ for this business – i.e. how well it supports specific business processes. 5.Web-site Evaluation (15 Marks) A critical evaluation of the ‘appropriateness’ of the Web-site you have produced.

Ian Perry 44212: Web-site Development: Review & Assignment 2 Requirements Slide 20 No more Lectures!  There will be no more Lectures in support of the WSD Module.  There will, however, be TWO more Workshops, i.e.: 17 March, March, 2006  Make sure that you attend these Assignment Support Workshops if you need my help.  And Remember that the Assignment 2 Deadline is immediately after the Easter Break, i.e.: 26 Apr 2006  Good Luck!