Group 6 Collaborative Website Doris Broz, Anna Travers, Amber Liposchak and Jeanne Kliewer Spring 2013

Proposal Summary create a website for client Cindy Wells’ called Beads in the Henhouse. Ms. Wells creates glass beads and then fashions them into jewelry pieces such as necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Proposal Goals ● Create a basic website to showcase the products of Beads in the Henhouse – The site is to contain separate pages for: ● Beads ● Necklaces ● Earrings ● Bracelets ● Jewelry- & Bead- making classes ● Home and about page

Site Goals ● clearly organized and lacking clutter; easily navigable, unambiguous, and user friendly ● color palette that compliments, but does not overwhelm the merchandise ● clean white background to showcase products ● merchandise will be laid out below header in simple grid pattern

Features and Technical Requirements ● supported by all common browsers, especially Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari ● compatible with mobile devices as well as computers ● bandwidth range anywhere from 3 to 300 mbps ● aim for accessibility to lower bandwidth users in order to reach the largest number of users

Home page Necklaces Handmade Beads Bead 1 Beading Lessons About/ Contact BraceletsEarrings Bead 2 Bead 3Necklace 3 Necklace 2 Necklace 1 Bracelet 2 Bracelet 1 Bracelet 3 Earring 2 Earring 3 Earring 1 As many pages as items Proposed Site Map

Home page NecklacesBeadsLessons About BraceletsEarringsContact Finished Site Map

Production Progress Home page, 4 product pages, Lessons, About, and Contact pages HTML and CSS coded and functional Users can view products and purchase with PayPal Client has viewed the site - positive feedback Next steps: validation and usability testing Home page, 4 product pages, Lessons, About, and Contact pages HTML and CSS coded and functional Users can view products and purchase with PayPal Client has viewed the site - positive feedback Next steps: validation and usability testing

Who did what? Doris Jeanne Anna Amber Client wrangler/contact Coding “about” and “lessons”pages User Profile Production Schedule Site Map Coding and copywriting product pages Paypal integration Homepage mockup and coding Contact page Technical requirements and sustainability Java Script for slide show Graphic design factors/logo Coding and copywriting product page Edited and formatted project proposal

Challenges or Difficulties  Client – Meeting deadlines with Content  Made suggestions  Gentle reminders – text messages  Wrote some of the content ourselves  Photo Quality  Used what we had  Client plans to get higher quality pictures in future  Adobe Connect  Delays, Echo, Freezing  Should have tried another system  Time zone differences  Scheduling  Not meeting in person  Coding  Everyone participated in coding – consistency  File Name Confusion - finally decided on which to use  Coding in general – new to all of us  Web Hosting  Multiple files for pages –Thought we could use Site44 free dropbox hosting  Client does not wish to pay for hosting at moment

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