The team project proposal is the team's justification of
its website project. This is very important. You may propose
to develop a new site or to redo an exisiting site.
Pick the wrong
project or wrong direction, then the whole project may be doomed
from the start. The instructors must OK your proposal.
Title of Your Web Site (and any existing URL)
Group Name
Group Memebers
Group Leader Name
Group Leader E-mail
Project Summary
Purpose and goals of your project:
State in
general terms what is the nature, purpose, and function of the site
you will design. What do you hope the finished site to accomplish.
Who will be the users and maintainers of this site. How are you
going to attract intended visitors to the site.
What impressions, services, uses, functions, feelings are you going to
create for a site visitor: new visitors and return visitors?
Technical aspects:
What techniques do you forsee using with your site design that will
enhance the usefulness/look and feel of your site?
Information Architecture asepcts: see Chapter 5 of textbook.
Design/Aesthetics aspects:
What design concepts, ideas, themes, look and feel, information architecture,
and other features will you consider for the site?
Site Analysis
If you are redesigning an existing site, then you also need
to consider the following.
Analyze the site for problems with HTML, links, and speed of loading.
Use sofware tools such as site sweeper, site checker, tidy and
similar software to run a diagnostic on the entire site.
Analyze the information architecture, completeness, consistency,
site organization, navigation, user-friendliness, and presentaton.
What ideas
in architecture and organization would you propose to include for
the new/improved site? What functionalities would you add to the
site.
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If the site is "unattractive" in your opinion, change it.
Consider the audience
and the "image" that the client may want to project.
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