Purpose of the website of the history of your townland

Banner purpose of website for townland history

Assignment

Design, develop and implement a Web Site for an identified audience.

The web site must demonstrate correct use of formatting, graphics, page layout, links and anchors, imagemaps, lists, tables, comment and Meta tags. The web site will be evaluated in terms of:

Presentation of content

Design

Site Objectives

Appropriateness for intended audience

Site Structure

Navigation Solution

Browser compatibility.

Access Speed

On the following pages is a suggested checklist for your Website and a guide to the creation of your Report. The report should contain most or all of the features mentioned and be in the region of 1500 words.

Website Checklist
File Structure	Completed
Website Folder created
Video/Still images and sounds stored in the Correct Folder
Files correctly named

Design Consideration	Completed
Web Site Objectives reported on
Target Audience reported on
Site Map/Structure created
Appropriate content used
Consideration given to Access Speeds

Navigation	Completed
Links, Anchors, Hit Counters,etc.
Frames used and reported on


Compatibility	Completed
Website viewed in various Browsers, (i.e. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.) and reported on
Viewed at 800600, 1024768, 1280*1024 resolution and reported on
Web Safe fonts used and reported on
Images	Completed
Images correctly displayed
Alternative text used for every image
Image maps used

Formatting	Completed
CSS styles applied correctly

Promotion of Site	Completed
Meta Tags Used
Website uploaded to the UL Server
Submitted to search engines
Evaluation of Site	Completed
Self Evaluation of Website
Submitted to evaluation sites
Access speeds in the various Browsers reported on
Feedback Form

The report to contain a screen dump of the main page of the web site with its URL clearly Visible.

Introduction

Introduction to include:

Table of contents
Description of Website
Reasons for choice of Website

Knowledge Base

Where did you get your information?

Internet, local information, library, newspaper, magazines, your own background knowledge etc.

Is the Information correct and current?

Aims of Web site

List a few specific aims of the web site in a bulleted manner.

Website life cycle

Present a realistic work schedule.

Planning
Collecting material
Flowcharting/sitemaps
Design
Testing

Planning

List the URL of 5 Websites that you viewed which have similar aims to your Website.

Recommended sites
Web site 1	URL:
2	URL:
3	URL:
4	URL:
5	URL:

Evaluation of Websites

Each web site must be evaluated on the basis of

Target audience

Navigation

Ease of use (friendliness)

Colours used

Graphics used

Spelling, grammar etc

Target Audience

The target audience has a big influence on the size and complexity of the design. The intended audience is?

Give details, important characteristics, etc.

Software Used

What software was used in the development of the web site?

(Dreamweaver)

Structure of site

Give the structure of your Website and explain why you used your model.

Flowcharts/Storyboard

Show examples of the storyboard you created at the start

Navigational Rationale

Did you use a navigation bar, Rollovers, site map?

Discuss all the features that might help in navigation and then discuss what you did.

Naming of files and folders

What type of conventions did you use?
What file formats did you use and describe the options available to you i.e. jpg vs. gif etc

All Images should be stored in an images folder, sounds in a sound folder etc.

Typographic

Discuss the use of fonts in general. What font did you use and why?

Colour Scheme Used

Colour scheme used

Graphic sources

Where did you get your graphics? Drawn/Manufactured, Internet, scanning, disk etc.

Did you have to edit them? How?

Did you have to optimise graphics?

Page download times.

Page Name	*Download times at various speeds*
Page Name	28.8	56.6	ISDN	Broadband

Web safe colours

Discuss the use of web safe colours in general and then focus on why you chose the colours you used. In Dreamweaver you can choose Windows, Assets and choose the colour and use that as a screen dump as it clearly indicates the web safe colours.

Use a screen dump from the assets section in dreamweaver.

Screen size used

Discuss screen size and resolution settings? Then explain why you used your setting

How does your site view on the different screen sizes, describe?

http://www.anybrowser.com/screensizetest.html

Use of frames

Why did you use frames?

Indicate why you used the particular set of frames and other options you may have considered.

CGI scripts

Explain CGI and describe how it’s used, e.g., hit counter and forms?

Other considerations

Do you have any long pages? How did you counteract the negative effect? Anchors