InstructionsYour final project is to create an Internet Project Plan and Specifications document, similar to any strategy or planning document you would prepare for a client as a Web professional. Much of the material you create in INP200 homework and activities will be included in this report. Your final project should include a Cover Page, a Table of Contents, the content items listed below, and a mockup (plain vanilla HTML) of your Web site with links. The following content is required:
- Web Site Objectives and Project Scope - a high level description of the site you will create for your client.
- Audience Definition - a high level description of your audience
- Production Timeline/Schedule - a schedule of your delivery dates of the components. You will use your true internal project deadlines here.
- Success Criteria - How will you measure the success of the site?
- Branding, Design, Look, and Feel Specifications - What should be messaged in your site? What kind of mood do you want to convey? What should the visual tone of the site communicate?
- User Needs and Task Analysis - This is a more detailed look at what your users will accomplish by going to your site. Create profiles of three to five different users and identify their tasks, needs, and goals. This will not only help you and your client to better understand the audience, but it will drive the feature set you choose to include.
- Quality Assurance Plan: An overview of the steps to be taken to assure that the site meets specifications, conforms to standard grammar and spelling rules, and has all links working correctly.
- Content Inventory - A list or table with information about each content piece
- Information Architecture (a.k.a. Blueprint, Site Map) - the high level aerial view of the "buckets" of information in your site.
- Usability Test Findings - Results and data from our in-class usability studies and any others you conduct.
- Page Layouts (a.k.a. Grid) - For all levels and page types, provide a diagram of the layout, prepared in Fireworks, Illustrator, Visio or an equivalent tool.
- Technical Specifications - User machine and connection specifications, and possibly server configuration as well.
- Quality Test Findings - Report from the quality assurance steps.
- Maintenance Plan - Who will maintain the site? How will updates be made?
- Web Hosting Report - What options are available for a Web hosting provider? Which option is recommended, and why?
- Appendix A: Site Mockup (a.k.a. Wireframe) - Build a plain vanilla HTML site with links (no art, just content placeholders and references to images that may appear
Submitting
your workTo submit your work, please print a formal report. Provide, via email, a link to your Project Plan (even if it's in Word), along with the absolute URL of your site mockup to your instructor.
Audience: This
is for people who have some background in Web site design, and are ready to
put it into practice.
Objectives: When you successfully complete this lesson,
you will be able to...
About this document...
Module W75p: This document is part
of a modular instruction series in computer technology. For more information,
see the overview
or the list of modules in this series, W: World Wide Web.
This document has been used in the following classes: INP 200/210.