Your Client Web Site Should:
- Present a real client with an actual or potential web site consisting of 3-5 pages.
- Simulate as closely as possible the actual implementation of a web site for the client.
- Demonstrate all of your Internet and WWW skills.
- Try to push your skills.
- Balance this with the client’s needs.
- Try to make this a real, usable site. Your goal should be to actually put the client on the web.
Suggested Final Client Project Ideas
- Select a client (campus organization, non-profit group, small business, etc.) about whom you have some passion.
- Avoid chain or franchise businesses (Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, etc.)
- Ideas:
- Create and place online a web site for any student organization
- Develop a home page for Porterville College alumni
- Create a web site for a PC department (business, science, etc.)
- Develop a site for a community activity (Apple Festival, Iris Festival, etc.)
- Develop a site for a local business
Steps for Preparing for the Final Client Web Site
- Create a diary or some form of note taking now so you can sum up the steps you followed to create your web site.
- Find a home for your site. Create an obvious link to it from your homepage.
- Find similar sites on the web.
Interview the Client
- Plan your web site
- What do they want to accomplish?
- Who is responsible for client information now?
- It is not acceptable to simply take existing documents and make the WWW accessible.
- Read "Best Practices: Process for Creating a Web Site" (http://www.state.oh.us/bestpr/process.stm)
- You may have to educate the client on what a web site can do for them. (http://www.islandnet.com/~pb/benefits.html)
Take the following into consideration:
Audience: Who are you designing for?
Content: What information will be presented in the site?
Structure: How will the information fit together?
Navigation: How will readers navigate around the site?
Constraints: What constraints do you need to consider?
Addressing: What filenames and url addresses should you use?
Hosting: Where on the internet will your web site be hosted?
Submit Final Client Project
- Make an obvious link from your personal home page to your client’s.
- You will publish a report of the steps you followed to create the client web site. This report must be online and linked from your home page, homepage.htm.
- How does this site compare to others in this category. Include the URLs of at least two other sites that are comparable to your client’s business.
- Is the home page enticing?
- Is the web site consistent from page to page?
- What is there about the content that will bring browsers back?
- Can users easily contact the web site client via the page (do you have the required form, email addresses, and phone/fax numbers listed?)
- How does the web site provide for inclusion of timely and current information?
- How can readers interact?
- Have a form or explain why you don’t.
- List phone numbers and email addresses as applicable.
- Use Dr. HTML or similar services to validate your pages.
Grading
- Final project grades will be determined on the following criteria:
- 2-4 web screens (500 words) online report (report.htm) that addresses the guidelines above. This document must be clean (grammar and spelling count). Examples will be available.
- Include a description of the company and its goals.
- Include a description of the project and any issues you encountered.
- Explain why you chose certain design elements over others.
- Be sure to address each of the items in this assignement.
- Include how you followed the Web Style Guide and any other guides you may have used.
- Originality and creativity count.
Turn in the following paperwork:
Project Summary and Response to Peer Reviews Mission Statement - address each of the following:
- What is the mission of your organization?
- How will creating a mission support your mission?
- What are your immediate goals for the site?
- What are your long-term goals for the site?
- What web-related strategies will you use to achieve those goals?
- How will you measure the success of your site?
- (Have your client sign the mission statement)
Peer Reviews
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- Page validation printout
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