Website (20 marks)

Please remember that you must have each phase of a product (Investigation, Design, Production) signed off by your regular teacher before you proceed to the next phase of that product.

Outline
Your task is to produce a website for your company to help promote your product to members of the public. Your site should have a homepage and then an additional number of related pages to allow each member of the company to be responsible for the creation of at least one page. Your websites will be published through the school site so it is essential that you follow the guidelines given for pages attached to it.

Useful Tutorial Links

Investigation

Visit websites of similar products to yours.

For each site, record:

  • - the URL
  • - how their site is arranged into pages
  • - how they have tried to promote the product on the site.

Design
ON PAPER ...plan how you are going to divide your site into separate pages and (if you are both producing the website indicate which team member will be responsible for each page). Decide on a naming structure for your pages and any images that you plan to share.
As a group, decide on the 'branding' of your site. Within your site there should be a consistency of navigation and design, so as a group you need to think of heading sizes, background, navigation placement.
There are some useful links on Web Design on the 9IT page of this site.

Production

NB Freewebs is not suitable for this task! You are expected to use Dreamweaver, raw HTML, or FrontPage. If you would like to use another program you must check with your BB teacher first.

Create the webpages and link appropriately. All the files required by the website should be placed in one folder which should then be zipped up and submitted via the intranet.

Evaluation

Each webpage of your site needs to be evaluated by the members of the group who were NOT responsible for its creation. For each page these team members need to record

  • - which page they are evaluating
  • - what were the best things about the page
  • - what could have been improved

Remember that you need to be critical but also constructive. Try to be particular in your analysis.