Transcript Setting Project Requirements

Setting Project Requirements
Step One
• The first step in creating a website is to define
the Purpose
Target Audience
• Who will be using the content of your website
• Consider the following characteristics:
– Age, occupation, gender, education, residence,
ethnicity and computer literacy
Target Audience
• Consider the following questions:
– Who will be the users of the site?
– How would you describe the users?
– Why will the users come to the site?
– How will the users access the site?
Content
• Developed once you have identified the
purpose, goals, and audience of the website
• Should be relevant to the purpose and
appropriate for the target audience
Relevant Content Characteristics
• Well-written, interesting and unique
information
• Links that point you to other parts of the site,
which include well-written information
• Information that will not become outdated in
a short period of time, as well as updated
content
Copyright Law
• Intellectual Property
– Refers to creations of the mind and may include
copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design
rights, and trade secrets
• Copyright
– A category of intellectual property providing
protection to the authors of “original works of
authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical,
artistic and certain other intellectual works
Copyright Law
• Derivative Work
– A work based on or derived from one or more
existing works (previously published)
– Must differ sufficiently from the original or must
contain a substantial amount of new material
• Publication
– Distribution of copies of work to the public by sale
or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease
or lending.
Fair Use Doctrine
• Allows copyrighted work to be reproduced for
a variety of reasons including news reporting,
teaching, parody, and research
• Simply recognizing the source of the
copyrighted information is NOT a substitute
for getting permission, and except incases of
fair use, you must obtain permission for all
protected material you want to use
Website Accessibility Standards
• Checkpoints
– Standards created to make the Internet accessible
to individuals with disabilities
– Organized around four principles of accessibility:
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Perceivable
Operable
Understandable
Robust
POUR Principles
• If any of these principles are not true, users
with disabilities are not able to use the web
Perceivable Content
• Information that is not invisible to all senses
• The content is presented in a manner that
permits users to comprehend it despite their
disability
• Provide text alternatives for all multimedia
and nontext content
• Include text that describes images
Operable Content
• Any user, no matter the disability, is still able
to operate the interface and use the
navigational elements
Understandable Content
• Giving the user the ability to navigate the
interface and ensuring that the information is
comprehendible
• Provide labels and instructions where input is
required
• Use the same navigational elements from one
page to the next in a website
Robust Content
• Users should access robust content through
the various assistive technologies
• Robust content should continue to work even
as these assistive technologies improve
Screen Readers
• Can read certain elements in a web page to
assist those users with visual impairments
• In the Accessibility section of the Preferences
dialog box in Dreamweaver, you can set
preferences that will prompt you to provide
accessibility-related information for images,
media, tables, form objects and frames as you
add those elements to a web page
Accessibility Standards
• Why do they matter to the target audience?
– Members of the target audience may have
disabilities; if the web site is not accessible to
them, your website will be useless to that user
– It is important to create a web site that will be
efficient, easy to learn, and satisfying to all users
Accessibility Standards
• Why do they matter to the client?
– A web site that creates customer satisfaction
should translate into increased sales and revenue,
which in turn will meet the needs of your client
Delivery Requirements
• When designing a website, you should
consider the relationship between end-user
requirements and the design and
development process
• Therefore, it is important to identify page
elements that may affect delivery
requirements
Considerations
• Connection speed, screen resolution,
operating system, browser type, and use of
plug-ins
Key Terms
• Deliverables:
– The items identified to show design concepts or
progress of the project
• Wireframe:
– A basic visual guide that suggests the structure of
an interface and the relationships between its
pages
– Serves as a design layout or blueprint that defines
each web page’s structure, content & functionality
Wireframes
• Created before any design work is started
• Used during planning stage to help you outline
page elements that may be affected by the
end user’s technical factors
• Helps to identify new requirements and
questions that may not have been considered
during the initial planning stage
Wireframes, cont
• Should contain all the important elements of a
web page
– Navigation, logo, content sections, search
function, areas for users to log in, rich media
content, tables, use of JavaScript, specific
technologies that require plug-ins (Flash,
QuickTime, Adobe Reader, Real Audio)
Planning
• The most important part of any successful
project
Planning Process
• Stage 1: Planning and Analysis
– Define goals, target audience, content and style
and delivery requirements
– Most crucial stage
• Stage 2: Scheduling
– Create a schedule with due dates based on
deliverable identified in stage 1
– Identify a plan of communication
Planning Process
• Stage 3: Building
– Develop a sketch of the layout (design comp)
which meets the needs defined in Stage 1 and is
approved by the client before moving forward
– Develop a storyboard to show navigation
elements
Planning Process
• Stage 4: Testing
– Test the project to ensure that it works properly
– Verify for accuracy before showing final product to
client
• Stage 5: Implementing or Publishing
– Once the final product meet’s the clients
satisfaction, publish it to the medium for which it
has been designed