Team Project

What is it? Information Design
· Goals & Objectives
· Audience

How should it work? Interaction Design
· Site plan
· Navigation

How should it look and sound? Content Design
· Style, layout
· Media used
· Images

Complete the web development process as part of a team. Your team is responsible for completing a website of at least 5 pages, presenting the site in a presentation, along with submitting a typed Site Guide.

We will number off into teams. Your team will determine the roles each team member will take on for each page: project manager, content developer/coder, and graphics developer. Each team member will take on a different role for each page. Eventually, you will have the opportunity to take on each role.

Each team will develop a website for a site of at least 3 pages, all of which will be created in Dreamweaver.

Prepare the Site Guide for your team website. Your Site Guide should include:

• goals & objectives for the site
• who your targeted audience is
• your site map
  • title of each page
  • brief description of the page contents
  • navigation/linkage between pages
  • image information
  • visual details(fonts, colors, styles…)
• project timeline and deadlines/work chart and schedule
• mockups
• notes from team meetings
• maintenance plan
• file naming format
• information on the software used to create the site
• team contacts (names & email addresses)
• server details (location, instructions)

The Site Guide should contain the answers to the following questions:

• topic of the website
• type of website (news, advocacy, advertising)
• sub-topics
• key message(s)
• audience and how your site is targeting this audience
• affective and effective aspects of the site
• user feedback mechanisms
• future enhancements
• market research- Include a minimum of 2 websites in your market research. Include the following information about these sites:
  
  • Web address/URL
  • What type of site is it and who is their target market?
  • Are they successful in targeting their audience?
  • Who is responsible for this page? Is it easy to locate this information?
  • What are the sections/subsections of this site?
  • Ease of navigation & usability
  • What do you like or dislike about this site?

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