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My client’s name is Bunny Petty; she is the senior English teacher at Florence High School and is also a part time professor for Central Texas College. She teaches College classes to high school Juniors and Seniors who test into it. She has a basic site right now, which is required for all the teacher at the school. However, most of the information on it it out of date, and she would like it to be more updated. The school does not require a certain structure for the teacher’s web pages and there is no limit to what they can and cannot have on theirs. She would like her tone to be professional and educational. She does require that her schedule, class rules, and the syllabus for the duel credit classes be on there.  She would also like a short biography to be presented. English web pages that she would like hers to be similar to and would like to be able to connect to from her site are http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ , www.citationmachine.net, and www.ctcd.edu .

In order to create a web site you must follow six major steps. Which are site definition and planning, information architecture, site design, site construction, site marketing, tracking, evaluation, and maintenance. Possibly the most important thing about starting a site would be to make sure you have the right people to create the site, the budget to back the site, and that you will be able to maintain it. 

The initial stage is to set your goals and start your planning. Figure out the budget, the site’s content, it’s functionality, and technology support required. You also need to make sure that you hav everything you will need for production, all the technology needed, web server support, and enough for the budget to create and maintain the site. Every site needs a project manager and a process manager.

The project manager creates the site and once it is running they hand it over to the process manger who may or may not be the official editor of the site. The site editor also makes sure that all materials that are copyrighted on the site are not misused.

At this stage, site design, a content architecture should be drawn out and prototypes created. You need to keep your site organized and well designed in order to atract more viewers. You can create templates, it is much easier to add pages to a web site when when you can work of a page that contains all the basic navigations. You also need to make sure your site is accessable to all users.

When you get to the more mature stage of site construction is when the bulk of the site’s pages are constructed. You want to wait until now to start your site because you want to make sure you have all the components needed, a tested wireframes and prototypes, and a polished page to put on your site.

“Once it has all be constructed… it is ready for user testing.” Which should be done by people who were not involved in creating your site or in your site development team. Someone that will give informed criticism and tell you of any bugs, typograhic errors, and or design malfunctions.

All of my information has come from http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/1-process/7-development-process.html

set your goals

  

The first thing a web page needs is an objective.

    

 

  A web page must be planned in order to be succesful. Which requires getting a team together and setting your goals for the page. Then you must create a charter stating everything you planned to do, everything that is needed to do this, and how long it will take to finish it. Doing all of this will atract more viewers to your site.   

In an ideal job a team can be created to make the web page. Some of the skills need for a development team are strategy and planning, project management, information architecture and user interface design, graphic design for the web, web technology, and site production. The project manager keeps the page up to date and fresh which will keep people to come back.   

I am Ali and I am a student at the Art Institute of Austin. I am getting my associates degree in Web Design and Interactive Media.