...Unit 9 Assignment IT177-02 Website Design Unit 9 Assignment The entire concept behind website design is to be user-friendly. All content needs to be driven by the end user’s needs. Websites are used to relay information and entertain. A difficult to use or understand website will not garner any users, thus wasting time and effort. A website must be designed with all people in mind, from the disabled to the young. The average internet user has a very short attention span and if a website isn’t immediately engaging, the user will move on. There are also language barriers that prevent websites from being useful. Websites are created in every country, in every language, in every dialect of language. The content needs to be translated for the information to be universal. There are many tools and websites that translate information to be understandable to every internet user on the planet. Google Translate. Initial problems, with my last name being Bell, translation did not realize it was a surname, and translated it. I initially translated my page into German, where it translated it to Glocke. There are phrases that it also didn’t pick up and translate at all. Management Accounting and Bachelor of Science were not translated and left in English. However, when I used the site www.online-translator.com to translate my page to German, it realized that Bell was a surname and did not translate, and it also translated Management Accounting and Bachelor of Science properly into...
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...them to do after they visit your site? What should the user feel after visiting your site? Competition Who is your competition? (Keep a list of their websites) What do you like about their sites? What do you not like? Website Business Goals Why are you interested in building a new website? What do you want the site to do for you? What is the sites focus? Functionality Is there any functionality that you specifically want your site to have? (Blogs, RSS, Email List Building, E-Commerce etc) Do you have other internal IT systems we will need to integrate or share data with? Are you interested in Email marketing or building an email list? Are you interested in Search Engine Marketing? What interactive forms do you want to provide? Contact, E-Newsletter, Get Started? Where should this information be sent? Content What types of information do you want to put online? How much information will you have of each Type? Is the information already written? Will you write it yourself or will you need help with Copywriting? Do you want us to add the content to the website or would you like to manage it yourself. Design Concept: Do you currently have a marketing campaign or branding that you would like us to use in your website? Do you have an idea or...
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...Website Design and Development Web/240 October-Monday, 2012 Website Design and development The purpose for this website is to keep all the home owners at North Hills community updated on current events and issues that are occurring in the private community. This will be a central site that every home owner will have access to base on information about the community. The site is need to inform all home owners of any events, news, and schedules for the club house. This helps reduce any confusion of informing by home owners and reduce memos and letters being mailed out to home owners for any little update. Its starts to become spam mail at their house after a while. This site will be useful because this would be the central location for everyone to go to. Instead of calling the receptionist or asking a fellow neighbor, simply by going to the site the information is at their fingertips. Having the site is a quick update and everyone would know quicker than by mailing memos to home owner. The type of audiences would be home owners from the community. The location of which majority would be from home access and others from general offices. The site would be accessed about 200 – 300 home owners at any given time. The average age of the audience is about 30 – 65 years old. They are familiar with using internet and computers. The insight of developing this site is to make it as simple as possible to navigate and read. The audience would get easily inpatient if they cannot...
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...Website Purpose and Architectural Design The purpose of designing a website is to promote a business online. The design of any website is dependent only to its purpose and intent, so that a clear understanding of its goal will dictate its design. All the layout, information, functionality and its content should focused only to its main purpose. For this report, let us design a photographer’s website for a portrait studio specializing in family and children, even newborn babies, and event photography. Photo sessions can be taken in a studio location or to the clients’ homes, or to any location of their choice. The intended target for this website is primarily for families, but also caters to anyone who wants to have their pictures taken, whether on a formal studio setting or on any place of their choice. The content of the website will include the Homepage, Portfolio, Galleries, About, Contact, and Blog. The Homepage will have a grid layout of images from the most recent photography sessions. The Portfolio will have two menu selections for Portraits and Events, to showcase the photographer’s image processing ability. The Galleries section will show selected images that may or may not show under Portfolio, to promote the photographers versatility in every kind of special events and occasions. The About section is the photographer’s resume, qualification and maybe his current photography tools and gears. Contact section is the clients section to contact the photographer for...
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...Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior Tao Zhou, Yaobin Lu and Bin Wang 2010, Information Systems Management 2012 The Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior Tao Zhou, Yaobin Lu and Bin Wang 2010, Information Systems Management 2012 Analysis of “The Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior” Buying products and services on the Internet has become more popular worldwide. According to Zhou, Lu and Wang, (2009), over 298 million people use the Internet with 24.8 percent of these people making online purchases (p. 327). Website design quality and service quality are both important, but how do these affect consumer behavior? Website design definitely affects the first purchase of an item as customers as they eagerly decide to buy or decide not to buy, but what factors determine whether customers continue to buy? Website design quality is important because attracts customers to keep coming back to the website whether it is a simple thank you to keeping track of customer orders that have become complicated. Website design quality attracts customers to the website while service quality makes a difference by taking care of the service needs of the customer. Zhou, Lu, and Wang (2009) hypothesis that “compared with website design quality, service quality...
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...Unit 14 Web Design - Website Evaluation Firstly, my website meets the need of the users, clients and audience as it has information regarding Newcastle upon Tyne. As well as, there are contact details and images of the locations which is significant as this will allow the reader to be visually aware. Also, the tourist websites which I have looked at whilst evaluating the websites during Year 12 contained images and without them the presentation would appear to be dull and less appealing. Also, my user said that the website looked professional and the information was clear to read due to the use of understandable font styles and font colour. This is significant to make the text appealing because too much brightness would result in difficulty...
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...GSC vs TGV Introduction GSC Golden Screen Cinema Sdn Bhd (GSC) was found in 1981 as golden communications circuit. Golden Screen Cinema is the leading cinema exhibitor and it is also the largest cinema in Malaysia. GSC is a subsidiary of PPB group. PPB group is appearing on market the stock exchange of Malaysia. It is a group with benefit in environment engineering, waste management, entertainment property, food industries and utilities. GSC has a total of 191 screens in 23 locations nationwide, which include Klang Valley, Penang, Sungai Petani, Ipoh, Seremban, Melaka, Johor Bharu, Kuantan and Kota Kinabalu. GSC operates Malaysia’s first-ever boutique cinema with only Gold Class and Premiere Class halls and also introduce digital 3-D films and digital 2-D films. This company also launched a customized co-branded credit card in 2009. For example, Hong Leong credit card and paypal have such function to process online transaction for online purchase ticket. Besides that, GSC launch a mobile application which is GSC Mobile App especially for iPhone & Android phone that enables movie-goers to purchase tickets via m2u mobile, PayPal account or “RHB Now” (Android only) on their smart phones. Customers can enjoy “ticketless” option by scanning the 2D barcode on the screen of their smart phones at the selected cinema checkpoints. TGV TGV Cinemas is formerly known as Tanjong Golden Village. It is the second largest cinema chain in Malaysia. The largest competitor of this cinema...
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...How does a company's website attract potential employees? Introduction Companies have been moving to online recruiting as opposed to traditional methods. Internet recruiting is growing at a phenomenal rate and it is said that more than 80% of Fortune's Global 500 companies recruit on the internet. This is not only cheap but a lot of time is saved as well, when compared to traditional methods. Earlier this method was mostly used to reach potential employees of IT and engineering fields but now a wider range of jobs are in the picture, as most people have access to the internet. Majority of job seekers, young and old are active in using the web to look out for job opportunities, apply online and do checks on prospective employers. For companies finding a qualified candidate is an expensive process. The purpose of this paper is to show how companies can develop and utilize a successful website that attracts potential employees. Problem Statement The reality is that online recruiting will only save companies money if they are utilizing it effectively. Websites must also have the right content and share enough information about the company to attract the job seeker to apply. The problem statement addressed in this paper asks "How can a website be developed to attract potential candidates to apply for employment?" Many businesses do have very efficient websites for attracting and allowing job seekers to find and apply for jobs online. Most of these businesses are large...
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...There are many different elements that go into creating a website such as, the design, how will the customer or vaster use it, or even what it will even be about. Yet, so many fail to realize is the amount of effort it really takes to actually make a website work and not just work, but work smoothly. Still, even if the website runs well and looks great, it has to have customers/viewers coming to it. Otherwise, the site would be useless. First, when trying to produce a website, the designer/creator must make sure to have an idea of what that particular website is going to do. Whether it be a website for customers to come and buy specific products or for people to get in contact with old friends, such as Facebook or Twitter. Either way, the website needs a main topic or idea that will separate itself from all the other sites on the World Wide Web. Second, once the designer/creator has come up with an idea for the website, they then must create an actual design. The design does not have to be the fanciest, yet it must be structured enough for one to come and browse the site smoothly and easily. On the other hand, the designer may want the site to be very well put together, and that is fine, yet he or she must not diminish the way the site runs for the way it looks. Finally, the designer must launch the website. Once everything is put together, the designer/creator must make the site available for everyone, or those only desired, to come and view the webpage. They must also...
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...Usability When using a website, it is important that it is as simple to use as possible. Users are impatient and want to access the information on the website as quickly as possible without having to think of where to click to access this information. Users don’t read the whole content of the page, they scan it. It is therefore essential to design the web page with this in mind, therefore writing important information in bold and writing short, to the point headings. As illustrated in the figure below, this is what we have tried to convey on our website. We made sure we had the main point in bold and a bigger font. In regards to the five e’s efficient, effective, engaging, error tolerant and easy to learn, we believe we met these five characteristics. Especially in terms of it being efficient and engaging. Our website is efficient because the logo on the top left corner is linked to homepage on every page. This makes it easier for users to navigate back to where they started with the minimum amount of clicks possible. Our website is particularly engaging because we paid a lot of attention to the presentation of it to make it aesthetically pleasing to the user. The users immediate reaction to design and readability can change their relationship with the website and weather they would want to use it or not. One of the things we did to make our users of the website engage more was through the use of white space. In order for it to not come across as too cramped together...
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...company is engaged in selling and installation of CCTV Surveillance Cameras, PABX Telephone Systems, Biometrics Identification and Door Access Control Systems as well as computer and networking services. Being a successful contractor of Bayan Telecommunications and a service provider for LECSL installation/configuration, the company is now looking for ways on how to improve their business. Due to this, the researchers develop an e-commerce website for Infocom Solutions Powerlinks Co. that will enable the business firm to showcase their products and services online. In addition, the proposed website will include a knowledge-base system that will provide troubleshooting tips to site visitors with regards to basic computer and surveillance camera problems. Purpose and Description of the Study This study aims to create an e-commerce website for Infocom Solutions Powerlinks Co. that will allow the company to conduct online transactions and improve their company services through the use of the World Wide Web. Through the proposed E-commerce website, dissemination of product and services information as well as transactions of orders...
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...assessment of our related expenditures. There are three most common Internet business models - product sales, service sales, and information delivery. For this particular business of an automotive repair shop, I would like to make a mixed approach of 2 of the 3 business models. Apart from repairing automobiles and tires, which can be specified as service sales, the shop can also include the product sales by which they can sell the tires as well at a small scale. The proper model on which the website can be based could be a virtual storefront. There will be information on the storefront about the inventory about which tires are currently available at the store of the shop and what is the specification and price for each of them. Customers can have a look at the company's inventory and buy their specific item and have it shipped to them. They can use this service as a tool to pay their bills without going to the shop, which can be far from their location. They can place an order from home. The website can process payment information 24/7. There should also be such options at the storefront so that the customers can...
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...Website Migration – Tony’s Chips Website Migration – Tony’s Chips With Tony's Chips being purchased by the Acme Company, they would like a new change the way the website is used for the business. The old method was an externally hosted site with no online ordering options. The new website plan is for it to be redesigned to allow for online ordering, onsite web hosting, and site redundancy to allow for maximum uptime. What they are asking for is called the system development life cycle (SDLC). Systems development life cycle is defined as "activities and functions that systems developers typically perform, regardless of how those activities and services fit a particular methodology” (Shelly & Rosenblatt, 2011). The systems development life cycle contains the following steps in the model: required analysis, testing, implementation, documentation, deployment, and maintenance. Discuss what it will take to build a Web architecture, move an existing Website with minimal downtime, and provide a disaster recovery solution to ensure the site is always available. The new web architecture is a complete change from the previous implementation of the site causing an entirely new template and architecture. Previous setup used manual ordering, so they would have to call in or physically come in to order the chips. The new architecture will allow for online ordering that will free up more user time in answering phones taking orders. I am assuming the previous network architecture is...
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...Grayson Global Shipping: Setting Up Website & Blog Prepared for Michael Roads Vice President of Operations Grayson Global Shipping Prepared by Temeka Heard, Web Designer Multimedia & Designing Team Grayson Global Shipping November 23, 2013 MEMORANDUM To: Michael Rhodes, Vice President of Operation From: Temeka R. Heard, Multimedia & Design Team Date: November 23, 2013 Subject: How to set up Website & Blog for Grayson Global Shipping Here is the report you requested November 15, regarding how to set up both a website and blog for Grayson Global Shipping. I thank you for allowing me the opportunity to show you by aid of diagram of how to set up both a successful website and blog. Grayson Global Shipping has been known for their reputations in striving to provide the absolute best for its customers. In order for Grayson Global Shipping to uphold its reputation and to stay ahead of its competitors, the creation of what GGS is missing is key. I hope that you approve of the steps I will outline. I will outline ten steps regarding the framework necessary to implement these changes. The steps will include a discussion of the resources necessary to implement the site, the timeline for implementation and the benefits of implementation into working shape. I do understand both the doubts and uncertainties our employees currently have. They reservations because they are unsure if the direction GGS is...
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...The goals of this website should be demonstrated in several forms. When I sat down with relatives to talk about the goals of this one of the first questions that I ask is why you think the site should have any goals. Often, there’s a moment of uncomfortable silence before someone replies, because everyone genially thinks that IT is tremendously hard. A couple of the answers that I got were that asking for certain web addresses maybe a disadvantage. In addition, some courses build a website for branding purposes, or to provide information to potential clients, thinking that one-way communication is a return on investment, and therefore a valid goal. Another one of the goals that a user may see is that using a website is merely to provide information is like using an airplane to drive around town without ever leaving the ground, you’re missing the real opportunity to help your business take-off by creating opportunities to follow up with qualified prospects. Measurable objectives are the specific measures we use to determine whether or not we are successful in achieving the goal. The objectives are instructions about what we want the student to be able to do. Use verbs and include specific conditions that describe to what degree the students will be able to demonstrate mastery of the task for the website that any user would love to see. Some educators call these learning outcomes; others call them measurable objectives; and yet others call them behavioral objectives because...
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