...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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...like us to do for you, etc. You give us examples of what you want and we design a product with the look and feel that matches your taste, with our designers’ input on internet usability and web site design. You will have a site that not only looks good but is easy to navigate, as well as incorporated best practices from our experience as designers and developers. Templates have come along way, our web designers have the skills to create a custom sites from scratch or we can use elements from a template that you like to create a look that is right for you. We believe that if a template is used we should make it look and feel as unique as your business. (Your business deserves it). We do not suggest using any template as is, nor should a website be all "Flash", which is not a good idea for many reasons. We highly recommend using certain elements of a particular template and not the template as a whole. Take a look around the internet for templates and see if there is a particular design that catches your eye. Send...
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...experience by a vast collection of information technologies and applications that allows web users to interact socially, collaboratively, and more or less the ability to participate with ease, as these technologies and applications encourage users to do so. Web 2.0 allows Web users to be a part of the development and growth of different websites and the web, instead of just visiting a website and browsing through its information. Different applications and information technologies include Wikis, Mashups, Tagging, Blogs and blogging abilities, Podcasting and video uploading, etc (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009). A few disadvantages of Web 2.0 is the fact that communication and sharing of information has now become unrestricted. This means that copyrighted material caqn now be infringed upon and even altered. Web 2.0 has made it to where users are more dependent on its technologies for research and information, socializing, etc. There are also a lot of unsecure websites that use Web 2.0 technologies and that poses a lot of threats as well, including accounts being hacked, spam, viruses, unknown scripts, etc. According to "Advantages Of Web2.0 Development And Web 2.0 Development Services" (2011), major advantages of this technology are its dynamic content, user participation, scalability, metadata, openness, collective intelligence, and also its rich user interface. Web 2.0 has impacted businesses in a number of ways. Web 2.0 has allowed businesses to provide more innovative...
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...Explaining a concept: Website migration project Name Course Instructor Date Website Migration Project In this current era, every business is going online, and most of the selling and buying of goods and services is being done n online. That is why Tony chips should also have a website where it can be able to advertize its business and reach many customers. This paper will cover the steps and requirements on how Tony chips will transfer web hosting from an external source to internal as well as how to make their website redundant. In the efforts to build that redundant and scalable website, the key principles of availability, performance, reliability, scalability, manageability and cost require much attention (Matsudaira, 2012). Also, the SDLC must be duly followed as it is the requirement of any system. These are systems planning, system analysis, system design, system implementation, and lastly system support/security (Shelly & Rosenblatt, 2012). System Planning In this phase, the familiarization of the processes involved and objectives of the business must be well highlighted. A formal business plan needs to be in place to show which operations the company will undertake. There is a need to know all participants in the whole migration process and the time when they will you require then in the migration process. As the one of the requirements is that the website needs to be hosting should be internal, it means that a server there is a server requirement. Besides that...
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...Evaluating a Website for Credibility Rashida Kapasi Chamberlain College of Nursing August 26, 2014 Evaluating a Website for Credibility A website chosen for the evaluation is KidsHealth.org. The purpose of this website is to provide information about the health of children and teenagers in a manner that is easy to understand. This website claims to be the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. All the information is divided in four sections, providing information for parents, children, teenagers, and for educators. This website is easy to find through the Google search engine. That is understandable, taking into account the fact that Kids Health gets a million visits on a daily basis. The Web Address of this site follows the HTTP pattern. The uniform resource locator is http://kidshealth.org. The domain of this site is org., meaning that the domain extension is used by a non-profit organization called The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media. The rationale behind the selection of the website is verifying of the website’s claims of being the most-trusted source for physician-reviewed information on children's health. Empirical evidence for the decision comes from the online library Caphis, which puts Kids Health in the Top 100 List of “Health Websites You Can Trust”, and Time Lists (Buenchner, 2004) name this site to be among 50 best...
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...learn a lot more than other developers. Web developers may also need to learn design skills, depending on the kind of work they want to do. There is a whole different area of developing web sites related to the design work, which is usually done by Web Designers, but for some small projects or clients, the web developer often does that work as well. Hopefully that has cleared it up. Let’s get into what you need to do to become a web developer. You Don’t Necessarily Need a Degree Web development is one of the few IT roles that I’ve noticed that you don’t actually need a degree for. This might be a good thing for many of you, as I’ve had a lot of questions about getting into IT without getting a degree. Now, this isn’t a firm rule. I’m not saying you can definitely get a web development job without a degree. I’ve just noticed that it’s possible. Many other jobs, such as software development and project management, usually require a degree in Computer Science or something similar. Web Development, on the other hand, can be achieved with experience. Learn the Languages of the Web: The...
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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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...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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...If you are a business, a blogger or you have a website, you must be familiar with Wordpress. If you are not using it yourself, you know of a business or individual using WordPress. Word press is a web platform created through merging entrepreneurial and web development skills, to bring different features. From its first launch in 2003, WordPress has continued to gain more popularity all over the world. At its launch it was just a simple CMS (content management system), but was competent for blogging purposes. It is until recent years that people stopped viewing WordPress as a blogging website, but as a publishing platform for building blogging and building websites. Millions of websites are powered by WordPress. Big companies are also using word press. Word press is a friendly and versatile CMS. What exactly has led to its popularity? These are among the numerous reasons why it has gained acceptance all over the world. Stable plugins and economy. Word press plugins require no other plugins and frequent updates. Word press offers so many quality plugins that functions perfectly well. There are actually free plugins that can do most of the things perfectly well. This reduces the cost of monitoring and frequent maintenance. It is an ideal platform for any business that has little downtime or costly maintenance online presence. Multiple options. Word press recently introduced the option of hosting more than one Wordpress site. On the same installation. This feature...
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...Internship Report Summer 2002 By: Danielle Cauthen Company: 3M Internship Dates: May 2002 - July 2002 Table of Contents 1. Biographical Sketch 2. Company Background 3. Internship Program pg. 3 pg. 3 pg. 3 4. Internship Project 4.1 Project Overview 4.2 Project Relevance 4.3 Project Timeline 4.4 In-House Training 4.5 Project Tasks and Results 4.6 Project Evaluation 5. Technical Products 5.1 Design Description 5.2 Code 5.3 Sample Outputs 6. Professional Growth 6.1 Challenges 6.2 Technical Skills Acquired 6.3 Business/Management Skills Acquired 6.4 Lessons I Would Apply to Next Internship 7. Summary/Conclusions pg. 3 pg. 4 pg. 4 pg. 4 pg. 5 pg. 5 pg. 5 pg. 5 pg. 5 pg. 6 pg. 6 pg. 6 pg. 6 pg. 7 pg. 7 pg. 7 pg. 7 2 1. Biographical Sketch I am originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and am currently a graduating senior at Florida A&M University, majoring in Computer & Information Sciences. After graduation, I will be attending graduate school, in the Fall 2003, to pursue my master’s degree in Computer Science, at, hopefully, New York University. As far as previous internships, I have had three summer internships with 3M, starting the summer after my freshman year, and, in this report, I will be discussing my third and last internship with 3M this previous summer. 2. Company Background 3M, which stands for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, is headquartered in St. Paul, MN, and is a diversified manufacturer of...
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...section of this assignment requires you to write recommendations to improve the design of a real website. Description of the assessment Please visit the following URLs and select an example of bad design and a good design (follow the link to get to the actual badly designed website). http://www.jimwestergren.com/worst-web-design-ever/ http://www.websitesthatsuck.com/ You need to select at least 3 criteria listed below to assess your website against: * Navigation * Visual effects (colour scheme, typography, page layout) * Website layout / access to different web pages on the website * Pages download speed * Site consistency * Security * Content and professionalism You need to describe the best development practices in the chosen criteria and also explain how the chosen website violates these practices. Insert relevant screenshots to illustrate your point. Finally, recommend improvements based on your observation. You may sketch the suggested modifications in addition to verbal description. This task requires an extensive research on web design beyond lectures in this unit. List and cite references which you use to discover good web design practices. You should not use statement like “I did not like…” as you are not an expert on web design. Your statements should be similar to the following: “The accepted practice is to … This website violates this practice because …” Please write an academic report of approximately 1000...
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...Case Study Interactive media: Interactive Media is the modern communication technology with social networking websites. These sites use graphics and text to allow users to share photos and information about themselves, chat and play games. Video games are another type of interactive media. Players use controllers to respond to visual and sound cues on the screen that are generated by a computer program. Interactive Media involves Web and Internet like You Tube; Face-Book now employs to manage and to compete effectively in the global marketplace. One of the most successful interactive website is the You Tube, with an impressive list of public and private media clients. Their services include brand development, web design and usability, interactive marketing, and news management. Meeting the expectations of clients is essential and central to all these interactive media companies. When looking at the You Tube website it is not immediately apparent where the company is based, however it’s the number one place for interactive marketing technology as well as creative and media technology. These Media companies have developed direct relationships with some local Colleges and Universities to take students on work placements, and a new starter with good pay. They look for bright, self-motivated interactive media students who are creative and innovative. You Tube makes sure that it stays at the forefront of new technology - for example, the company pioneered the use of flash technology...
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...The internet can be described as a network of data bases sharing information. Over time people learned that it can be used for communication and business development. In essence the internet made the world a smaller place. The development of the internet turned it into a valuable resource for business by affecting price standards. The internet has made business more economical for companies because of the easy entry. If a company wants to design a webpage there are already websites that walk you through the web page design process. Most importantly they are free. When people think of the internet, free comes to mind because of the availability of mass information at no cost. This has allowed businesses to cut costs or re-invest their cash flow in different projects. In e-business there is often a reduction in costs required to complete traditional business procedures (Leonard, 2006). Companies can cut costs by sending bills through an email rather than mailing out the paper bill. To finalize transactions customers don’t have to get in their cars and waste gas to drive to the business venue. They can just access the business web page, purchase away and have it delivered to them. In some cases customers have to pay for shipping but it becomes one less expense for the business. Because of this some companies are able to offer lower internet sales prices. Since the cost of the product is lower and the company may incur less to negligible selling expenses, they are able to offer...
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...I didn’t include too much information that caused difficulty viewing and navigating the site. I came to the conclusion that I could provide the needed information with seven pages including the home page. My sitemap example is attached separately under the title “Task #3 Sitemap” in PowerPoint format. Design Mock-Up My mock up pages needed to match with the sitemap I created in the previous step. In order to accomplish this I needed to create seven pages or menus on the website. I also needed to make sure that the headers, footers and menu bar were the same on each page to provide consistency on the site. The only thing that was to change on each page was the content. I used wix.com as the template for this process. The images of the page examples are included separately under the titles home page, about us, customer service and products page. Web Development and Maintenance Costs Providing a website is a very important step in expansion of a business. However, having a website does not mean that your company will be setting itself up for expansion and growth. Making sure the site is relevant to your business and appealing to the visitors is another component of a successful online business. Spending time and money at its creation will provide great return on your investment. Do your homework and see what characteristics other successful sites out there have and provide to their customers. Putting in effort, time and a little money here is well worth...
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...retailer with retail outlets and online shopping/shipping. a. Merging both in-store and online sales. In the event the web application is compromised anything from the inventory miscalculations to customer data being stolen could occur. 2. A small, private law firm’s website with forms for potential clients to complete, including name, address, contact number, and reason for scheduling an appointment. b. With including the reason for scheduling appointment, in the event of a web breach customers’ legal or other personal information could be leaked. 3. A real estate appraisal company that provides online appraisals for a publicly traded financial institution’s residential-loan applicants. The bank sends all applicant information to the appraisal company electronically. c. Again, information leaks could be a business threat. Since the company is publically traded, someone could gain insider-trading information on their stock through their financial records. 4. A Web-hosting company that provides leased servers for websites of clients ranging from small firms to large online retailers. d. Loss of intellectual property. Someone could read when popular or valuable websites’ hosting expires, then squat on it hoping to scoop up the domain/hosting then sell it back to the owner at a profit. 5. A city government that allows people with parking tickets to pay the fines online using a credit card or online check. e. Financial fraud or identity...
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