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Web Site Design Plan Checklist

This checklist guides you through the essential steps to create an effective and user-friendly website. From defining the site's purpose to specifying the navigation system, cover all the important aspects of web design.

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Web Site Design Plan Checklist

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  1. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Web Site Design Plan Checklist Web Design, term here (i.e. FALL 2009) Present by: De'Marcus Johnson X00143334

  2. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 1: Define the site's purpose • Identify the primary and secondary goals for your Web site. • Determine the objectives nessary to meet the site's goals. • Write a formal purpose statement for the site.

  3. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 2: Identify the Site's Target Audience • Develop a target audience profile that identifies the demographic and psychographic characteristics of audience memebers. • Perfrom a needs assessment to determine the target audiences' wants, needs, and expectations that can be satisfied by your site.

  4. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 3: Determine the Site's General Content • Determine your site's pages: home, underlying, and splash or entry pages. • Ensure that the content on your site's home page anwsers vistors' who, what, and where questions. • Determine the visual identity content to be added to all pages that will brand your site. • Determine the value-added content for your pages: text, images, audio, video, animation, multimedia, and dynamically generated content. • Plan a file folder organization for you HTML and content files.

  5. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 4: Select the Site's Structure • Consider the best way to structure your site to achieve its purpose: linear/tutorial, random, hierachical, or some cobination of structures. • Create an outline of your site'structure: text outline, storyboard, or flowchart.

  6. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 5: Design the Look and Feel of the site • Position visual identity and vital page content above and to the left of potential scoll lines. • Maintain visual consistency across pages with a color scheme and page layout. • Follow WAI accessbility guidelines for the use of color.

  7. De'Marcus Johnson X00143334 #12 Step 6: Specify the Site's Navigation System • Create and navigation system that is both user based and user controlled, offering a combination of text links; image links; navigation menus, bars, and tabs; a breadcrumb trail; a site map; and a search feature. • Maintain visual consistency with the color and page placement of navigation elements. • Perform usablitity testing on the navigation system during the planning and development phases. • Follow WAI accessibility guidelines for links and image maps.

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