Project Part 1

Due: Friday 3 October.

For this part of the project, you are to choose a project and then meet with your client and produce a purpose statement, a goals chart, and a planning chart. Your planning chart must include the goals and objectives for the web site, the structure that will reflect those goals, and the functions that correspond to those goals and objectives.

You must meet with your client at least once. You are responsible for arranging this meeting.

Documents. For this part of the project you must produce a purpose statement and a planning chart.

• You must have a cover sheet on your document that lists the project name, your names, and the name of the client. There should also be a space for the client to sign inidicating that they agree with the document. The client must sign the document indicating that she/he agrees with the content of the document. Part of this document must be the description (or something similar) given below that describes how the web site will be delivered to the client. Note that you must give the client a CD containing the complete web site at the end of the semester. You are responsible for gaining access to a CD-burner to create this CD.


• You must have a page that contains two paragraphs. The first will identify the audience, the second will provide the goals and objectives of the site.



1. The page that identifies the audience must also contain the 9 questions (and, of course, your answers to them) from the Web Design slides (slide 14). I've given the questions below:
2. Who are they?
3. Why are they at the site?
4. How did they get there?
5. How old are they? What's the range of their ages?
6. Where do they live?
7. What gender are they? Mostly men/women? why?
8. How wealthy are they compared to the rest of the population?
9. What's their history of dealing with your organization? What have they done before at your web site?
10. Are there any common characteristics that stand out?

• Next provide a goals chart on a separate page. This will be a chart with two columns, the first giving the goal/objective catagories listed below and the second column listing the corresponding goals/objectives of your client.

Your goals chart must include the 6 areas discussed in class (given below). Each area may have multiple goals.

1. Goals of the organization.
2. Goals of the user.
3. Objectives for display.
4. Objectives for interactivity.
5. Objectives for communication.
6. Objectives for technology.

Note that you must have interactivity goals. For example, you could provide an on-line mechanism to automatically update web pages. Users would fill out a form and your cgi program would automatically update a web page.

• Finally, provide, on a separate sheet, the planning chart. The exact format of this chart is somewhat flexible, but you must have some form of chart with columns and rows similar to the planning chart given in the Web Design slides. In particular, you need to have:
1. a column that lists the purposes (or goals) of the organization,
2. a column that lists the structure (this column basically gives the top level page of the set of pages that will implment that goal/objective)
3. and column that gives the function (the how) that describes in a general way what the user will be able to do on that page/s.
• As part of the initial agreement, you must have your client read and sign something similar to the following:

This document describes the nature of the web site that you can expect from the students in COMP 205 (advanced web programming). The web site will be developed over the course of the fall 2008 semester and will be delivered "as is" at the end of the semester, ie, with no guarantee of functionality. Your project will primarily be an educational experience for the students involved. Students will be graded on how completely they meet your specifications.

You must be available for consultation at least bi-weekly on the Ithaca College campus throughout the fall semester of 2008 (October 1 through December 12). You and the students working on your project must set up a mutually convenient bi-weekly meeting time.

All projects will be delivered by 12 December 2003. There will be no development, training, or consultation with the developers after that date. All web pages will be delivered "as is", ie, there is no guarantee of functionality. Students will deliver the web site on a CD ROM which you can use to upload the web pages to your web server. If you have an account on www.ithaca.edu at the beginning of the term you may ask students to upload pages to your account, though this will not be part of their grade.

You, as a client, must gain access to a web server and post the project onto your web server. This project will not supply access to a web server and will not set up a web server or web account for you. For example, people working at Ithaca College should already have an account on www.ithaca.edu. Ithaca College organizations should contact Information Technology Services (ITS, http://www.ithaca.edu/computing/fs_index.htm ) to set up an account on www.ithaca.edu.

Last updated on 09 Nov 2008 by John Barr