Community Website Assignment

Wilmington Home Center

  1. Meet with client and get the content for the site. This includes the text, images and organizational details (ask for text and images digitally, on a CD or e-mailed to you).

  2. Either during your meeting with your client, or on your own, create a “site plan”. This is a visual layout of the site, what the navigation will look like and all the pages you will include. I expect a minimum of 4 pages.
    lay out

  3. Decide upon a color and design scheme. You will want the site to have a “branding” that identifies it throughout. You can do this by using similar colors, fonts, headings and text sizes throughout the site. Sometimes this is called a “style sheet”.

  4. Design the logo (symbol for the organization if they need one) and/or banners and submit to client (show me first).

  5. Create the rough draft of the site. In other words you will make blank pages for the pages you’ve decided upon in your site and do the navigation bar linking them all. This allows you to see if it all works. Work within TABLES at all times! Do any color items like backgrounds, table colors, and headings on the rough draft. Remember good design tips: good contrast between text and background, professional looking (which may mean plain to you - no background images), correctly sized photos and graphics, no typos or grammar errors.

  6. Meet with client and get input on your rough draft.

  7. Begin adding content. Remember to be consistent throughout with font style, size and color so ALL the headings are the same font, size and color, ALL the body text is the same font, size and color, and ALL the captions are the same font, size and color.

  8. Meet with your client and show them the site in progress. Get input from them on what you’ve done to date. Get changes in writing! You may invite the client to come to class to meet with you.

  9. Continue working on the site until you feel it is finished. Have it “user tested” by MANY people, from MANY machines (different platforms of machine, different browsers) so you can get feedback IN WRITING on how it looks from a variety of platforms and browsers.

  10. Submit finished site, with client approval by June 15.