HTML, CSS and Fireworks

HTML I have used HTML within my website as it is the easiest to use and the best way of getting exactly what you want. HTML also works on all web browsers so it is the best way of hitting the widest audience available.HTML itself stands for hyper text markup language and is the basic language for nearly all webpages on the internet. It works in the way of making everything as simple as it can be, e.g. < p > and < /p > is the code used to create a paragraph. Within... Read more

Evaluation

Here i will be evaluating the entire project and how well the website itself has come out.PositivesThe most positive aspect of our project is that we managed to complete everything on time and to what i believe the best of our ability.The website itself meets all W3C compliance regulations and is very easily visible on nearly all formats. We tested the website on computer, tablet pc and on a mobile device and on all formats the website was still very easily viewed and the layout... Read more

Production of Website Begun

Today we officially started our website and began implementing the designs we have thoroughly discussed within our group. It has taken us a long time to come to an overall agreement of what the website is going to look like and the tool and techniques we will be using to make our website stand out above our competitors.Although it has taken us a while to finally have all our ideas as one, i believe it has been worth while as we needed to get our designs 100% correct and able... Read more

Amendments of Project Plan

This is out project plan with the amendments that we have made to ensure our project will run as smooth and on time as we can get it.

Design Deadline Met

Today we compared all our completed designs and thoroughly evaluated them to give us an outcome of the most suitable for our website.When comparing our timescales to our project plan it is clear to see that we have over ran ourAll the different pages were... Read more

Team Meeting Minutes

Review of previous meeting1-5:We have altered the design from the previous meeting toMeet the requirements needed and to make sure that we allAgree with it.Check milestones5-15:Up to this point we have allocated extra responsibilities andTo change our project plan as the dates and allocated timeWere severely underestimated so the project plan needs to beAmended.See where we are against project plan15-20:From checking are milestones we realised that the projectPlan was inaccurate... Read more

Team Meeting

This is the agenda for the team meeting we arranged after creating our project plan.
We seperated each individual task we had to dicuss within each member of the group, and discussed each of them thoroughly until a decision was made.

Project Plan

I have designed and built a project plan using Microsoft Project.There appears to be a few problems with this original project plan which we have encountered when completing the project. We will have a team meeting in which the minutes from this meeting will... Read more

Image Types

The number of of different image formats are countless using a computer system. The most common image types within your computer are .BMP (Bitmap Image), .JPEG and JPG.Different software tools use different image types and it is all dependant on what software is used as to what type of image is created.All the different image formats are used for different things and have their own individual advantages and disadvantages.When using a computer to print photo quality images, these... Read more

Creating a Logo

Today i created my logo for the website. Everyone in our team is creating a logo so we can compare them and decide which logo would be best for our website.I thought the best tool for me to create a logo would be on Fireworks as it seems to be the easiest when creating images from scratch.I downloaded a template shape of a logo from the templates folder within the software but deleted all specific detail and was left with just the plain shape.I then added my own details to the... Read more

Researching our Competitors

Today we decided as our team to spend an entire session researching other websites and looking at the specific tools and techniques our competitors are using in order to gain an advantage in their field.
We found that alot of the websites had very large advertising banners for their own products and massively showed off its promotional stock and its top sellers.

Tool and Techniques

To complete this project and complete the design of my webpage i will be looking at using a wireframing tool. In this paragraph i will compare two wireframing tools that i see to fit to purpose to the design of my specific website. The two i have decided to compare is 'Gliffy' and 'mxgraph.com'.I have found mxgraph to be very easy to navigate around and finding specific tools that i will need is a very easy job. Gliffy on the other hand when first looked at, is very complicated... Read more

Introduction

I am designing and building a website for the retail of Lazy Boy recliner Sofa's. We are aiming to lead the market in the retail of these products and are building the website to a very high specification. There are three people in out group me Nick Watkins, Thomas Strange and Michael Perreira. We will be splitting the tasks between us three and the tasks allocated will be dependant on each individuals skills.

Website Specification

Purpose of the WebsiteWe our building an e-commerce website based on the retail of specific ‘lazy-boy’ products. We will be selling a large range of lazy-boy chairs and sofas which will be sold within our website. We will also be selling a wide range of accessories and add-ons for customers that may already have a lazy-boy chair/sofa and want to add gadgets to make their experience even more enjoyable. We aim to make our website as easy to use and as easy to navigate around as... Read more