A website plan

A website plan serves as a blueprint for developing a website. The plan identifies the purpose of the site, your audience, and the specific content and features that must be added to the site to accomplish the site’s objectives.

Complete the first sections of your Website Plan, using a Microsoft® Word document

• Topic

• Purpose

o Why do you need this site?

o Why do your visitors need this site? 

•Audience 

o Brief description of target audience

o General geographic location of audience

o Estimate number of people

o Estimate average age

o Familiarity with computers and Internet

o Key target audience insight – Most compelling thing you want the audience to think, learn or do as a result of visiting the site

Please be sure to cover these topics for your site completely. It is easy to consider that the world is your target audience but that is not true.

Part 2 (8 Points)

Create a homepage for your planned site that demonstrates effective application of design elements. Use only Adobe® Dreamweaver® or another HTML editor to create a basic web page based on the web plan you have developed. This page is the homepage of your website. Save your site homepage as index.html or default.html.

Home Page RequirPage has a title

Page uses at least 2 different headings

Page uses either a HR or a Fieldset

Page has at least 2 graphics

Page is appropriate to the target audience

Page has appropriate file name

Page is attractive and lacking in errors 

Does the page validate

Check your HTML code using the Markup Validation Service on the W3C® website, (www.w3.org) prior to submitting your web page(s). 

Submit all website files in a compressed folder. Links to websites is not acceptable submission