mis website design

Web Assignment #2 (50 Points)

Purpose:

Your home page should contain various features, characteristics, and suggestions, described below:

· The website you create will be for a company called BoarDome owned by brothers Will and John Smith. This company sells snowboards and surfboards. The Smith guys want to showcase their company and begin to sell their boards and related products online. This site is meant to showcase the products and sell them to a broader market outside of Ohio.

1. The website should be at least three pages in length. Remember quality is better than quantity.

· The first page, the index page, will have information about BoarDome. It will say welcome and present a sale for a discount on all products especially the Boogie brand board which will be at 50% off for the month of December. There will be pictures of some of the products on this page.

2. The second page will be the About page will show pictures of the owners and will contain the following content (you can just copy and paste the text):

Having trained in Hawaii, we appreciate the artistic freedom we have here in the US. Creativity is embraced by a fervent core of consumers and we are happy to serve that audience with our experience in traditional methods, selection of choice, and the best processing that technology can offer us.  We relish the opportunity to please both ourselves and our audience with our awesome board creations.  We've invested more than our lives in this.

Will and John Smith Owners

If you have any questions or comments about our company, this website or our products, feel free to contact us.

3. The third page should be the products page with images of the products, company locations including pictures of the boards.

4. The following mandatory items must be included in your home page:

· 3 links - one to another site, one to a page within your site, and one of the links being an email link.

· Include at least 2 Images on your site (You can use the images provided or scan them in or import them in from another web site). You can link to the video at http://youtu.be/yo3M6EB8kmk if you would like.

· Include a consistent navigation on your pages

· Include a background image or color on your pages

· Make sure you include color(s) in your pages

· Include some type of table in your page(you may use it for your page layout or to display something)

· Make sure there are alt tags (text descriptions) on all images

· Make sure every page has a title in the title bar and keywords

· Make sure the logo is on every page and links back to the home page

Evaluation Criteria

Overall quality of your web site	12 Points
Logo/branding on every page	4 Points
3 different links – including 1 mail to link	3 Points
2 images	5 Points
Alt tags	3 Points
Background image or color	3 Points
Table	5 Points
Published on the Internet	5 Points
Title on pages (in browser window) and keywords	5 Points
Navigation consistency	5 Points
Total possible points	50 Points

5. Plan your time well – web page creation may be time consuming. I suggest you develop a small timeline so you know what to accomplish by certain dates.

6. Your home page should show good taste. Do not use profanity or display pictures/audio that are in poor taste. If I feel you have these characteristics in your home page, you will receive ZERO points for your effort.