BA271 Week 4 LectureGoals for today… Overview steps in entire website project

(basic website, peer review, final website)Discuss web page design – and user

interface design

SIM Club Elections Students in Information Management

(SIM) Club Tomorrow, Tuesday @ 6:00 p.m. Bexell 207 … dinner (probably pizza)

Website Project Requirements

At least 750 original words. Goals page: Needs to explain the website’s intend

audience and effect Sources page: An annotated bibliography to

explain what you did versus what you copied from elsewhere

Photos page: Must have at least one image that you transferred to a digital format yourself.

Feedback form: Must collect data relevant to your website.

Basic vs. Final Website Basic website:

Good first draft effort Must be published at proper network locations

(and therefore the proper web address) Will be used as the basis for a peer review activity

Publishing your website Development location:

\\cob-storage\studentpdata\userid\classwork\ba271\website Published location:

\\cob-storage\studentwebdata\userid\website Also will be available at: http://students.bus.oregonstate.edu/userid/website

ONID website location (optional): Publish by logging into ONID and using

ftp://ftp.onid.orst.edu/public_html/ Which makes files available at http://oregonstate.edu/~userid

Peer Review Each student will look

at three other websites and evaluate their quality.

You will prepare a series of PowerPoint slide and three on-screen videos discussing your conclusions …

Website Peer Reviews

By Dave Sullivan

Final Website Final website:

Hopefully will benefit from the ideas that come from your peer review

Should contain your best, finished ideas Will be graded subjectively by your instructor

based on writing quality, content, style, and creativity.

Ideas about feedback forms Your website must include a feedback form

that will send you an email message You will start with these feedback form

instructions You should build a form that makes good

sense for your website’s purpose

Thinking about borders Nearly all websites use a logo or graphic in a

top shared border Some sample websites

www.sullishak.com www.allen-house.com www.buy.com

Creating an interactive website of value

Information-only website are dull because they “talk at” you.

Think through what you would like to know about the people who visit your website.

You do not need to complete the site to take full advantage of what visitors tell you – build a prototype.

A sampleon-line form

A sampleon-line form

A sampleon-line form

A sampleon-line form

Today’s work sample Put your name prominently at the top of the

card. Draw a sample page with a border, logo, and

menu bar. In the body of the page, include an on-line form useful for collecting information from visitors.