Determine the top three expectations your client has for


Assignment - Group Web site project

You are a member of a design team at BlueFish Media Design, a premier web design and multimedia design firm in the Chicago area. Recently, several local firms have approached BlueFish with requests for websites.

The new clients are:

  • Le Expensziv -- a new gourmet French restaurant offering wonderfully delicious food and extravagant prices
  • A Dog's Life -- a company that offers dog grooming, training, day care, and vacation boarding services to the greater Chicago area
  • Coffee Cafe -- a locally owned coffee bar similar to Starbucks located in the Chicago Bucktown neighbourhood
  • Baby Time -- a small, upscale shop in Deer Park Mall specializing in clothes, toys, and accessories for infants and toddlers
  • Kirk, Picard, & Janeway -- a new accounting firm just formed by three recent accounting major graduates with CPAs, specializing in small business and tax accounting

The Task:

Web Design Director, Maria Riaz, has decided to allow your team to choose the client you would like to work with. Your task is to analyze the competition and propose a page layout design appropriate for your client's business and target audience. There are four deliverables: Analysis Report, Design Report, Sample Page Layout, and the published website.

Choose Your Client

Your first step is to discuss the clients listed above with your team and choose your client.

Analysis

Your team will need to do some investigation and background analysis. Feel free to contact your instructor (he or she will forward your questions to Maria at BlueFish Media Design) with your questions about your client and their business.

1. Determine the top three expectations your client has for the website.

2. Determine the target audience.

3. Locate three potential competitors (or similar websites).

4. Use the Web Design Best Practices Checklist to analyze the competition. For each competitor, note two strengths and two weaknesses.

5. The Analysis Report. Submit a written description of your results for the four analysis steps above.

Design

Your team needs to design a sample page layout and create a presentation to propose to the client. Feel free to contact your instructor (he or she will forward your questions to Maria at BlueFish Media Design) with your questions about your client and their business.

1. Choose color scheme. Justify your selection.

2. Choose page layout type: jello, liquid, or ice. Justify your selection.

3. Choose font face, weight, and size for headings, subheadings, main content, footer, etc. Justify your selection.

4. The Sample Page Layout. Use any of the following applications to create a Sample Page Layout: Adobe Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or Adobe Photoshop. Create your own content, including logo banner. Upload your Sample Page Layout to the Web.

5. Share Your Design. Show your Sample Page Layout and a Design Report describing the design to your instructor in class.

Develop

Using the sample page layout as a template and create a website for your chosen client. The website should include a homepage, and at least six (6) content pages.

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