Friday, November 21, 2008

Final Project - Wireframes















My project will consist of several phases and I took me a while to decide which parts I want to focus on first, but at the end I chose to work on those that I struggled the most with in class. This is the general overview of the entire project:

1. A re-design of a public website for the non-profit hawaiian organization. The foundation's goals and main activities have changed and evolved over the last couple of years and its founder wants the website to better promote and inform about offered services. The current site serves only static pages and does not have a private area or an online store. The re-designed public section of the website will consist of static, informational pages and database-driven pages (a gallery and an online store). From a visual perspective he asked the site to include hawaiian traditional elements and also to have a simplicity and an elegance of zen designs. He is also very big on an intuitive and simple navigation (a lot of small, related sections will be integrated into bigger sections).

2. A private area accessible to members only. The registration eligibility will be checked and approved by the foundation's administrator. The login credentials will be revoked when the membership ends.
The private section will consist of:
- announcements.
- calendar.
- image gallery (with an ability to upload pictures). The image upload functionality is for the final class project. I am not sure if it will be used on the real website.
- message board.
- scheduling interface for selected members that gives them an ability to check and reserve space for hawaiian bodywork.

3. A content management system with a separate login that is accessible to the foundation's administrators only.


In order to simplify things I've decided to divide the project into 4 phases:

The final project for class, which will become Phase I, includes the following:
- home page (public) that gives the general info about the foundation, its history, its goals and its founder.
- registration and login page to get access to the private area
- home page for members (announcements, calendar, gallery) which links to
- image upload page.

Phase II will focuse on completing the public website and creating an online store.

Phase III will be all about creating a message board and a scheduling interface.

In Phase IV CMS is completed.

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