BA271 Week 4 Lecture

Goals for today… Overview steps in entire website project

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

interface design

What is the BSG? Mark Clements Senior Systems Development

Engineer Business Solutions Group, OSU

Highly recommended:

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 websites people will visit

Overall idea: Should be creative … thus, your website should look original.

Good design vs. bad design Sample 1: Samba Communications Sample 2: A local band

Sample websites from a prior last term

Today’s work sample Write a believable five-year plan

for how you will add value to the collective storehouse of knowledge contained on-line.

Put your name prominently at the top of the card.