Executive Summary
“Manchester United Fan club” represents fans of Manchester United Football Club. In order to support the adoring efforts of its fans, “Manchester United Fan club” website is designed .The basic purpose of the website is to provide the informational and promotional content. The promotional content includes information about various types of promotional items like T-Shirts, Posters etc. The information content includes information about recent events, any News related to Manchester United Football Club, Team Players names along with their career record. Besides basic purpose the website it also provides videos of great moments. The website also provides the users with facility to become fan club member by signing up online. It also provides contact us information. Besides informational and promotional content the website also provides “Site Map” which provides user to quickly find out website content.
Site Design and Methodology
Design Rationale
To design the website first of all the targeted audience should be identified. Secondly the purpose and main objective of website is needed to be identified. Based on answers of these questions, a suitable design for website can be designed.
For Manchester united fan club website the answer to the above questions is
Since the website which is required to be produced is very limited in size due to specified no. of WebPages, a simple and easy to navigate design will be much better.
Final Design choices
To design the website layout, design choices (in appendices) were considered. Since the website required to be produced is very small in size with respect to content it was decided to keep the navigation as simple as possible. A simple designed was produced and finalized by extracting features from considered design choices.
Site map
The following site map describes the detailed structure of Manchester United Fan Club Website.
· Home Manchester United Fan Club
· Join us Join Manchester United Fan Club
· All items Exciting items from Manchester united
· The news box Latest news about Manchester united
· Videos Videos of Manchester united
· Team info Manchester united squad details
· Contact us Manchester United Fan Club Contact Information
oReference to mock-ups with mock-ups in appendices, and details of site structure.
CSS Style Sheets
The following link tag is used to link the cascading style sheet to the web pages.
<link href="YourStyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Accessibility choices and a summary of validation results (with printout in appendices).
Development Tools
Graphical User Interface (GUI) is designed in Adobe Photoshop and web pages are designed using Asp.Net.
Strategies for update and maintenance
Critical Analysis of Project
The website is simple and almost static in nature and provides quick access to all information it contains. But the current design is not suitable when content is increased and dynamic functionality is introduced.
The website is static in nature except only User sign up and login portion is dynamic. The update of website functionality can be improved by integrating the updatable content with database and providing an administration interface (set of web pages) to update the content through it. For example, to update the new promotional item an administration web page can be provided through which user can add new image along with its description. By doing so the webmaster won't require to modify code directly. Instead he can make updates through administration interface which can make the site updated more easily and removes any chances of error induction in code.
Similarly the navigation menu can be introduced which can dynamically updated through administration interface when new pages are added or removed. Although through master page its easy to add new page, but the current design includes tab type menus which are difficult to update.
Appendix
Design choices
· http://www.manutdnsw.com/
· http://www.manutdusa.org/
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Available at:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3180396542_05a1004238.jpg
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* featured-item2.png , [Electronic Print]
Available at:
http://manutd.diyanazman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/unitedvsarsenalfa.jpg
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* Manchester_United_home_jersey.jpg , [Electronic Print]
Available at:
http://www.manchesterunitedjerseys.com
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* Nike_manchester_united_08-09_away.jpg , [Electronic Print]
Available at:
http://www.manchesterunitedjerseys.com
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* SP0641-MAN-UTD-players-2010.jpg , [Electronic Print]
Available at:
http://www.gbposters.com/related/manchester+unite
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http://www.manutdusa.org/
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