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Proposal
This is just the basic information needed in order
to prepare a decent proposal.
What is the Purpose of the site?
Basic types of website purposes:
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Personal: with biographic data, "vanity
pages"
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Promotional: to sell a product or service.
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Current: up-to-date info (newspapers' sites).
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Informational: to share info on a particular
topic.
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Persuasive: Propaganda to convert a point of
view.
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Instructional: to teach a unit or course of
study.
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Registrational: to simplify communication with
and register users for courses, information, and/or products,
accumulate a database of, and simplify communication with, registrants.
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Entertainment!
Brand new site or revamp
an old one?
Textual Content
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Quantity of textual content
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Quality of textual content
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Do they have a wordsmith?
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Convert from print?
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Scattered notes? Not even?
How many tables and charts and
in what form? Word, Excel, etc?
Graphical Content
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Quantity of graphical content to be provided
by client.
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Quality of graphical content to be provided
digitally?
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Convert to web safe format?
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Crunch?
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Thumbnail?
Meatspace images?<analog data to convert into
digital>
- Photo’s
- Magazine images?
- Technical Drawings?
Quantity of graphical content to be created by developer.
Is logo design work necessary?
Functions
- Number of pages with functions <think forms>
- Does it need a database?
- Integrate with existing?
- Complexity of database
- Complexity of interactions
Graphically rich site?
- Flash animation?, gif animations? Audio? Video?
What's the deadline?
Once this information has been gathered, a Proposal is possible. Whats
the next step?
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