Description

Dates

Notes

Status

Week One (13-17 Sept 2004)

Individual site assessment

14-15 Sept

Group meeting

16 Sept

(i) brainstorm project concept

(ii) prepare project proposal

(iii) identify skills, knowledge and potential roles of team members

(iv) prepare for meeting with AHCA such as preparation of questions, design suggestions, comparison of sites, questions to elicit clarification of goals, etc.

Week Two (20-24 Sept 2004)

Dreamweaver/HTML tutorial

Individual team members to complete tutorial before practical design work begins

Meeting with client

pending client’s response

To identify and clarify AHCA’s expectations regarding end result and direction for focus of project

Week Three (27 Sept-1 Oct 2004)

Meeting with client:

Austin History Center Association

• Sharmyn Lilly, Executive Director
• Russ Rhea, Director of Media Services

27 Sept

Clarification of AHCA’s expectations:

• Who is target audience/potential audience
• What distinction to emphasize between Austin History Center and the AHCA’s newly designed web site
• What should user accomplish through use of AHCA’s website – seeking resources? News on events, notices, calendar, current information? Potential sponsors/supporters of AHCA?
• What priorities for audience when visiting the site – what emphasis?
• Clarification regarding book purchasing – e-commerce required?
• How many levels for the web site, e.g. as a link to refer users to the AHC web site? As a resource on its own with the AHC just as a link?
• Clarification regarding users of the site i.e. current users of both web site and AHCA and other potential users

Preparation of new design sketches

27 Sept onwards

Team members to sketch web pages individually, compare notes and select the most suitable.

Week Four (4-8 Oct 2004)

Set up of working site

8 Oct

Set up of working site on ischool web space

Week Five (11-15 Oct 2004)

Group meeting

14 Oct

• Comparison of design sketches and selection of template
• Redistribution of site content
• Headings and labeling
• Development of site map– testing of site navigation and expected work flow
• Tasks at hand:
  -Jong Hun, Hye Young – to re-distribute home page content according to selected template
  -Curtis – to contact AHCA with updates and remind them to provide tagline (as they requested)
  -Helena – update project proposal and combine text as discussed in meeting
  

done
(10/22/04)

on-going

done (10/20/04)

Week Six (18-22 Oct 2004)

Jong Hun - Updating of project web site: scanning and uploading of sketches of templates, site maps, labels, etc.

Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information

done
(10/26/04)

Week Seven (26-29 Oct 2004)

Update of working web site

Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information

done

on-going

Week Eight (1-5 Nov 2004)

Group meeting

3 Nov

• Update of working web site
• Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information
• Collective hands-on redesign of new site on Dreamweaver
  

on-going
on-going

on-going

Week Nine (8-12 Nov 2004)

• Update of working web site
• Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information
• Collective hands-on redesign of new site on Dreamweaver

on-going
on-going

on-going

Week Ten (15-19 Nov 2004)

Group meeting

• Update of working web site
• Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information
• Collective hands-on redesign of new site on Dreamweaver

on-going
on-going

on-going

Week Eleven (22-28 Nov 2004)

Group meeting at PCL

27 Nov

• Update of working web site
• Curtis - ongoing liaison with AHCA for required information
• Collective hands-on redesign of new site on Dreamweaver
• Discussion and outline of content for presentation of web site
• Discussion on fine-tuning necessary for web site, necessary clean-up and standardization of pages
  

on-going
on-going

on-going

Week Twelve (29-30 Nov 2004)

Group meeting at IT Lab

29 Nov

• Clean-up and lightweight testing of web site links
• Collective hands-on work using Dreamweaver
• Fine tuning of presentation