Unit21: Web production |
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2009-10 |
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Client's briefThe Canine & Feline Behaviour Association is an organisation that represents Britain's leading practitioners in the field of helping pet owners to recognise problems in their dogs' or cats' behaviour and to resolve them and enhance both the family and pet environment. Their members also advise the media, press, government and commercial interests on good practice, proposed legislative changes. In a recent extension to their activities, the CFBA have developed a range of courses, including a degree programme accredited by Middlesex University, delivered through a combination of distance learning and practical workshops by tutors appointed by CFBA. Their existing web site can be viewed at http://www.cfba.co.uk. This site has eight main areas accessed from the links on the home page and a DVD link to an external site. The Members, CFBA Team and Articles pages also have many further links to pages about individual people or articles. (It is known that there are several text and design errors and some links that don't work at the time of writing.) Your task is to create: • a new home page • nine first level pages for the existing links on the home page • sample pages for an individual member's page and for an article page Each page should contain the text, links and images as the content pages provided here. You may use different sizes or styles of font for the text, headings, subheadings etc. but not change the content other than to correct errors. You should retain other images on the existing site which you consider vital to presentation of page content but may omit any that are purely illustrative or add new alternative images where you consider them appropriate. You may crop existing images but not change their proportions without the agreement of your tutor and the CFBA logo must be predominantly retained. An alternative to the oval logo can be accessed at http://ahi2000.com/xcfba/ or you can recreate this provided that the same colours are used and the cat and dog features remain identifiable. The Association's corporate image uses the shades of blue featured across the current site and its background. Whilst you may use different colours in your design, the corporate colours need to be incorporated, if only in the logo, which must appear on every page, so care is necessary in selections of alternatives. Because this site is administered and updated by a member of staff at CFBA's offices who has minimal understanding of web pages and programmes like Dreamweaver, it is essential that your page content can be edited reasonably simply in Dreamweaver (MX version) or, where you wish to provide an alternative method, utilising a procedure that should be intuitive and necessitate minimal training or special software installation locally. Each page except the home page should include a date and time of the most recent changes that is included automatically. This information should be placed in a location that does not interfere with the main content. You should design pages that will not scroll horizontally on a monitor at 800 x 600 resolution and which appear consistently across IE7 and later, Firefox3+, Safari and Opera (current versions). Minor variations may be acceptable - you should discuss any queries in this respect with your tutor. Vertical scrolling may be inevitable on many pages but you should aim to have none on a monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 in Internet Explorer 8 with a typical user's display of toolbars. One page features a form whereby interested parties can request information and submit contact details. For the purposes of this assignment it will be acceptable to feature a non-functioning form but you should ensure that the areas that users would type in are clear and correctly labelled. There are also links on some pages to e-mail various CFBA people. In your design these should all be amended to show the e-mail address itself and the person's name where appropriate and they should not be links that would attempt to open a user's default e-mail programme. Any image utilised that is either not your original artwork, obtained from the existing sites referred to in this brief must have its source acknowledged. This acknowledgement may be either as an unobtrusive note adjacent to the image, included in a mouseover text or on an additional page accessible from a link on or near the image. Any coding utilised that is neither standard nor of your own construction should have its source acknowledged within the coding for the page (but not visible as page content other than an additional page such as one you may use for acknowledgements or design information). NoteThe organisation referred to in this assignment exists and the individuals referred to on current site pages are real. It is important, therefore, that no changes are made to any page content or existing images other than those agreed with the client and that should any new images be included these do not in any way affect adversely the perception of the organisation by the public. |
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