Part One: Document requirements for a website
Choose a company to build a website for. The company must already exist however cannot have an existing website on the World Wide Web. Neither the size nor industry type matters. Answer the following (7) questions for the website:
1. LIST GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL / PURCHASER
General information is
elementary introduction
for a specification and it provides relevant information about:
• Which company is that (Company name)
• Company activities
• Number of employees
• Competition (link
for
competition websites)
2. What does the customer expect from the website?
Expectations from a website determine the way of its creating. This information can be useful for getting known with client’s wishes and where you should put
most focus.
Very useful information is when
client
delivers
link for
websites which are closely relative to his expectations of his future website with design and functionalities.
3. Which type of website is building requested?
Website types:
• Corporate company presentation
• Personal Page
• Online shop (E-commerce Websites)
• Web application
• Social network
• Portfolio
• Blog
• Website with specific functionalities
This information is very useful because it tells us which potentially CMS platform should be suitable or if it is for
custom solution. This data
tell
us what program language should be used and which framework.
4. What will be the website structure:
• What is the number of
webpage’s?
• Sitemap is very helpful
• How many different page type/layout (Homepage, About us, Portfolio/Gallery, Contact page)
• Is it single language or
multi language
website and what is the number of languages?
5. Will the website be static or dynamic?
• Who will do importing of the content on a website (purchaser or agency)?
• Does site
needs
a CMS system so
purchaser
can import content?
• How often do you plan changes on site and what elements would you change?
If
purchaser
wants presentation, which doesn’t require changes, then there is no need for creating CMS system or using some platform.