Audience Definition
The main audience who will be using this site will be:
- Pasts Students
- Current Students
- Prospective Students
- General Audience
The reason to consider all this audiences is because all of them will have different needs from the site. The Current Students will be accessing the website on daily basis. They will need all the contents mentioned on the site very frequently. Prospective students might visit the website sometimes.
Different Scenarios
Both Present and Prospective Students accessing the site and getting information about the course (4004-736) or some other information regarding that course.
Web Designers can be one of the users who may be visiting the website as they might get information on how to build a site for a course that is being taught in educational institution.
Scenario 1
Jack, a student at RIT enrolled for the course 4004-733 class wants to take a tutorial on CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and some other related tutorials. He opens up the course's main page. There is a menu at the top of every page where different sections like course outline, links, and tutorials are listed in the menu. He then clicks on the tutorial menu item and browses through different links that direct him to websites dedicated to different tutorials he is looking for.
Scenario 2
Sarah, another student at RIT is taking 4004-734 class and is working on a project that requires PHP. She remembers code samples on the course website that shows how to program code in PHP. She finds the main course page, and then navigates to the code examples section. She finds the section about PHP and clicks on the examples. She reads the samples and tries to complete her project from the information that she got from the examples section.
Competitive Analysis
It is evaluating each competitor or browsing your rival's website in order to be aware of what other sites have stored in their websites. some of the things to be considered while evaluating other websites are.
- Download Time
- Page Size
- Color
- Layout
- Look and Feel
- Content
- Oraganisation
The competitive analysis takes a look at the websites of three different professors from the School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at RIT. Following are the some website analysis for these websites.
This site appears provides good homepage which makes the user to navigate the website further. The color scheme is good. The menu bar provides the required information. The layout scheme looks good. The site uses HTML and JavaScript to have a good looking web design.
This website provides good homepage which makes the user more interested in navigating the site further. Graphics have been used to make the site look more attractive and they match the color scheme used. Also the navigation is quite simple. In the navigation it also provides the name of the page you want to visit. So, basically HTML and JavaScript have been used to provide a good look to the site.
This site is well designed with good layout and navigation bar. Also the information has been organized properly with links for different sections for each tutorial in the navigation. The color scheme seems to be matching with the design of the website. The site utilizes web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 as well. Overall website looks good and efficient.
| Site Features | Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site Design | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Site Layout | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| Site Navigation | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Color Selection | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| Overall Look | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Download Time | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Content Oraganization | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Audience | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Image Graphics | 7 | 9 | 7 |
