Web Site Design Framework
Designing for the web, design strategies, a life cycle process to support web development, user centred design, roles in web development.

Planning and Goalsetting
Defining scope and context, mission and goals, web site purpose definition and objective statement, define usability success measures, plan skills and resource requirements.

Site Analysis and Definition
Users, analysis of audience, information and technology, setting usability targets, external business events and Use Case scenarios, analysing web site requirements, standard templates.

Information Content Design
Understanding and defining web content to support use case requirements. Types of information, dividing information into categories to make it accessible, best practice in content design.

Web Site Specification
Structure and organisation, user conceptual model, classification, feedback. Web site navigation maps, site design.

Presentation and Style
Design for maximum visual impact, presentation options, presentation modes, writing web pages, web style guides. Home page design. Graphics, animation and multimedia. Performance issues.

Prototyping and Evaluation
Prototyping and test scripts, test cases from use cases, condition analysis, scenario driven testing and prototyping.

Benefits Realisation
Measure against purpose and goals, Implementation and launch, promotion and marketing, innovation and evaluation.

Web Technology Overview
Technical components of a web based solution. Technical issues concerning web based publishing, browsers and servers, linking to databases, web site development tools.