Portfolio of evidence
The aim of this unit is for learners to investigate website design and plan, design and create their own website in response to a brief. They will use their understanding of website design and apply practical skills to produce their own functional website or prototype for a website. They will test and evaluate the website against the client brief.
Understand website design fundamentals.
Types of Websites; (e.g. information based, entertainment, advertising, promotional, educational, commercial, target audience, retail, operating online, the ways that organisations do business, transactional data eg cookies/tracking, targeted marketing and personalisation techniques, google analytics, payment systems, security issues, legislation).
Website features: Website 2.0 technologies, product or service based, target audience, requirements, uploading to web server.
Website Design: Usability, white space, page layout, spacing, navigation, alignment, accessibility, multimedia, search engine optimisation, performance (different browsers, bandwidth, hits, upload and download speeds, interactivity).
Platforms; (e.g. desktop, mobile phone, tablet, interactive TV.
Describe different types of websites and their key features.
Explain how and why different features are used in the design of a website.
Be able to produce a design proposal for a website to meet client brief.
Design Specification: (e.g. mind maps, layout of the pages (buttons, navigation) site structure / navigation structure, different types of links between the pages, design layouts, technical requirements, human resources, text, colours, backgrounds, physical resources, schedules, creating / acquiring assets, target platform, screen layout and navigation, validation, multimedia features).
Resources: Client side scripting, create/edit assets for the website (eg graphics, animation, audio, video), HTML, HTML 5, tables, forms, navigation menus or hyperlinks, hot spots, buttons, rollover images, templates and colour schemes.
Usability; (e.g. aesthetics, display, testing, different of browsers).
Accessibility; (e.g. navigation, interactivity, language, display, alt text, audio commentary, instructions).
Produce a design proposal to meet the client’s brief for a website including:
Be able to create a website to meet an agreed design proposal for a website.
Create website: Software, HTML, Client side scripting, create/edit assets for the website (eg graphics, animation, audio, video), HTML 5, tables, forms, navigation menus or hyperlinks, hot spots, buttons, rollover images, templates and colour schemes, browser features, alt tags,
Cascading Style Sheets: Background colour, background images, text formatting, borders, padding, heading styles, element, position
Java script, rollovers, embedding scripts into web pages, compatibility.
Optimisation.
Create website of at least five pages in line with design proposal.
Develop style sheets in line with the design proposal.
Be able to test the website against the client brief.
Produce a test plan/table and test the website: Test functionality, usability, accessibility, user interaction, completeness, accuracy, design specification, user experience, user testing.
Use a test plan to test functionality of the web pages.
Collect and analyse feedback from user testing of the website.