Wakefield Music Festival

Introduction

Scenario

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The town of Wakefield is hosting a weekend Music festival at Thornes park.

Your task is to design and create an informative website that will be used to promote the event. The public will be able to obtain information about the festival, including performing acts and times, activities and food and drink from the website.

You will design, create, test and evaluateyour website and will have approx. 6 weeks to complete

Requirements

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You will create a minimum three page website

○ Homepage○ Activities○ Food & Drink

● Each page will have a:○ Title○ Navigation bar○ Banner○ Detailed information○ Consistent use of colour and layout○ Appropriate graphical elements on the pages.

■ The website should be:○ Easy and quick to use○ Increase user attention/confidence/familiarity.

Tasks

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Task 1: The project

plan

● Project

requirements:

● Task list

● Gantt chart

● Mood

boards/mindmaps.

● Project constraints

and potential risks

that could affect the

project.

● A contingency plan.

Task 2: Initial

design

● Design of each

screen

● Annotations that

describe:

● How each screen

meets user

requirements and

accessibility

needs

Task 3: Test Plan

● Minimum of 15

tests.

Task 4: Create your website

● Follow your plan and create the

website.

● Obtain feedback from potential

users (Record of user feedback.)

● use the feedback to refine the user

interface

● Document the changes

● Annotated screen prints of

changes made

Task 5: Evaluation

● Strengths

● Weaknesses

● Improvements

Wakefield Music Festival

Task 1

Task 1 Time allocated

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You will have 4 lessons to complete Task 1 You will have 2 pieces of homework and any work that you fall behind on must be completed in your own time.

Task 1a

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The project plan

Create a project plan making full and effective use of project planning techniques.

Your project plan should include detailed:

a. Project requirements:● the purpose of the website● What is the theme? Who is the intended audience for the website?● the audience requirements and user accessibility requirements.

Complete this in report format using the above heading

Task 1b - Homework

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Task list

List everything that needs doing to create your website. You will need this to create the Gantt chart.

Complete this using any format you like.

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BRAIN in GEAR

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1. How many main colours should a user interface have

(maximum)?

2. Which type of font should you use on your user interface?

Serif or Sans Serif.

3. Which of the following will help people specifically with

motor needs?

Having large buttons

Having larger text

4. Having too many colours on screen can …

BRAIN in GEAR

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1. 4

2. Sans Serif

3. Having large buttons

4. Make the user interface hard to focus on and read

Task 1c

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Gantt chart

● timescales for task and sub-tasks with key milestones including review points with users and when resources will be needed.

Create this using spreadsheets, you can use a template

You will need Task 1b to complete this task.

Gantt Chart example

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Task 1d - Homework

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Mood boards/mindmaps.

Create a moodboard/mindmap around the music festival

Mood Boards are like a page from an art sketchbook. They are:

creative, vibrant, interesting and original.

You can create the moodboard/mindmap on paper or using an appropriate application.

Use a range of images, colour swatches, font types, layouts of webpages, buttons etc

Task 1e

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Project constraints and potential risks that could affect the project.

A contingency plan

Think of everything that could go wrong and think of a back up plan to overcome these

issues: 7 issues minimum

● Falling ill: Do extra work at home to ensure i complete all tasks on time and in accordance to the Timeplan

● Computer not working: Use a different computer making sure i regularly save the work.