The kind of website I wanted to make was an information wiki made by university students who can edit all subject areas and create new pages. But first what is my target audience? I'm looking at an audience with these characteristics and backgrounds.
- Either female or male
- Ages 18-25
- Able to read
- Highly educated Students
- Within a Tafe or University community
- Has a social life for looking for information to their area of study
- Able to access the internet
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Here is the blueprint of the website's pages and functions.
It is a hierarchy navigational system. The website has 5 main functions which are also pages; home page, the advanced searching, adding new content, contact information, and post page.
The home page is an introduction to the site with a description of how to use the site.
The Select by Area (Hierarchy) is an advanced search page that gives the user a couple of ways to narrow down their search preferences using hierarchy. It then posts results the user can view.
The Add New Content allows logged in users to enter new content to the site. It goes through a process of asking the user where the content is contented under, as well as letting them enter the content. The user can then view the content with a preview on the website. If they want to edit, it takes them back to the Add New Content. Otherwise, it publishes the content and sends the user to the post page.
The Contact Us is a web page that gives information of the developers and owners, as well as their content information to send an email if they have a question or report of a bug of the website.
The Search is not a page, but a search box that can be used on any webpage of the website, that uses the query entered and uses algorithms to narrow the searches down and displays them in a list.
Here are the wireframes for the website. Descriptions for the wireframes are found in the images themselves.
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| Home page |
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| Contact Us page |
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| Advanced Search page |
Here is the metadata matrix which will be used for components of the website:
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| Metadata Matrix |
A good post, Brenton. I have a few questions after reading the post. Is it really a good idea to have Advanced Search menu on the left and a search bar on the right? To me, I'd prefer to have the Advanced Search link underneath the search bar, so we can basically centralise the search function on one area of the menu.
ReplyDeleteThere's also no link back to the Home Page in the wireframe, so it may be tricky if I want to go back to the home page unless the only option is to refresh the original link.
Do you also have the wireframes for the Add New Content pages as well? I'm interested to see how it layouts.
Overall, it's a very good idea to have something like this.
Actually now that you mention it, I can't believe I missed that bit. Advanced Search would be better under the search box.
DeleteAlso there is a link to the home page, but it's the website banner image. Most websites like "Facebook" do this, so I thought I'd implement it in too.
Finally the wireframes blog only wanted a content page, search page, and home page. So I gave the pages that employed main content, search content, and the home page itself.