Journal #4 - Project Proposal

Site title

San Dimas High School ASB

Developer 

Tracy Moore

Rational or focus

For years I have offered to help my sister, ASB Director at San Dimas High School, with her class website.  Sadly, the years have gone by and we have never gotten around to developing the site.  I have reviewed her current site content and, although it uses Google Pages, I feel that the presentation is confusing and unattractive.

The purpose of this site will be a redesign using WordPress.  I have chosen WordPress because this site will need to be maintained by a non-novice web user, and WordPress has a user-friendly admin page that is easily updated and managed.  With the redesign I will give structure to the current content and help to make the site a useable resource for the SDHS community.

Main features outline

The main features of the site will include:

• Google iframe calendar, 
• iframe photos via Flicker or Google Photos, 
• ASB Forms, 
• a listing of school clubs and organizations, 
• information on how to get involved, 
• ASB Director and other important contact information

Content

I am planning to give this site 7 pages.  I have researched similar ASB websites and the outline noted above will cover the majority of topics and subtopics needed.

Target audience

Typical audience for this site will be SDHS students, staff/teachers, and the San Dimas community.

Design considerations

Overall goals for the site are to produce something that is well organized and easy to maintain.

Limiting factors:

• Not sure at this point if the SDHS webservers can host a WordPress site.
• Not confident that SDHS will allow this application to be hosted on their webservers. 
• Updates will need to be facilitated by the ASB Director and an instructional overview of the new site will need to be scheduled to teach the Director about the new site
• Design will need to be responsive, and we haven’t touched much on that in class
• Would like scrolling image on homepage, but haven’t discussed this in class
• It’s been many years since I started a WordPress site from scratch and I will need to dust off the old brain cells to see if I can still remember how to do it.

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