Blog 3

This week’s blog is about designing a website base on online selling textbook for student

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience for my website are: student from different universities across Australia and also for those who have passed their degree
For student and Teachers
Online sharing book– these will be interactive online selling second hand textbook.Student who finish the subject and no longer need textbook he or she can sell it to another student

Sitemap:

The homepage of this website contains all the information that users should know. It has navigation bars at the top of the page. It has also categories navigation which display on every web pages of this website. The navigation bars themselves are My Account (this is where the customer’s account is stored), My Cart (contains all the items that the user has added or planned to buy), categories  (on left on the page: contain all categories of book), Login (this page is for users who are registered customers and are willing to log in) and sign up (this is the page where users or guests who visit the website are keen to register or sign up as new customers in order to buy or shop online.This site will support the hierarchical browsing method and use a contextual navigation scheme. The main links will be provided on the top of every page and subpages will be accessible from any page.

Website Blueprint

This blueprint shows how users navigate the site. The home page shows how users are able to navigate to all of 5 main site sections. From the home page, users can go directly to see new movie releases DVDs by simply clicking the DVDs section and click on New Releases. Each section of navigation menu has sub sections although News section does not. News section basically shows the current news about top box office movies, upcoming movies, etc.Also, there will be breadcrumb bars, as you can see on the blueprint diagram above, that will help users by providing navigational context while they navigate through the site.

The wireframes are quite useful as they enable the website developer/designer to interact freely and easily with the site contents. The wireframes below show the home page, Deals page, DVDs Sell Shop page and about us page.The Wireframes below show the arrangement of the content and navigation laid out the site.

home:

My Account:

Add to cart:

all Books:

Contact us:

Matrix supports the user with necessary decision making process, weighing the value of each vocabulary to the use experience against the cost of development and administration. The below controlled vocabulary table identifies and represents the keywords and their assessment for the internal search engine of the site.

This table shows Beautiful Future website’s metadata matrix.

Vocabulary	Description	Examples	Maintenance
Book genres	Category of book	technology, science etc..	medium
Cart	Shopping cart for the book	user's order(add book to cart for shopping)	high
rating	book's rating	Accurate book rating(1-10)	medium
Audience	High education student	University students	low
page type	type/size of the book	book's page,size,etc..	low

The controlled vocabulary manages the vocabulary terns and relationships integrating with the database, aids in search query.

Accepted Term	Variant term
Contact us/About us	fill out request form
Sign in	log in
shipping	ship out, dispatching
copy right	policy, copy right