Furnitures Web Design Phase 1

Overview: Modern Design is a store that sells modern furniture and offers interior design advice to its clients. The store would like to establish their Web presence immediately, so they have asked you to create a single Web page providing an overview of the store. In later assignments, you will be expanding the store's site to include multiple pages. Follow the Web Site Design Plan shown below when creating the page.

Purpose Statement: The purpose of this Web site is to provide information about Modern Design for customers shopping for modern furniture, contemporary accessories, and interior design services.

Audience Profile: The audience for this site will be people looking to purchase modern furniture for their homes.

• Looking for furniture that is interesting and functional.
• Computer literate to computer savvy.
• Primarily located in the local region, but furniture may be shipped anywhere within the continental U.S.
• Middle to upper income individuals.

Site Objectives:

• Establish credibility of the store.
• Provide information about the types of merchandise the store sells.
• Encourage site viewer's to come to the store, call by phone, or send e-mails.

Content:

• Images of the types of furniture sold in the store.
• Information about the interior designer.
• Contact information (phone number, address, and an e-mail link).

Structure: The initial site design will be a single Web page.

Web Page:

• Color Scheme: The background color for the Web page will be white (#FFFFFF). The primary text color will be black (#000000) with important text in dark red (#CC0000). Links should default to dark red (#CC0000), visited links should also be dark red (#CC0000) and active links should be black (#000000).
• Layout: The contents of the page should all be centered. At the top of the home page will be a banner image displaying the store's name. Below the banner image, there should be links to anchors at the beginning of each section of information on the page. The page should include the following sections: Furniture, Meet Our Designer, Visit Us, and Contact Us. At the bottom of the page, another set of links to the beginning of each section and to the top of the page should appear.
• Navigation: Since the site is initially composed of a single page, user-based navigation is not an issue. User-controlled navigation is accomplished through anchors at the beginning of each major section within the page and links to those anchors at the top and bottom of the page. If you prefer, you may use graphic links.

Deliverables: For this assignment, you should:

• Create a folder on your hard drive for storing images and other graphics you may want to use. You may download images on the WWW or create them yourself.
• Create a new local site to use for your assignments. As you insert images into your Web page, you should answer "Yes" when asked if you want to copy them to your local site. Your local site folder should only contain the images you actually are using on the pages in the site.
• Create a Web page named "index.htm" using the Web site design plan described above.
• Insert a banner image showing the company's name at the top of the page. Create an anchor at the top of the page.
• Below the banner image, insert links to anchors at the beginning of each section.
• For each of the sections discussed under Layout above, insert a section title at the start of each section and make it an anchor. Include at least one paragraph of text for each section and format it as discussed in the design plan. While it is okay to review similar Web sites for ideas, do not copy your design and content directly from an existing Web site.
• Insert another set of links to each anchor and to the top of the page at the bottom of the page.
• Include the appropriate CSS style definitions in an internal style sheet.