Proposal Finished!

This week our proposal was worked on Monday in class and finally finished by Wednesdays class to turn in. We emailed the proposal to Beth and Carolyn on Wednesday during class. For our proposal each person wrote on the link from the website that they developed, Ashley finished the website, and Alex put the final documents together into the proposal form. Also, during Mondays class we worked on the executive summary and the introduction together. We included the audience that we are trying to target, the layout of the website, and screen shots of each of the pages in the website. This was included so that Beth and Carolyn could see what the potential website could look like. We also received and email from Beth telling us she really liked the pictures that we used on the website and that she thought our proposal was well done. Overall, our proposal was very organized and said exactly what we did very well.

Our website was also finished this week with the pictures being added to each of the pages to make sure each page was not just words and boring. We made sure that the pictures were diverse in race and included adults and children. This way people will know that this homeless shelter is for everyone and not just one group of people. Also all the links were finalized in the sense that each of the links were on all of the pages so when people are there, they will not have to push the back button 800 times. Now someone who is on the website can just click the home button on the bottom of each page and get back to where they started if they wanted. They can do this with any link.

Now since the proposal was given to Beth and Carolyn we just have to wait for a decision on which website she picks. Our proposal will also be looked over for corrections to be put into our next portfolio.

Group Proposal Update

Our team met briefly in class today to discuss our proposal. We all had similar ideas for how the body of the proposal should be organized. We want to include three main headings: Audience, Design, and Links. We feel that these are the three most important aspects to our web design.

In the audience section we plan to include some statistics and visuals to make the report easier to read. We are hoping to receive some statistics on how many people the Sunshine House helps to include. We think that this will make people more likely to donate money if they can see how much of an impact it has. The audience section will also include our research on who our website is designed to reach: homeless people and donors.

The design section will justify the main layout and color scheme of the web page. Our goal was to create a user friendly web site with a minimal amount of text arranged in a way that makes it easy to read. We used bulleted lists whenever possible and avoided paragraphs of text. The layout of the links makes them easy to navigate so even people with limited web experience should be able to find any information they need.

The links section will be the bulk of our proposal. In this section we will include information about what we wrote on the site, as well as a justification for inclusion. This is the section where we will justify the use of paypal and address any security concerns. This section is what will make our proposal stand out, as this is where our proposal will differ from everyone else's. We also plan to include small graphics of each part of the webpage to give visual appeal and further explain what the links will be like.

Our plan is to write the bulk of the links section this weekend, and then to work as a group on the other parts of the proposal. Alex, as the writer, will then be in charge of putting it all together to make it flow. We feel like we already have most of the proposal done, but we just need to organize the information we have and put it all together.

We are planning to use the class time on Monday as our only meeting next week because everyone has hectic weeks next week. After Monday any further communication will be conducted via e-mail, and our final proposal will be ready to submit on Wednesday.

On Monday and Wednesday of this week, our group met to discuss and try and make some progress on our website. During this week, things really started to come together for us in terms of having an actual website. All of the links have been composed for the website. Each member of the group composed and sent a link to Alex, who then edited them. At our meeting on Wednesday, we went over in detail what was on each link and any corrections that Alex had suggested. I think we were all impressed by the work we had done on them, and I think the Anderson Sunshine House will be happy with the information that we have chosen to display on the website. It is a good representation of all of the information that we have been able to find through our research and we think it will be very informative to anyone who needs information about the ASH! We have subitted all of our writings to our webdesigner, Ashley, and she is working on the draft of the website, so we are anxiously awaiting the finishing of that! At the meeting on Wednesday we discussed our progress and we think we are making good progress and are at a point we need to be. We dont really know which direction we need to go in from here, but since we are having a client visit on Monday, hopefully a lot of our questions will be anwswered and we can determine what steps we need to take from here on out! I know we are all excited to meet the client and put a face to the company that we have been working so hard for! The next thing we have to work on is the proposal, but we are hoping that Angie will give us some more details about that before we can really get started on that. So right now we are kind of in limbo, but I'm sure that will change very quickly!!