Homework #2

A
1. The reason it is important to create a high level plan for your website is because if you don't plan for everyones needs, you may have an unbalanced design that is not user friendly, or may not work for everyone. Building a website is like building a house, you must have the architechtual design before you can start to build the house. The same goes for a website; if you don't have a plan in order, then you will have a shoddy website that either the client or customer may not like.

2. There are seven steps to planning a website and they are the basic steps you will need to take to  have a successful project. They are: 1. Define project requirements, 2. Conduct research and analysis, 3. Develop design, 4. Build, 5. Test, 6. Deploy, and last is 7. Maintain.

3. An information architect analyzes, organizes and labels information on the Web to be intuitive and usable. The ten major roles of an information architect are:
1. Primary audience goals.
2. Personas
3. Current content inventory
4. Competitive analysis
5. Content strategy
6. Content outline
7. Content gap analysis
8. Site diagram
9. Page description diagrams
10. Wiregrames

B

My grad plan is somewhat under construction still, but here's what I have planned as a graphic design major.

Spring 2011
FDENG201
ART 130
WDD 100
AUTO 100
FDREL 234
FDSCI 203

Fall 2011
FDWLD 201
FD SCI Issues

Winter 2012
ART 110
ART 297R
ART 201
ART 230
ART 117
FDREL 200

Spring 2012
ART 301
ART 297R
ART 202
ART 235
FDREL 215
ART 160

Fall 2012
ART 400
ART 306
ART 240

Winter 2013
FD REL
ART 438R
ART 331
ART 437R
ART 297R
ART 435R

Spring 2013
ART 297R
ART 335
ART 336
ART 337
ART 430
FD REL