Integration Project

Be prepared

Step 1. Think about subject of your website. It may be anything you want, but you need to be sure before you started working. It may be your hobby site. If you like dogs – it may be a site about dogs. If you like cooking – it may be site about cooking. Antique cars, music, astrology, traveling, your family– anything you want. The only advice – information should be easily categorized into several small pages.

Step 2. Collect at least some material you want to be displayed on the site. Scan photos or find images on Internet (don’t download copyrighted images). Open images in external editor and adjust their size and quality – make them small enough to serve as illustration to your text. Write content text for at least two pages – one introductory – where you will represent your site and tell about it’s purpose, second – content page – about one dog, one planet, one member of your family or what you have chosen to be the subject of your site

Step 3. Try to imagine your site and write the list of informational categories, which will be displayed. For sure some of them will be like “Title”, “Subtitle”, “Text”, “Picture”, “Logo”, “Buttons”, “Links”. Think over what elements will stay during all lifespan of your site and what will change from page to page. For example Title and Links will be “static” but Picture and Text will be “dynamic”

Step 4. Draw a sketch (you may also use Flash for that purpose) with all your layout elements presented. Distinguish “static” and “dynamic” elements. On our example you may see that we painted “static” elements with light gray and dynamic with yellow.

Step 5. Decide how may pages you will create for your site. For example for "Dogs" site – Home page, Poodle, Cocker Spaniel, Sheppard, Labrador, Borzoy. For "My Famliy" site – Our Family, Mike’s Shop, Jack’s Hockey, Jane’s Garden, Mary in University. Right down the list of pages

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