COMP4040: Activities - Session 10

General description of the activity

We will be looking at the different techniques that we might use to help in the design of our web pages and revising the concept of the design cycle as it might apply to web design.

A flowchart is a useful way of illustrating the design process. You are asked to produce a flowchart which will be your first attempt at illustrating how you might go about designing a web site. You should then discuss how your flowchart uses ideas from the traditional design methodologies. Your flowchart should be uploaded to your website and commentary on this activity should e put on your blog with a link to the flowchart on your web site.

Activity Instructions

• open a suitable tool for producing a flow chart e.g. MSPowerpoint;
• design a flowchart which explains in outline how to produce a web site;
• write a brief outline of how your flowchart uses ideas from design methodologies and why a flowchart is a useful tool in web design;
• upload your flowchart to your website and link to it from a suitable web page;
• publish your outline on your blog by making a post called "Designing a flowchart" and include a hyperlink to the appropriate page on your web site;
• then go and have a look at what other people have said. You might want to reply to one of their messages if you have similar ideas and agree with their comments.