Schedule of conditions

The schedule of conditions is the reference document for the design of a site, it should be established carefully. Its length depends on the importance of the site and can vary from one to several pages.

You have a Web site's project
It is necessary to start with to ask you the good questions to analyze your needs and to make it possible our webdesigner to propose the most adapted solutions to you.

Introduction
Your document will have to describe the fundamental characteristics of your group or organization (historical, fundamental goals, principles, operation, budget, main activities, products and/or services proposed...).

Type of the site
Define what you await from your site: shop's window or site tool, logic of communication (interactive) or of information (description)...

The target
Specify the public which you wish to reach. The general aspect of the site, its graphics, its ergonomics, its language or languages will depend on target. Enumerate the various targets and treat them on a hierarchical basis. For each one:

• Characterize the target: companies, private individuals, students, retireds...
• Give an importance to the target: primary, secondary...
• Specify the centers of interest of the target: search for information, needs of services...
• If you have partners or sponsors, which are their targets ?

The image
Image that you wish to give of your group, association, organization...

Goals of the site
It can be a question of the constitution of a base of data, diffusion of particular information, setting in network of specific competences of your group, to make known the company or association, to sell your products on Internet, to give to your customers councils on your products or services...

Structure
It is of the architecture of your information, of the large headings and sub-headings which will structure the contents of the site.

• Define each heading by a title and to make a summary of the contents.
• Choose a linear, radiant, arborescent structure...
• Aspect and quality of the site: shop's window, professional, simple, elaborate, ludic...
• Speed of access to information
• Presentation
• Animation and special effects...
• Constraints: to follow the already existing graphic charter of the company...
• Choice of the typography
• Choice of the photos, final improvements and presentation...

Periodicity and type of update
Define the way in which the contents will have to be modified or new contents put on line. Do you wish an in-house or external management of the settings on line ?

Description of the functionalities
Do you want a forum, a diary, files, news, consultable data base online ? All these examples are as many standard functionalities of an Internet site than you have to define preliminary.

• Viewing and operation of the site on several configurations
• Page-setting adapting to any resolutions
• Work out a logical, simple and intuitive navigation, the Net surfer should not lose himself (or to leave the care of these choices to the webdesigner)
• Design pages compared to the flow of the 56Ko modems.

Awaited benefit
Describe the benefit which you await from this site, sales turnover wished in the case of a site of sale, numbers prospective customers again, to improve the image of the company... It is also important to define the people most concerned by this awaited benefit.

Perspective
Future developments of the site...

Define your planning
The description of your project will be able to fix a key date for the setting on line and the handing-over of the sources. Envisage the methods of the references of information and the description of the shuttles and validations.

Define your ressources

• Human ressources: nominate a person of reference in charge of coordination for the realization and the follow-up of your site. This correspondent will have authority to make or relay the decisions and will be able to ensure the mutual exchanges. Indicate its name and its co-ordinates (email addresse)
• Budget: several elements are to be envisaged: design, realization, follow-up, formation, purchase of hardware, software or books, costs of connection, domain name, hosting...
• Contents: you create a site to bring contents there. Join now together the photos, texts and other information which you wish to see published.
  • Documents on digital supports (Word, Excel, photos...)
  • Documents on paper media (plates, newspapers of the company, photos, paper with heading, logo...)

Indicate volumes
Total number of site's pages, number of photos and images, sizes of the data bases and computer files (pdf...).

Define your technical requirements
Computer equipement available in-house, types of connections and practical of the Internet, material planned especially for the site.

Hosting
Choose an available domain name, one of our hosting formulas and order as fast as possible.

Our webdesigner will analyze the constraints according to various criteria
Tree structure, navigation, clearness of the pages, provision of the texts and images for an optimal page-setting, homogeneous presentation of the pages, typographical legibility, image which the site wants to reflect, choice of the graphic chart, weight of the pages, compatibility with the various navigators, constraints imposed by the navigators...

Referencing
Indicate the elements for:

• Search engines: keywords of the site, description of the site, indexed text. For the directories: category chosen, description. 
• List selected directories and engines.

Statistics of connections
Online access to the statistics of the site's frequentation. Those can include:

• Number of visitors access
• Key words typed by the Net surfers
• Source engines and directories
• Number of visits
• Visited pages
• Geographical source of the Net surfers
• Days and time sections of the visits
• Used types of navigators
• Origin providers.

Envisage maintenance
An Internet site generates annual costs mainly dependent on your connection to the network, the lodging of the pages and the maintenance of the domain name. With these standing fixed overheads those concerning the regular update of the data are added, support and formation, actions of promotion of your site...
Envisage also the follow-up of referencing, indicate the duration, the frequency of the reports of positioning and the re-registration in the engines and directories.

Rights and properties
Specify which rights you have or acquire on the property of the images, graphics, icon and other contents created or used for the site.

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