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Part Eight: Final Documentation

I. Compare with Initial Documentation

Carefully read through the original planning and conceptual work that you submitted in the beginning of this project. This is where you defined the target audience, the purpose for the site, why visitors will visit the site, the creative brief that describes a look and feel of the design, your goals, objectives, strategy, vision, and the mission.

What ideas did you originally propose that have since changed? Why did you depart from the original plan?

Make sure that you your documenation plan and the original site match up. You will be graded on this documentation as it relates to the site. I will look to see if the goals and objectives you specified can be achieved with the new site you redesigned. Things that you proposed in your documentation should be apparent in the redesign or else ammended.

II. Organizational Chart

From Part Two, Information Architecture, include a simple organization chart (like one of the examples discussed in class). There should not be any Raw Graphics (files with the following extensions: .psd, .png, .fla) inside your Local Root Folder, and you should remove all unnecessary files.

III. FTP your Site

Your Web Site redesign should be linked to from the portfolio or assignments section of your course site. Also, this redesigned Web site should be in its own folder within the structure of your course site. See File Structure for an example.

IV. Final Test

Give your site a final run through, where you double check all links, images, pages, content, spelling, titles, meta tags.

V. Hand in Documentation

Turn in your final documentation:

A.) Your original documentation that you already turned in during planning and conception stages of the project (you do not have to turn this in again)

B.) Organizational Chart detailing Information Architecture. This was not included in your first round of documentation. (Example)

C.) Addendum to Original Documentation: what changes, address inconsistencies between the final product and what you proposed. If every thing went exactly as planned, then you only need to turn in the organizational chart.

VI. Remember that Documentation is 25% of your Grade!

This means that even if you create an A+ design, your grade can go down to a C with poor or missing documentation. Be careful and thorough here!