Milestones

Development Teams Formed: 8/28

Team leaders please report your team roster online as soon as possible.

Milestone I: 9/19

• Project definition --- define your teams project, the scope and nature of work, the design and programming tasks involved, resources and information needed and any problems you foresee.
• Requirements --- what exactly will your finished website (or subsite) do for the client
• Team organization and task division --- who will do what
• Site architecture --- site map outline completed, flow chart and rough thumbnail designs for: homepage, major sections and sub-sections for the site completed.
• Server side features of site: security, dynamic pages, multimedia, databases, on-Web administration, E-commerce.

Milestone I is monitored by the instructors. Each team will submit a report addressing the 4 items and the instructors will give guidance and suggestions to revise the plans for your project.

Milestone II: 10/19

A content-based site, including textual as well as image/media content, is complete and the URL sent to instructors. If some audio/video media will take more time, at least a rough version of it with its on-screen position and dimentions will be put in place by this milestone. The site does not need to have site-design graphics or Javascripts. But some basic server-side features, such as session tracking and database support, should already be in evidence. What remains is the addition of graphics, multimedia and complete server-side programming. Please indicate the URL where the inistructors can take a look at your content-only site.

A design and code integration scheme has been worked out for the project. At this stage the code and design are still tantative. But page templates for major parts of the site need to be established where the tentative design is integrated with the emerging content and code.

Work out a scheme where improved code and improved design can be "dropped in" to the project without much effort. This way a slow-in-coming design or code will not hold up the project. This will also put more import on thinking about how the code will integrate with the design early on, before it is too late. This milestone requires teams to show the text-based site with tentative design.

TAs to meet in the lab with the students and go over the site and check it against requirements set forth in stage I.

The project should basically be as close to a fully functional 2nd generation site as possible.

By this point, banners and constants should be in place. System for navigation and forms roughly designed. Any major problems need to be addressed here. TAs must disclose a whole report for each of the teams and report any red flags.

Milestone III: 11/19

Now your site must give a good idea of the final graphics and design ready to be analyzed by the instructors. This is you last chance to get input before your final team presentation. Pls plan for that presentation and your team and individual reports. See Guide for Reports for more info.

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