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- Product detail page
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Product detail page
We looked at the administrative page for managing product details last time. Let’s look at the Product detail page wireframe.
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Teasing out data/information requirements
Administrating information On large technical projects you’ll be lucky enough to have a business analyst working on the data requirements and/or the system architect (head developer) will write a technical specification that runs alongside the functional specification. In our case … Continue reading
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Team involvement
When reading my posts, this planning malarky, can sound like a solitary activity. It isn’t. The way you approach a project is always dependant on the requirements of the project. In general I like to have the following at hand … Continue reading
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The sitemap
Phew! I’m happy to get to the sitemap – I didn’t think it would take me this long to explain work that usually doesn’t take that long when I plan projects and have the requirements at hand. Before I draw … Continue reading
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Internal business clients
I’ve done a lot of work on websites that has a publicly available section, password protected section for registered users and multiple levels of administrative personnel where we’ve built bespoke content management systems for the business. Planning the website and … Continue reading
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Special user types
In the previous two posts I talked about user requirements, user types, functionality (blog and content pages) and general requirements (good SEO) common to most websites. Special user types I refer to a user with information requirements that: fits the … Continue reading
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Finding information
One of the user segments we expect is people looking for information. Information relating to the company’s jewellery is the primary information. The secondary information types are to attract people interested in crafting and making jewellery. The website will include … Continue reading
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Information requirements: what does the user need?
In the previous post we talked about company requirements. The next step is to figure out what people who visit the website would want. It’s quite quick when you do the planning, but explaining it will take a few posts. … Continue reading
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