Create a website with information on the games and other products that the company sell. This will contain screenshots and video clips of the game.

Part Two – Analyse

Introduction

Using Microsoft FrontPage, I will create a website with information on the games and other products that the company sell. This will contain screenshots and video clips of the game. Customers will be able to buy the company’s products, join the reward card membership program and contact Vidgame through this website.

Appropriate Software and Hardware

The most important program that I will be using is Microsoft FrontPage version 2000. FrontPage is the most widely used web design program and comes with Microsoft Office, which Mr Simpson currently has. I will use the Microsoft Windows XP operating system in which it runs, Microsoft PowerPoint to display screenshots of games as slides and Microsoft PhotoDraw version 2 to manipulate images. Microsoft Internet Explorer is also needed to obtain screenshots and video clips of games. A virus checker is needed to protect the website and the data in it from virus attacks.

The hardware required will be a PC, a Pentium 4 Processor - M 1.9GHz Laptop with a Nvidia GeForce 460 Go graphics card, 40GB hard disk, 512MB RAM, 15.0” TFT screen will be used as that is what the owner of Vidgame, Mr Simpson has. The PC is perfectly adequate for the creation of this website as the processor is relatively fast. I will also need an optical mouse as the touch pad on a laptop is quite difficult to use and a scanner to scan the location maps of the stores.

Data Input

Vidgame will be able to give me all the information required for this website. Screenshots and video clips of games can be obtained from the Internet. Maps of the location of the stores will also need to be scanned in, and the location of the stores marked on. The main bulk of the text that needs to be input is information on games and accessories. The text will be input by keyboard and the pictures and video clips saved from the internet will be inserted. Text will be spell checked and proof read.

Data Manipulation

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Data Input

Vidgame will be able to give me all the information required for this website. Screenshots and video clips of games can be obtained from the Internet. Maps of the location of the stores will also need to be scanned in, and the location of the stores marked on. The main bulk of the text that needs to be input is information on games and accessories. The text will be input by keyboard and the pictures and video clips saved from the internet will be inserted. Text will be spell checked and proof read.

Data Manipulation

Here is how I will manipulate the data to complete my objectives:

The main sections of the website must be accessible from all the pages in the website

The buttons will be inserted and linked to the correct pages.

They will be located on every page using shared borders

The company logo must appear on every page

The company logo will also be in a shared border at the top of the page

The website must contain animation effects

On some pictures that have a hyperlink to another page, when they are mouse-overed, they will animate e.g. a change of picture

The background of the pages must stay the same

There will be a theme set for all the pages in the website, this includes a background picture

The website must include

A home page

I will produce a home page which is what the customers will see when they first visit the website, the home page will be able to be accessed from every page in the website

Reviews and previews of games

The information on games will be input into reviews and previews. The user will give me all the information which I type in using a keyboard and format appropriately.

Screenshots and videos clips of games

The screenshots and video clips will be inserted into some pages. The screenshots will be changed into thumbnails to reduce loading time. There will be hyperlinks to the video clips to reduce loading time also, if someone doesn’t want to view it, they just do not click on the hyperlink. If there are many screenshots of game there will be a link to slides made on Microsoft PowerPoint saved as a web page with the screenshots on.

An hyperlink to games manufacturers website

On review pages, in the extra information section there is the game developer and publishers name which both have hyperlinks to their website. On the preview of games pages there are links next to the title. This is so that customers can find more information on games at an official website

The ability for visitors to buy products online

In the review of a game, there will be a picture of the box of the game and the text underneath saying ‘BUY THIS GAME’, when the picture or text is clicked on the page to buy the game will be accessed. On the home page, there will also links to a few games and a button next to that which links page to buy the game. To buy accessories on that page there is a button next to the description of an accessory saying ’BUY THIS ACCESSORY’

The ability for visitors to contact the company

There will be a form in which the customer can There will be the email address typed onto the page which when clicked on by the customer will open up their email software with the ‘writing a message’ open and addressed to Vidgame’s email

The location and maps of the stores

Once the map is scanned in, it will be imported into PhotoDraw and I will add an arrow to it to show the exact location of the store. On the left hand side of every page there will be the name of the location of the stores and the address, when the name is clicked on, a page with the map of the location of the store and some information about it.

Information on and a way to join the reward card program

On the right hand side of every page is some information about the reward card scheme and a picture of the reward card with an animation, when mouse-overed it swaps with a picture saying ‘JOIN NOW’ when clicked on it opens the page on which to become a member

Data Flow

Updating site information

Vidgame will need to update the information whenever it changes. The new information is then stored in the application file.

Visitors of the website accessing information

There will be hyperlinks to each page in the website. Visitors click on the hyperlinks to access the information they want. The system finds the appropriate page for the customer.

Output

The output is all screen based, it is the website that the customers visit and browse and interact with. An example of this is a web page with the review of a game. The company do not need to spend money on any additional output devices such as printers.

Backup / Security Strategy

The website must be backed up onto CD-RW whenever changes are made and once a week. A CD-RW is needed, as a floppy disk does not have enough storage space. This will insure that if for example, the hard disk is damaged, the data is still safe. One copy should be kept near the computer so that it can be used straight away if something happens to the actual file. The other copy should be kept far away in case a natural disaster or intentional damage happens.

Once the website is the password protecting the website from being edited should not be written down, the manger should remember it. The password should be changed regularly in case someone who is restricted finds out what it is. A virus checker is needed so that viruses will not harm the file.