Rochester, NY -- My Home

Rochester, NY - Documentation and Sources

This page is to provide documentation and sources for information in the development of this website.

Documentation:

1.0 Goal:
To provide information about an area or place where I lived or would like to live.

2.0 User experience

2.1 Audience
The intended audience is anyone that is unfamiliar with the Rochester,New York area and would like to have some basic knowledge about the communities history, culture, entertainment, sports, and businesses.

2.2 Scenario
Rob-Bob, age 25, lives in Boston, decides to visit a girlfriend who lives in Rochester, NY. He decides he likes the city (and girlfriend) and wants to know more about what types of businesses there are in the area. So he surfs the Internet and finds (our) the Rochester, New York website. One click from the Home-page, he's on the business page which offers an insight of the types of businesses located in the area, plus a brief description.

2.3 Competitive Analysis
I compared four other sites about Rochester, NY and most all the sites had setup sections for different categories such as entertainment, theaters, sports,
ect. Each section/category had weblinks set to the different establishments such Strong Museum, Geva theatre. They didn't go into introductions or detailed information about their pages or links. Some sites had problems with their images, rollovers not working, and links to other websites.

3.0 Site content and Structure

Section 1 - Rochester, New York Home page
Navigation and images (w/ links)

Section 2 - Famous People
Text and images

Section 3 -Entertainment and Arts
3.1 Museum Section
3.2 Theatre Section
3.3 Music Section

Section 4 - Businesses

Section 5 - Recreation and Sports
5.1 Interesting Places
5.2 Sport Teams

Section 6 - My Sliver of Rochester
6.1 Personal history
6.2 Private Family Newsletter (password protection)

Section 7 - Map of area/state

Section 8 - Feedback form

Section 9- Documentation and sources
9.1 Documentation
9.2 Sources

4.0 Programs Used
This site was designed using tables in Dreamweaver 3.0, the graphics such as the buttons, background, and banners were created in Fireworks 3.0.
Rollovers, animation, and hidden images were coded using Javascript and text appearance and positioning was made consistent on each page using cascading style sheets (CSS).
Feedback form used PERL and setup on the server side (.cgi), also protected files used htaccess technologies provided in UNIX.