Overview of the System

This Includes the Major purpose of the website, the main function for which the website is created and the users which are going to access this site and what kind of users they are and what do they expect from the website.

So this section includes:

· Site details and their purpose
· The target audience of website
# Students
# Prospective students
# Faculty
# Staff
# Researchers
# General people
# Business Related People.
#Shoppers
#Connection Seekers
#Transactors
#Business Browsers
#Fun Seekers

·The Primary reasons they are using your site for
# Information
# Services
# Community

What technology they might have?
# Modem
# DSL
# Broadband
# This will help determine optimum page sizes
·What target audience expect
·Create a map of your site and check that it is logically arranged/linked

#Specify the DOCTYPE

#Declare the natural language type

Check your competitor’s website and have a look at the Information
they are providing. There are three things that people have on their mind when they come to a site: “I have a task to do,” or “I’m interested in a certain topic,” or “I’m part of a certain audience that needs certain kinds of information.” They come with questions. A good organization scheme figures out which of those three (maybe a combination) are the important ways to organize the information in the site – by topic, by task, by audience.

To Be Avoided

A number of pitfalls await the new webmaster. Here are a few traps to avoid:

• Don’t hand-code your word wrapping. New HTML coders tend to use the tag to hand-insert carriage returns. Avoid the temptation to do this. The browser will wrap text for you based on
the font size and the window size.

• Don’t design for the computer on your desk. Design your pages to work with a variety of window sizes and browsers. If you make it beautiful for your screen, don’t assume it’s automatically beautiful on other people’s screens.

• Don’t blink. It’s tempting to use the blink tag to highlight text. Most readers find this annoying. Avoid it.

• Counters. There are a number of services that offer counters, odometer-like inline images that show how many visitors your site has had. Including a counter on a page is usually a sign of a beginning or amateur site. Use Web log analysis tools to find out your usage patterns. If you publish this information, do so discreetly, not on every page via counters.

• Don’t overload your menus with narrative. One of the great strengths of HTML is the ability to add a hyperlink in the middle of a sentence, wherever it seems natural to do so. This tempts some webmasters into the trap of lavishing annotation on all their menu pages, to the point where every menu of choices becomes War and Peace. It takes the user time to wade through all the annotation, if the user has to do this every time he or she visits the menu page, the user is likely to find the site an unfriendly place to visit.


Examples

This system will be easy-to-use, powerful Learning Management Software. It will allow the Administrators to control the whole software, Teachers to control student functionalities and students to undertake assignments, courses, tests etc.
Looking at the Requirement Document one can say that Administrator will be the main controlling authority and student will be the end user of the system.

Special Comments: As the site is going to be used by few people (not more than 10) for the Admin purpose only and not for the outside world, there is no scope for Usability here, but still I will include my comments, I hope these comments will be helpful to you.

·The system helps buying and selling of plastics equipments and connects buyers and sellers of plastics equipment.
·The major end users would be from plastic (mechanical) industry and so we need to understand that most of these users are not computer experts and might not be familiar with many of the functionalities related computers and Internet.
For such audience only user-friendly and easy to use products will work.