Time Plan

Below is my fancy-looking time plan for the work ahead. It all has to be finished by the middle of February 2011, so prepare for a lot of posts.

Sticking to the time plan has been difficult, but I believe I am getting the work and research finished according to plan. Any changes I need to make will be minor tweaks in recent posts, as well as the future posts. I believe I have included enough information to give me ideas, and to give YOU an idea of what I'm on about. If you look through everything, I think you'll agree that enough detail has been included so far. I think if someone else were to develop my site for me, I'd expect them to follow the time plan relatively accurately and I'd expect them to complete everything well and in detail, on time.

Site Plan

Here is an image I created from shapes and lines in Word showing the type of layout I'm looking at for my navigation.

As you can see, the logo will be at the top and it will be clickable as a way to take the user back to the home page. The navigation bar will be at the top and will consist of around 10 tabs with drop-down boxes for each, consisting of sublinks to various pages. Underneath the navigation bar will be the page content. Nielson's usability guidelines will be used, hopefully, in all the pages. I want the site to be easy to navigate and simple to comprehend. I don't want it to be too complicated. I want someone to visit the site, looking for something, and to find it quickly. I think this is why a search bar will help.

The pages I am planning to have linked are the News, Competitions, TV, Downloads, Music and Games pages.