Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Sitemaps/flowcharts/storyboards for Journi

Now is time to create a site map for the Journi website. This will allow me to see all of the pages in advance and the layout plan of my site.


All of the pages are straight forward the only page with a difference is the county page as it will have links to the different counties in Ulster. Each county will then link to operators within that section and on their pages there services will be included.

The sitemap has shown the following pages:

  • Home
  • About
  • County(which will go to the various counties and then in turn will take the user to the operator' page)
  • News
  • Travel Updates
  • Contact Us
Currently I have twenty definite pages as I know of some operators already providing the services but now I am waiting for other operators to get back to me with their timetables and whether or not they wish to be included in the website.

Below is a flowchart that shows the process of my site from beginning to end. The flowchart begins with a meeting consultation that began back in week one when we were told to email a text document with the following details:
  1. Your Name
  2. A 50 Word Pen Portrait
  3. Three Prospective Projects (Title, Brief Description, Pros and Cons)
  4. Five Inspiring Websites

This image has been taken from My Major Project Proposal.


Below are the storyboards that I have created for my journi website. The storyboards are similar to the paper prototypes only they give a more accurate idea on how the website should appear.

These are the first three pages which are almost similar just with slight different layouts in the main content area. I have gone for a simple, easy approach just like I have researched National Express and Stagecoach create. On the Home page I will have the simple navigation along with some visually expressed content on the left main content area. I will have a Travel Update along the right which will be the Twitter Widget that I will create so that operators can #tag the journi twitter with relevant updates. On the About page I was going to place links along the bottom of the page for Facebook, Twitter and Latest News.

These two pages alike the county page will also be similar as they all have the same layout. The only difference between these pages will be the size of the content area and the different types of styles that I will be including in each of them.


 The selected county and operator pages will also have the same layout keeping a consistency throoughout the whole of my project. In all this will be the basis for my website as I will be using this as a support to the layout of the site. I will be including these storyboards in my Major Project Proposal as part of the appendices as they are a platform in which I will be structuring my project.

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