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Website Specification Example
This is a sample of a site spec that I would use when giving my developers work. You would edit or add between these brackets <TEXT HERE>
Development of <SITE NAME>
Main Top Navigation / Sections
<Accessibility / Home / YOUR LINK / YOUR LINK /Community / Directory / Contact Us / Site Map >
Side Navigation?
<Put any side navigation you want here.>
Page template creation
Article pages – pages for you to put articles in
Shopping Pages – for you to display feed results or a shop
Site Map – to show all the pages in list form to the public
Contact Page – with your site administrator contact details
Directory – For relevant links from your site to others
Forum / chat room style – To generate stick ability, build a database
Photo album - To generate stick ability, build a database
Shopping Cart – Generate revenue and build a database
Other pages
sitemap.xml – for search engine spiders to read
robots.txt file – for robots to follow
Product pages – with feeds on from affiliate networks that are searchable by:
Sport
Male / Female / Kids
Brand Name
Category (trousers, tops, jackets, shoes ……)
Interactive Features:
User login / registration for parts of the site (forum, shop, discount club)
Mailing list (MUST HAVE opt in for 3 rd party mailings)
Database
Form Handling (with a form template supplied for me to add forms later – going to database and email to me)
Credit card processing (nochex or paypal)
Google search box (searching in site and out of site)
Google ads (I will give you my login)
Newsletter feature
Tell a friend
Competition / Draw ( can you tell me what the options are?)
Promotional code facility for shop / forum / competition
Directory feature – using search engine feed (whilst we build up our own extensive directory – this one needs to be able to switch off and the other one replace it when it is ready)
For registered members only:
Shopping Cart (switched off for now) – register to buy – but free to browse
Discussion Forum & Chat room
Photo album
Journal - place for members to write a journal of their adventures
Classified Ads
Future development plans to bear in mind whilst developing
Free Email service
E cards
Directory – admin section for this to approve / disapprove links
Voting / polling feature
How would you describe the web site? What existing sites have a similar look and feel to what you want?
What level of design work will be needed?
Full Design & Logo
What server side programming languages should be used?
HTML / XHTML
PHP
What type of database do you use/want to use?
mySql
What operating system do you use/want to use?
Linux
How much tech support should the developer provide after development is complete?
1 – 6 months
What is your level of experience with Web Programming?
I have some / no knowledge but will need input from the developer
Specific requirements:
VERY IMPORTANT - Dreamweaver template required for me to add my own content and make any small alterations myself to navigation bars, logos, and so that I can turn features off and on.
- Flat url design. All pages – including forum pages and shop pages should be flat urls that is, not have & or ? in the url’s. They should be spider friendly.
- Within the template the meta tags, alt tags, title tags on all images and links and centre content on every page should be editable, so that I can enter relevant keywords on each page as I build it.
- Accessibility feature (see www.leabeven.com for example)
- If hosting is supplied, hosting should be verified as UK hosting for UK sites.
