Web Development Report -- Analysis

Analysis :

The What You Say Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) rule is hold for website developing, the more details and discussion at the analysis stage will produce a product which close to the expectation.

1. The Need :-
• The purpose of project is to develop a website  for customer to view current special on travel packages as well as current flight and hotel prices for EFC company. In addition, information about a variety of destinations will be provided for customers before they make their booking or visit.
• As most of the customer will use notebook and desktop to access the site, therefore in this stage we will not take account for the handheld mobile device interface.
• At this moment, only English version of website will be implement and Chinese version will be add in the future.
2. The Technology/Standard :-
• In order to make our website has better accessibility and lower development cost, this project needs to follow strictly on the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web standards and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) (wikipedia, 2011). The XHTML and external CSS  will be used in the development as they are traditional W3C recommended standards which are support by most of the internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome,etc). The Level 2 (AA) WCAG version 1.0 will be the minimum requirement on this project. By applying the web standards, it will enhance the website popularity by the major search engines (Google,Yahoo).
3. The Market :-
• There are a lot of online travel agencies available in the market, by reviewing all those similar sites it is not difficult to figure out the common standards, pros and cons of the industry. By taken account on those findings (layout, contents, color scheme,etc), we can make sure our design are stand out of the crowd.
4. The Content :-
• EFC company history and contact information
• Specials on Packages, Current Flight and Hotel price
• Destination Information
• Multimedia elements -- Images, animations, videos and audio commentaries
• Site Map
• Customer Comment/Testimonial
5. The cost :-
• Domain name cost --> Yearly fee US$10-30
• Hardware and Maintenance cost --> one addition Windows Web server and data server US5000-7000. Labor cover by existing IT support team. Future content update will be provide by sales team and update on the website by IT support team.
• Bandwidth cost --> The existing company internet bandwidth can cater for the need, if extra bandwidth is required due to large amount of customers, the cost will be around US100 per month (10M lease line).
• Development cost (200-300 work hours depend on the amount of pages, multimedia contents)
• Usability/Accessibility Testing cost -- internal test will be carry out by the IT department 2-3 times on different stages before the final release, final release test will be carry out by a local web consultant company and it will cost about US2000.
• Advertising cost (10-15% of the company revenue)