Section 5.

1 Objectives

Determine the purpose of your web site.

Determine the target audience for your web site.
Write a mission statement.

Section 5.2 Objectives

Describe three types of navigation schemes.
State the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme.
Choose the appropriate navigation scheme for a particular site.
Section 5.3 Objectives

Discuss the advantages of storyboarding a site.

Draw the navigation structure of a site.
Create sketches of a sites pages.

Section 5.1 Notes/Vocab:

Mission Statement: A statement that describes the purpose and audience
of a Web site.
Target audience: The main group of people that you want to visit your Web
site.
Section 5.2 Notes/Vocab:
Hierarchical navigation scheme: Type of navigational plan in which pages
are arranged in levels from top to bottom, with the topmost level being the
Web sites home page.
Top-level page: The highest level in a hierarchical navigation structure,
usually the home page.
Parent-child relationship: In a hierarchical navigation scheme, a page that
is connected to another page on a different level; the page that is on the
level above is the parent, and the page that is on the level below is the child.
Peer to Peer relationship: In a hierarchical navigation scheme, two or
more child pages that have the same parent page.
Linear navigation scheme: Type of navigational plan in which every page
exists at the same level, each page in the site is accessed from the one
before it.
Random access navigation scheme: A type of navigation plan in which a
sites pages are not organized in any particular order.

Section 5.3 Notes/Vocab:

Storyboard: A visual representation of a web site and its pages.
Page name: The name that appears in the title bar when the page is
displayed in a browser.
File name: The name of the HTML document that makes up the web page
itself.