Express Holidays Website Project Planning Week 1 * Lecture slides prepared by Dr Lawrie Brown ([email protected]) for “Data and Computer Communications”, 8/e, by William Stallings, Chapter 1 “Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet”. IntroductionExpress Holidays is a tourism company that designs and provides package tours to various destinations. Being a well-established company but has no online presence where customers can visit and view packages on offer. Due to this demand the company wants you to develop a prototype of their website. * Web Site Client QuestionnaireWeb design and development is a collaborative process and needs involvement of both the developer and client in all stages of development. Planning the whole process before kicking of make each and every component of the work to be successful.Questionnaires and checklists are focused on making the relationships with the client better * Effective and efficient data communication and networking facilities are vital to any enterprise. Three different forces have consistently driven the architecture and evolution of data communications and networking facilities: traffic growth, development of new services, and advances in technology. Momentous changes in the way organizations do business and process information have been driven by changes in networking technology and at the same time have driven those changes. These include a growing need for high-speed LANs in the business environment to support requirements like Centralized server farms, Power workgroups, and High-speed local backbones. Also changes in corporate data traffic patterns are driving the creation of high-speed WANs. Lastly rapid conversion of consumer electronics to digital technology is having an impact on both the Internet and corporate intranets, dramatically increasing the amount of image and video traffic carried by networks. Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsTell me about your Company.Give me a brief and precise history of Express Holidays company and how it has grown up to date.Please give me a brief overview of the Express Holidays company, what you do or produce, what service you offer, how do you offer the them? Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the purpose of this website?Explain your products and services.Do you intended to bring more clients to the company?Do you want to provide information to customers on certain subjects?Do you a need blog to address specific topics or interest?Do you want to sell your products online? Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the time frame to complete the project?From when do you plan to let the project start?For how long do you want the website to be ready and running?Is there a specific deadline you would like to put in place for the website to be ready and running? Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the planned budget for the project?How much are you willing to spend on the project? ...

1. Express Holidays Website Project Planning
Week 1
*
Lecture slides prepared by Dr Lawrie Brown ([email protected])
for “Data and Computer Communications”, 8/e, by William
Stallings, Chapter 1 “Data Communications, Data Networks,
and the Internet”.
IntroductionExpress Holidays is a tourism company that designs
and provides package tours to various destinations. Being a
well-established company but has no online presence where
customers can visit and view packages on offer. Due to this
demand the company wants you to develop a prototype of their
website.
*
Web Site Client QuestionnaireWeb design and development is a
collaborative process and needs involvement of both the
developer and client in all stages of development. Planning the
whole process before kicking of make each and every
component of the work to be successful.Questionnaires and

2. checklists are focused on making the relationships with the
client better
*
Effective and efficient data communication and networking
facilities are vital to any enterprise.
Three different forces have consistently driven the architecture
and evolution of data communications and networking facilities:
traffic growth, development of new services, and advances in
technology.
Momentous changes in the way organizations do business and
process information have been driven by changes in networking
technology and at the same time have driven those changes.
These include a growing need for high-speed LANs in the
business environment to support requirements like Centralized
server farms, Power workgroups, and High-speed local
backbones. Also changes in corporate data traffic patterns are
driving the creation of high-speed WANs. Lastly rapid
conversion of consumer electronics to digital technology is
having an impact on both the Internet and corporate intranets,
dramatically increasing the amount of image and video traffic
carried by networks.
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsTell me about your
Company.Give me a brief and precise history of Express
Holidays company and how it has grown up to date.Please give
me a brief overview of the Express Holidays company, what you
do or produce, what service you offer, how do you offer the
them?

3. Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the purpose of
this website?Explain your products and services.Do you
intended to bring more clients to the company?Do you want to
provide information to customers on certain subjects?Do you a
need blog to address specific topics or interest?Do you want to
sell your products online?
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the time frame
to complete the project?From when do you plan to let the
project start?For how long do you want the website to be ready
and running?Is there a specific deadline you would like to put in
place for the website to be ready and running?
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is the planned
budget for the project?How much are you willing to spend on
the project?How do you plan to release the planned budget
amount? Full disbursement or partial disbursement.How much
are you planning to make from the website in the first year of
production.

4. Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWhat is your target
market?Who do you think will visit this site? Describe your
potential clients. Young, old, demographics etc. Why do you
believe site visitors should do business with you rather than
with a competitor? What problem are you solving for
them?What actions will user perform when they visit the site
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWebsite content.What
are you offering to the user over the website?What pages and
how many do you want to have in the website?Do you have the
written content and images/photographs prepared for these
pages? What additional feature do you want incorporated in the
website?
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWebsite Design.Are
there corporate colors, logo, fonts etc. that should be
incorporated? Is there a specific look and feel that you have in
mind?People are coming to your new site for the first time. How
do you want them to feel about your company?
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsWebsite of closest
competitor.Is there a website of closest competitor you
know?Do you like the website?What do you like and don't like
about them?

5. Marketing the SiteHow do to people find about your business
right now?How do you intended to market the site?
Web Site Client Questionnaire QuestionsDomain and
Hosting.Do you already have registered domain name?Do you
have a hosting account already? If yes, do you have the login
information?
Website Maintenance.Would you like to be able to do most of
the updating yourself?Is there any section that you would like to
be done in future?
Website Sitemap
Home
index.html
About Us
adout.html
Destinations
destinations.html
Contact
Contact.html
Miami Beach
miami.html
Arizona Forest
arizona.html
Mt Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro.html

6. Website Layout
Home pageExpress HolidaysContact:
+1 323 4334 343Copyright 2017It is located in African
Tanzania and is the
Highest mountain in AfricaRated the third beautiful and most
ever busy beach in the worldArizona sceneries form one of the
best geological ground in united state of AmericaHome
About Us Destinations Contact US

7. Website Layout
About pageExpress HolidaysContact:
+1 323 4334 343Express Holidays is a tourism company that
designs and provides package tours to various destinations. It is
a well-established company started in 1998 and operating over
the world. They have there main headquarters at new
York.Copyright 2017Home About Us
Destinations Contact US
Website Layout
Contact pageExpress HolidaysContact:

8. +1 323 4334 343
Contact Form Come Here
Express Holidays Comapany
P.O Box 345-00100
New York
Telephone: +1 342564443
Email: [email protected]Copyright 2017Home About
Us Destinations Contact US
Website Layout
Miami Beach pageExpress HolidaysContact:
+1 323 4334 343Copyright 2017It offer very cool environment
for vacation
Holidays etcRated the third beautiful and most ever busy beach
in the worldIt is located in the most conducive ground and
security is at highest levelHome About Us

9. Destinations Contact US
Website Layout
Kilimanjaro pageExpress HolidaysContact:
+1 323 4334 343Copyright 2017It offer very cool environment
for vacation

10. Holidays etc.Rated the third beautiful and most ever busy
tourist in AfricaIt is located in the most conducive ground and
security is at highest levelHome About Us
Destinations Contact US
Website Layout

11. Arizona pageExpress HolidaysContact:
+1 323 4334 343Copyright 2017It offer very cool environment
for vacation
Holidays etc.Rated the third beautiful and most ever busy
tourist in United StateIt is located in the most conducive ground
and security is at highest levelHome About Us
Destinations Contact US

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