Research Website: Proposal

As midterms approach, I am faced with a new challenge: a research website, using the HTML and Adobe DreamWeaver skills I have learned thus far in the semester.  Thankfully, I don't have to go it alone: with the help of partners Monique Morris and Will Spurway, we hope to create a useful website revolving around global food and how to bring popular global dishes into one's own kitchen.

Our site proposal is as follows:

1.) Declaration of research topic.  Food; more specifically, popular dishes from six different regions of the world (we have chosen to focus on the United States, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia). Each page will contain a minimum of 3 dishes, each dish as unique/different from the others as possible to accommodate multiple tastes. Some things we hope to include are: recipes, pictures, description, history behind the dish, and general taste.

2.) Organization of content.  We plan to organize our information and pages of our site by uploading them to one single Stritch account; however, we will each still be in charge of specific pages, as discussed in part three of the proposal.  The information will flow in a hierarchical method of navigation; we want users to be able to access any page from anywhere.

3.) Division of labor / responsibilities.  Our group will be dividing the workload as follows:

• Will will research dishes from Europe & Australia and create 1 web page per region.
• Monique will research dishes from South America & Africa and create 1 web page per region.
• Paige will research dishes from the United States & Asia and create 1 web page per region.
• The home page and works cited page will be a collaboration from all three members.

4.) Rough vision for layout, theme, navigation, etc.  Included below is a very rough mock-up of what we might like our home page to look like.

Please note that the title is subject to change.

• Header: Includes title and subtitle.  Possibly on background image, otherwise we are considering a neutral beige color.
• Title text: Something bold, possibly scarlet red?
• Body text: Lighter, near-white color.
• Side Navigation: Link to home page and 6 regions we are covering.
• Each region will have an expandable menu to access 3 different subregions; however all 3 will remain on the same overlapping region page (so these links will go to different parts of the same page).  Keep navigation on left of page.
• Content: Located to the right of navigation.
• Home: description of what the site is for, a welcoming to users, etc.
• Regions: 3 dishes per region References will be included within the content pages

It will be interesting to see how our plans take shape and what changes occur in the process. I will be updating this blog continually throughout, so please look forward to it!