Family Connections Work Site
Time Line
(Revised 10/27/00)

 

= Met Goal at set date
= Met Goal at later date
= Plan changed

 

Task
Status
Start Date 
Completion Date


Responsible Team
Members

Comments
Strategy
Site Goals 9/29/00 10/11/00 All Donor / Volunteer Driven
Branding Message 9/29/00 10/11/00 All
Target Audience 9/29/00 10/11/00 All
User Scenarios 9/29/00 10/9/00 All
Content Development
Initial acquisition of information
Staff Bio 9/29/00 10/11/00 Eddie Last Bio Received 12/7/00
Partners Info 9/29/00 10/11/00 Eddie
Program Info 9/29/00 10/11/00 Annie, Linden, Ted
Special Events 9/29/00 10/11/00 Charise, Annie, Linden, Ted
Art work 9/29/00 10/20/00 All
Photos 9/29/00 10/20/00 All
Review of other missing content with client 9/29/00 12/1/00 All Last Content Received 12/7/00
Information architecture
Initial Site Map 9/29/00 10/6/00 Eddie
Finalize site map with client 10/11/00 10/11/00 All Site map approved by client and site architecture finalized.
Story boards for pages 10/11/00 10/20/00 All Time constraints kept us from developing site storyboards for each page.
PHASE 1:Text only site 10/20/00 10/27/00 All Client determined that text only site was not required - content not ready by 10/27/00
Acquisition of any other content from client 10/11/00 10/20/00 All Continuing to receive content from Client
Finalize content layout with client 10/11/00 10/27/00 All
Start Full Graphics Site 10/20/00 11/24//00 All Final Graphics site completed 12/8/00
PHASE II: text only site 10/27/00 11/10/00 All Client determined that text only site was not required - content not ready by 10/27/00
Design and Graphics
Obtain colors and style preference 9/29/00 10/11/00 Annie
commence style guides 10/11/00 11/24/00 Annie, Ted, Charise
Round 1 of comps and navigation scheme  10/2/00 10/11/00 All
assignment of images to pages 10/11/00 11/24/00 All, picture assignments completed by team member who is responsible for those pages. Image acquisition is a continual process and is updated periodically with new images
Show client first comps and inner pages  10/11/00 10/11/00 All
feedback from client round 1 comps 10/11/00 10/12/00 All Annie will be client liaison for design comps in future rounds.
Scanning and color adjusting photos/artwork  10/11/00 11/10/00 All, picture assignments completed by team member who is responsible for those pages.
Take pictures of staff and Halloween party 10/11/00 10/27/00 Annie, Ted Pictures taken and posted to shared folder under Family Connections Project
round 2 of comps & navigation scheme 10/12/00 10/19/00 All Client requests redesign of home page.
Show client second comps 10/19/00 10/19/00
approval from client round 2 comps 10/19/00 10/20/00
final acquisition of artwork/photos 10/31/00 Final acquisition of artwork 12/07/00
scanning of photos artwork 11/17/00 All
finalization of assignment of images to pages 11/17/00 All Image assignment not finalized until the actual building of pages
finalize design of inner pages 11/17/00
11/22/00 Alpha Site Testing / Completed
alpha site (20%) 11/22/00 11/27/00 All Secondary and Tertiary Navigation pages finalized by the client.
Finalize links  10/20/00 11/27/00 All Navigation is finalized and posted to the style guide.
alpha testing  10/27/00 11/27/00 All
beta site (100%) 11/27/00 12/8/00 All
beta testing 11/27/00 12/8/00 Beta testing to continue 12/9 and 12/10/00
12/8/00 Beta Site Complete
Preparation for project review 12/4/00 12/8/00 Preparation for Project Review to continue 12/9 and 12/10/00