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The first step was to get with the client (phone and e-mail) and determine what his vision for the site was and what kind of services he wanted to provide. One of the first things that needed to be defined was the purpose of the site and what the client wanted to accomplish. The main purpose is to educate the public about the preservation of migratory species, sensitive breeding habitats, and endangered ecosystems. Habitat Alert provides a way to educate the public including children. It also accepts donations and sells a few items to raise money.
The author team then
A mission statement.
An information area to
A children's section to inform,
An online petition that can be signed.
E-cards that
Shopping carts to sell small items to raise funds.
A section for accepting donations.
You will develop many of these sections throughout this book. There are some areas such as a shopping cart that go beyond the focus of this book. But check the links page on the CD for recommendations.
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Mockups can be done in FreeHand or in Fireworks. FreeHand is great for multiple-page
A list of categories was developed based on the client's needs and a flowchart was drawn out. Since the mockup was already basically done in Fireworks and already laid out in Dreamweaver the authors created a flowchart using the Site panel. Flowcharts can be made in Dreamweaver, FreeHand, and Fireworks.
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The
Joyce Evans was responsible for making the e-cards, adding sound, and preparing the Flash assets for the site. For the most part, she used the vectors that Ron had drawn instead of making new drawings in Flash, not because Flash is inferior but because she's not an artist. Doug Sahlin then incorporated the e-cards into a Flash interface, which connects to ColdFusion (Charles Mohnike wrote the ColdFusion section). Charles Mohnike did the ColdFusion coding of the e-cards and Doug did the Flash remoting.
Joyce was responsible for preparing all additional graphics in Fireworks (supplied by the client and Donna), optimizing, slicing, and exporting. The files also had to be exported into the proper folders for use in Dreamweaver to facilitate round-trip editing. Because of the book the authors did, at times, do things several different ways. For instance, the rollovers were created in Dreamweaver, but the authors show you how to do them in Fireworks as well as how to insert that code directly in a Dreamweaver layout.
Donna did the layout in Dreamweaver. She had direct contact with the client and she did the actual
Charles was responsible for connecting all the dynamic data using ColdFusion. The newsletter, e-cards, petition, and shopping cart are all
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