This section follows the clear understanding of what the website is all about. The target audience have been selected and what needs to be on the webpage. After choosing the target audience, making a decision on which content for the audience is also important. Getting it right what the audience wants is a key component to designing a successful website. This section is going to detail the content and functional requirements of the website . This section helps in gathering the most important part of a website which is the content. The structure on how the website will be structure and organized will be analyzed in this section. It is important to have categories and sections that clearly bear information that is relevant to the users. This ensures that users do not spend a lot of time search for the content on the website. Information-architecture is process of ensuring that each section of the website is properly organized.
The functional requirements of the website will be; to enable users create accounts by signing up. The website is should be able to send out newsletters through emails. There will be contact page where the website should be able to receive messages send from the site by users and automatically send a notification about receipt of the message. Content inventory is where the articles are stored. This is the area where grouped contents will be stored. The inventory will composed of articles that are more favourable and most suitable for the target audience. Creating content inventory involved the process of looking at the sites of the competitors, what they have and what they do not have in their inventory.
The process of coming up with the groups which are being referred to as categories is to ensure that there is a proper structure of the work. The website had five categories with each having several subcategories. The inventory was designed according to the groups created and the main menu links to the website.
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