LO5 Feedback and Evaluation

Overall, my website definitely works, it may have a few flaws but these are very minor. One thing I would have liked to do very much was include a video of one of the Small Machines operating, but unfortunately I did not have one of the small machines at hand to record, nor could I find any videos (Which I would ask for permission to use) which I would embed in the website.  In summary, the results from my tests show that the users found it very easy to navigate the website, they reached the targeted external links hidden within the website with ease, and in the amount of clicks on links I presumed would take for them to get there. This was where the link was to get to the external page;

I had asked them to go to one of the products on the Royal Armouries webpage, which they had to go to here:

  It would take them to this page, in which they would then click the 'Buy it' button:

This ends up taking them to the external page, the button was the External hyperlink:

I also made them test a few internal pages they had to find within the webpage which they also found easy to navigate to. These were;
The blog which was in the navigation bar.

The cart represented by an icon on every page.

The Mini Digger product page, once again in the navigation bar.

Then I asked them to click the 'add to cart' button on the Mini Digger's Shop page to see if it gets added to the cart, I would have had to pay a premium subscription to allow me to do all the complicated accounts and placing an order features, but again the item does go to the cart anyway, showing that the button does work:

In conclusion, navigation and the internal and external links don't need improving upon as I believe that based on the feedback, the navigation is easy for a visitor of the site, and the links take the visitor to the locations they are supposed to.

Next, I tested the pages load times, this being one External links and one internal link. The external link was tested, I wanted it to load under a second, the users had tested the link and it had loaded under a second. This unfortunately was not the same for the internal link, although one said it did load under a second, the other did not, this may have been because of their connection or browsers they were using, so this isn't something I really have control over so it will be hard to improve this.

The next test was based around the browser the user had used, and how the performance was I made the user not just test the website on a different browser but on a different platform too, on mobile and on desktop. Overall, when testing on a different platform the users were asked to see if anything was out of place for the user on their mobile (using any browser), I had used Wix.com and they had a built in mobile-friendly mode for the website I was making, which I had used, but surprisingly, the mobile-friendly mode was not shown, but the desktop version. This is very bad as it will be harder for a user on a small screen to use, making it an uncomfortable experience for a visitor on mobile, this is something I definitely need to fix so that it does work on mobile. So when using different browsers, Google Chrome and Mozilla Fox, according to the results there was not much difference between the two, they both worked near enough the same and so I did not really need to improve the performance of the website on a browser. 

Finally, the consistency of my websites house style, reviewed by the test plan, simply states that my house styles are solid and consistent throughout the website, I had asked them to go through out all the different pages in my website to see this. I do not see any problems with the house style as I just went with the theme of red because of the logo, the rest was to mostly contrast against the red, and I thought grey was the best option. I could have been more specific in the testing to see how I could of improved upon it.

LO4: User Testing

How I will test my website:

Navigation: 

I could test this by making it so the user has to find a webpage as quick as they can, this will show how easy it is to navigate as the quicker they get to a page the more easily it was to navigate for them.

I could also test this by seeing how many clicks it takes for them to get to a certain page, as the less clicks on links they had to make, the easier it was to navigate for them. I will make the webpage they have to find external (The Royal Armouries shop).

Internal and External Hyperlinks:

These will be tested with navigation in mind as the user has to click on these kind of links to get to the target page (when testing navigation), I will see if the links actually take them to the page the link said it would, internally (within my website) and externally (outside my website). 

Page load Times:

This will be tested with one singular link, to make it a fair test across all users. I have noticed that the shop I had put in my website takes the longest to load, but I want to see how long, so the user will test how long that is. I will then also do a test to see how long it takes to get to an external link too.

Performance of Website when using different Browsers:

I will test this on two platforms as well as two browsers, one on mobile and one on a desktop, because my website has a mobile-friendly option too I want to see how it compares to the desktop version. The two browser the user will use are up to them, but I may have them state what they are.

The consistency of the house style:

I will test this by making the user go to each page that are each a different type of page, so one will be the home page, then a products page, then the blog page and then finally the store with one of its product pages, which is different to the previously mention product page. The user will be then asked whether or not the house style does consist throughout the website.

The Test Plan:

Test numbers which are testing navigation are 1,3,4,5.

Test numbers which are testing internal and external hyperlinks are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Test numbers which are testing page load times are 2 and 7.

Test numbers which are testing the performance of the website on different browsers are 8 and 9.

The test number which is testing the consistency of the housestyle is 10.

User: Will Slater               

Date: 25/05/2016

Platform: iMac

Browser: Safari (Default browser for iMac)

Test No.	Task	Expected Outcome	Actual Outcome
1	Go to one of the products on the Royal Armouries webpage (Accessed through an External link within the website)	Minimum of 3 clicks on hyperlinks to get to the external webpage.	It only took me 3 clicks to get there.
2	How long does it take to load the external link that is one of the royal Armouries product pages?	Less than a second.	Took a little more over a second to load.
3	Find the Blog (Starting from the home page).	Blog found easily.	Found
4	Find the Cart (Starting from the homepage)	Cart Found easily.	Found
5	Find the Mini Digger product page (Starting from the homepage)	Mini Digger Product Page found.	Found
6	Does the Mini Digger item show up in the cart when the ‘Add to cart’ button is clicked.	Yes.	Yes
7	When ‘Shop’ is clicked in the navigation bar, how long does it take to load the page? (Internal Link)	Less than a second.	Yes
8	Using any browser on a mobile phone, is there anything obvious out of place?	No.	No, everything is laid out the same as the Desktop (Chrome)
9	Using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, is there any noticeable performance issues between the two?	No.	No, they both work the same
10	When browsing through the different pages, would you say the house style is consistent?	Yes.	Yes.

User: Louis Norton                                                                                                                             

Date: 25/05/2016

Platform: Windows 10

Browser: Google Chrome

Test No.	Task	Expected Outcome	Actual Outcome
1	Go to one of the products on the Royal Armouries webpage (Accessed through an External link within the website)	Minimum of 3 clicks on hyperlinks to get to the external webpage.	3 Clicks.
2	How long does it take to load the external link that is one of the royal Armouries product pages?	Less than a second.	Less than a second
3	Find the Blog (Starting from the home page).	Blog found easily.	found it
4	Find the Cart (Starting from the homepage)	Cart Found easily.	found it
5	Find the Mini Digger product page (Starting from the homepage)	Mini Digger Product Page found.	found it
6	Does the Mini Digger item show up in the cart when the ‘Add to cart’ button is clicked.	Yes.	yes
7	When ‘Shop’ is clicked in the navigation bar, how long does it take to load the page? (Internal Link)	Less than a second.	Took a few seconds
8	Using any browser on a mobile phone, is there anything obvious out of place?	No.	Nothing is out of place. It had the same set out as the computer version.
9	Using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, is there any noticeable performance issues between the two?	No.	Both work about the same.
10	When browsing through the different pages, would you say the house style is consistent?	Yes.	Yes. They all have the same kind of colour scheme and wallpaper.

LO3 The Website

The Website:

http://10mcnallyt.wix.com/small-machines 

The website Progress:

6/4/16 - 09:56am: My desktop webpage's home page

Since I had done the above I decided to make all the pages a consistent house style, I did this by  making my background the same for all the pages, Wix.com allows you to do many things, I chose these settings which allow me to keep the tree bark texture but also have a sort of red filter over it, it also allowed me to keep the background still whilst the centre of the page moves. I also had to make the image tiled due to the quality being bad when stretched, this caused the edge of the images to not merge next to each other, so I had to make it so its positioned in the bottom left ;

27/5/16 - 11:00am: My mobile website's Home page.

27/5/16 - 11:06am: My desktop website's Home page

27/5/16 - 11:57am: My mobile website's Shop item page.

27/5/16 - 11:06am: My desktop website's Home page

I kept the house style consistent with the product page by always having the same format, as shown bellow;

LO2 Planning a multi-page website: Small Machines

Purpose:
The purpose of the website for 'Small Machines' is to promote and sell Giles Gover's hydraulic powered construction kits like; diggers, lifts and hoists as well as accessories like Lamp kits and Dock kits. It is also to especially promote a range of kits called 'The Royal Armories Range' which are to be sold at its museums exclusively by the Armouries at their sites in Leeds, Portsmouth and The Tower of London, the products are basically mini wooden kit versions of siege weapons and devices from warfare in history.The kits are made from FSC approved wood and the packaging it 100% recyclable.

Audience:
It is asked that the website is aimed at both genders and that it should appeal not just to the 6+ year olds who will construct them, but also the person who will pay for it who are the parents, a relative like an uncle or just as a person who is buying it as a prize for example.It will be aimed at people who are upper middle class (people who's jobs are a profession or are in high management), middle class (Lower Manegment, professional) and lower middle class (Superviser, junior management or professional).It will also be aimed at people who are likely to make repeat purchases. The location of the audience may vary depending on how they can get the product, in this case people who live in Sheffield, and also people who live around The Royal Armories museum which are Leeds, Portsmouth and London.

Content:

Website Homepage Housestyle (PC):

Website Homepage Housestyle (Mobile):

Website Homepage Wireframe:

Website Flow chart:

Gantt Chart: Estimated schedule for the production of this site.

Houstyle Moodboard:

Legal and Ethical:
Data Protection is a legal issue and the data protection is apart of the DPA (Data Protection Act) which is a law that protects a individuals data, these are things such as their photos, name, address, credit history etc. that are placed in a computer's database, these can be easily accessed and edited, a business can easily obtain this information, if the company that has it sells it or uses it without your permission, they have violated the law. They need to indicate what the information that they're going to store is and how it will be used, they also need to declare how it will be kept safe. Finally, they need to agree that they won't use the information in any other way.

There is one legal thing I will have to make sure I have a SSL Certificate, the reason behind this is to show to the customer who is purchasing anything from my site using their personal information that I will never share anything of it, the SSL certificate is specifically a small data file which allows a secure network between a web server and a website. I would need this if I was planning on coding my own site, but instead I am using Wix.com, and they can handle all of the credit card data etc. this is shown in their privacy policies.
Link to the Privacy Policies of Wix.com:
http://www.wix.com/about/privacy 

LO1 - BBC News

A)Purpose: This websites purpose is to inform people of the news in the UK and the rest of the world, It informs on different subjects such as politics, science and entertainment news. The target audience is mainly towards adults as adults are the ones effected mostly by what goes on in the world, so they need this to know what’s going on and because its informing adults it is written in formal.

B)Visitor needs: This website lets the visitor easily look up news in there local area by just typing clicking on the 'Find Local News' button where it takes you to a page that you type in your post code and it'll show you the news in your area.The page also lets you choose what news subject you want which are located in the navagation bar and it will then link you to news about that subject.

C)Information flow: The page layout is quite clear as it has all the videos to go with some news at the side on the right as well as the radio stations that you can listen to online. The main story is at the top of the page in a bigger section that the smaller stories. The sections all have images that go with a headline of the story and a little description, when you click on it, it links you to that story so you can see it in greater detail. Finally, because the 'news' is a sub-website to the actual website 'BBC' it has another navigation bar that takes you to the other sub-websites of the BBC, like 'iPlayer' and 'TV'.

D)Features: This page has many features that some other pages do not have, for example the website, like I mentioned before has location device which can use your I.P address to find your location, you can also type in your post code and it will find your location that way, but if your on mobile it may use the GPS on your phone or tablet.

E)Benefits: The benefit of BBC having a website is that it needs to inform or educate otherwise they stop getting funding and then they can't keep running the website, so the benefit of the website doing what it does is that the page can be kept up.

F)Content: For about 14 years the BBC news website has been the same format, but as the times went on the BBC website we know today is much more presentable and colourful as to the website in 2001. The website now is also much wider than before as now they know how to code it so it's wider. Other similarities could be that back in 2001 you could watch videos and listen to audio features, but now they are better quality and you can listen to live audio like the radio. It has the main stories central to the page and smaller or minor stories at the side, on the other side their is a location feature similar to todays but not as complex or sophisticated, as it only lets you see news specific to a continent like Asia and Europe, but today it lets you see regions of a country like for the UK it will let you see news specific to Yorkshire, this shows that the website has come with the times as it informs better than it did when it near enough started in 2001. So in conclusion the content of the BBC News website has increased to better fit people who want to know what's happening in these times.