Project Summary

Our client is Wedding Planners, Inc., a professional wedding planning and consulting company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The web presently offers many wonderful tools to assist a couple in planning their wedding. However, many of these tools are rather impersonal and sometimes difficult to use. Our client’s goal is to develop a more personal experience for the user. Among other features, Ourwedding.com will provide an opportunity for brides and grooms to leave remarks/feedback regarding their experiences with local vendors. New users can use this information to help them make decisions. The site will also provide photos and information about local ceremony and reception venues, which will also double as a way for local photographers to advertise their work.

Project Team Members and Contact Info

Team member Contact Info

Karen Dec, Project Manager brightgirl@mac.com

Karen Ford, Content Editor & QA pawska@aol.com

Chris Visel, Information Architect cvisel@umich.edu

Robert Scully, Coder & Tester scully687@sbcglobal.net

Schedule

Milestones

The key milestones for this project are listed below; milestones are also identified in the timeline/Gantt chart. The milestones include:

Milestone	Milestone Date
Initial Project Plan completed	May 25, 2006
Competitive Analysis completed	June 1, 2006
User Task Analysis (Personas) completed	June 8, 2006
Content Inventory completed	June 8, 2006
Functional Specification completed	June 8, 2006
Information Architecture completed	June 15, 2006
Interface Wireframes / Mockups completed	June 20, 2006
(Plain vanilla HTML) Site Templates completed	June 27, 2006
Coding for site completed	July 5, 2006
QA testing completed	July 6, 2006
Website completed and ready to launch	July 18, 2006

Timeline/Gantt Chart

See Appendix 1.

Scope of Work

The site will be developed in two phases:

Phase 1 will Include the following features:

· Our Wedding.com Home Page

· Our Wedding

· Our Schedule

· Our Wedding Party

· Our Guest List

· Our Website

· Find A Vendor

· Review A Vendor

· Find A Venue

· Review A Venue

· Submit Your Services (for Vendors/Venues)

Due to time constraints, Phase 1 will not include:

• Graphics or logos

• Java functionality in navigation

• Interactive web design tools

• Database functionality for processing forms

Success Criteria

Increase number of visits to Ourwedding.com wedding planning website.

Provide services that users can access 24 hours a day and 7 days a week (when normal operations are closed).

Provide personalized wedding planning tools and improve on tools/features found on other wedding planning sites.

Provide interactivity for users to leave feedback/remarks about local vendors.

Provide interactivity for users to leave feedback/remarks about local venues.

Provide an area where users can view various venues, which also allows photographers to advertise their work.

Website Objective

The objective of our client’s wedding planning web site is to provide users with personalized tools to assist them with planning the most important day of their lives. Couples will use the site as their central scheduling agent, vendor and venue locator, and communication tool. Interactive calendars will not only help the couple keep track of important dates, but also provide important email reminders for everyone involved. For example, the wedding party can check on important dates and information such as when and where to get sized for dresses/tuxedos. A tool this site will provide that seemed to be lacking on other similar sites is a way for users to leave feedback about vendors and venues and share their experiences. The will also include a way to view venues by certain search criteria which also acts as an advertising tool for photographers.

Target Audience and Platforms

This project will be designed as a personalized tool for couples planning a wedding. The target audience will consist of males and females ranging from age 18-40, from various economical, educational, and sociological backgrounds.

Using a Windows or Macintosh platform, users will access the website mainly from personal computers and laptops. Experience level will vary from novice to experienced computer users. Browsers targeted for this site are Internet Explorer (IE 5.x – IE 6.x), Firefox, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, and Netscape (4.x -8.x). Users will need internet access, and also an email account for registration and notification purposes.