Project Proposal

Needs
The Student Council needs a website to reach out the student body and also be more transparent. Unlike the previous website, the Student Council needs a website that can be easily maintained (the previous one was too much of a hassle to configure, edit, modify and post -> very inefficient). It should be easy to add and revise both text, photos and additional pages if necessary.

Solutions
I will provide the Student Council with a innovative, creative web design that is easy to navigate and provides related information to current subscribers. Currently, the student is not very successful in connecting with students at Shatin College. The design will not only allow students to engage with the student council, it will also help improve it's current image and effectively depict the Student Council as a professional, reliable student-led organization. The new design will fully integrate the current logo and color palette so that it will remain distinct and familiar to the majority, and will introduce complimentary colors that will benefit the overall look of the website.

Content Management System:
In regards to the template I will create, there will be a simple Content Mangament System (CMS) that will allow the client to easily make changes to the website without requiring specialized equipment or software to do so. I plan on connect Google Slides to the template (through mySQL and PHP) since software made by Google is easy to access and user-friendly.


Website Organization:
The new design will have 5 main pages:

1. Home Page
2. Introduction to the Team
3. Recent Projects
4. Meet the Team
5. Weekly Minutes
6. FAQ / Contact Us

These pages will be set as the default pages of the template. Content can be added using the CMS, however, the feature to add pages will most likely not be implemented as it may clash with other parts of the code.

The Plan
Working along the Student Council, I will provide the committee a simple wireframe of the preliminary design of the website. The design will provide a basic look of the different parts of the website (as listed above), and will be susceptible to all kinds of modifications. If any other features are wanted, the student council can contact me through Gmail or other types of social media.
Project Post-Completion
By the time this project will be completed, I will have added the CMS into the template. A brief training session will be held during one of the Student Council weekly meetings where I will run through the basics of the website. As this will be at the very end of the project, any of the client's requests to modify the CMS, unless it is a small request (change in font or size), will unlikely be implemented as it may lead to major technical issues.