Website Design Proposal for Rare Books Store - ICTWEB507 Project

This document presents a website design proposal for the “Rare Books” store, aiming to modernize its online presence with a database-driven content management system (CMS). The proposal addresses the client's needs for a user-friendly platform that allows easy content updates without requiring constant IT support. Key features include customer registration, a customer database, discussion forums, book reviews, and feedback collection. The proposed solution utilizes HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript for front-end development, with PHP and MySQL for back-end functionality. Additional WordPress plugins like AccessPress Anonymous Post Pro and Community plugin are suggested to enhance user interaction. The document also outlines server and hosting requirements, emphasizing the importance of adequate disc space and bandwidth. Desklib provides this document as well as numerous other solved assignments and past papers to aid students in their studies.

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The “Rare Books” Store Website Design Solution Proposal
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Introduction
“Rare Books” bookshop seeks a redesign of its existing simple HTML based website.
While the existing website has served the shop well since it has been providing relevant
information to its current and prospective clients, the excellent response and the inclined
population of its visitors, as well as changes in technology, demand a database driven website to
serve its clients. The “Rare Books” store, therefore, needs a unique modern content management
system CMS for the purpose of serving its customers and increase the productivity of the
business.
Analysis of client’s needs and limitations
The “Rare Books” store needs a modern data-driven website to update its brand and for
data management on the web. The new web application will be built to reach out to the
prospective customers and the current clients of the “Rare Books”. Furthermore, the “Rare
Books” needs a website where data can be updated when needed by the “Rare Books” manager
without the need of regularly employing an IT expert. The “Rare Books” store has a lot to offer
to its clients, and this has generated a feeling that through superior design, I can convey dynamic
energy and diversity to all prospective as well as the current clients of the “Rare Books”.
Specific functionalities and features
Working in conjunction with Mr. Richards, a new fresh web design that can be navigated
easily and offer useful information to its subscribers will be done. The design will convey to its
potential clients that “Rare Books” is professional and can be reliable database driven website
(Antelman, 1999, pp. 176). The design will have the following features:

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i. A platform for new customer registration.
ii. A database for customers.
iii. A discussion forum for registered users.
iv. A book review for registered users.
v. A database record for clients’ feedback.
vi. Upload and download data from a database.
Suggested platform (Content Management System CMS)
A robust Content Management System CMS will be the primary consideration in the
design phase. This will allow the “Rare Books” management team to easily make changes to the
website whenever required, without seeking additional software or more workstations (Del Real,
2013). The Content Management System will not only save “Rare Books” website revision cost
but also ensure that the website stays fresh and updated.
Content structure and navigation
The proposed website will have five to seven landing pages. The new design will have
landing pages hardwired into it, and their links will be placed at the horizontal menu bar at the
top of the page five pixels under “Rare Books” logo. There will be a left-hand column in every
page that the “Rare Books” will use for creating more links to as many more web pages as they
wish. As a result, the Content Management System CMS allows for the addition of as many
pages as possible including landing pages without incurring additional expenses.
Programming language and hosting structure

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Before the design process begins, the necessary tools for the job must be chosen. The
primary means that will be required for the website to function fully are html5, CSS, and
JavaScript for front-end (client side) development. PHP and MySQL will be used for the
backend (server side) development to make the website dynamic. MySQL, however, will be used
to create the database as PHP scripts retrieve data from the database to clients and vice versa
(Yank, 2009, p. 73-113; Machnicka et al. 2013, p. 262-273).
Additional plug-ins
To let the website users to submit contents from the front-end, this website will utilize
some additional plug-ins to facilitate the predefined task. There are a significant amount of
premium WordPress plug-ins that can that can be used. However, the following two plugins were
proposed for the website.
One plugin is AccessPress Anonymous Post Pro plugin. This plugin has many
customizations, as a result, it will give its users as much flexibility as possible which will enable
them to submit contents to the website (Power, and Kaparthi, 2002, pp.271-302). Another super
powerful plug-in that will be used for this website is Community plug-in. This plugin will
facilitate the development of user review section where they will submit their reviews
concerning a particular book.
Server and hosting requirements for the website
The “Rare Books” must host the website to make it available for its customers. However,
before making hosting decision, it is imperative to consider hosting requirements (Lee, Chappie,
and Go Daddy Group Inc, 2011). The following will be considered for hosting the website. The
first consideration will be disc space. Adequate disc space will be selected for the website, given

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the fact that adequacy of disc space may vary from site to site, the size of the website will be
checked before hosting then a space which is more than the size of the website will be allocated
for the website.
Another important consideration will be bandwidth. For the website, a reasonable
bandwidth will be selected during hosting process to increase the rate at which data will flow
across the network to and from its users.

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