Unit number 13: Website Design And Development

Assignment Brief
Student Name/ID Number

Unit Number and Title 13: Website Design And Development

Academic Year 2023

Unit Tutor S.D.Ujitha Sudasingha

Assignment Title Final Assignment – Batch 03

Issue Date 2023

Submission Date Submission for Formative Feedback: Six weeks from

assignment release date
Final Submission: One week after formative feedback
submission date
Submission Format

The final report needs to be shared as a word document. For the viva student needs to participate
with a demonstratable working solution. Apart from the online report submission in the viva date it
needs to share a hardcopy of the assignment to the viva panel.

Unit Learning Outcomes (Assessed by This assessment)

LO1 Explain server technologies and management services associated with hosting
and managing websites
LO2 Categorise website technologies, tools and software used to develop websites
LO3 Utilise website technologies, tools and techniques with good design principles to
create a multipage website
LO4 Create and use a Test Plan to review the performance and design of a multipage
website.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

Critical Analysis, Analytical Skills

Vocational scenario

Imagine you are a professional software engineer/web developer

 Assignment activity and guidance

AMC is a recently established international school. Board of directors of AMC has decided to put
their initial step of digitalization with launching a website/web application. Since there is no inhouse
software development team, they have decided to outsource the website development project.
Assume you are the selected web developer to design and develop the website/web application.
Website has mainly three pages Home page, about us page and contact us page. All these three pages
are static web pages. In the Home page there is a link to the web application. When user click the
link user needs to be redirected to a login page. After entering the successful username and password
the user needs to be land on a dashboard page. Web application has several modules like user
registration, subject management, payment module and so on. In your assignment you have to
consider only subject management module. On the Subject Management module user needs to list
all the subjects, add a new subject, view one subject and delete one subject functionalities.
Considering below criteria and the learning outcome criteria create a report and design a multi-
page web site/web application to satisfy above requirement. You have the freedom of design the
format of the report document.

1. Create set of wireframes of the website and web application.

2. Design user interfaces based on the wireframes.
3. Use appropriate principles, standards and guidelines to produce a branded, multipage
website.
4. Consider the relationships between front-end and back-end website technologies.
5. No needs to host the web site and the application but need to mention the server selection,
DNS selection in the document.
6. Need to mention the SEO techniques used on the website in the document.
7. The technologies and frameworks used on the website and application development.
8. Design test management plan with suitable test cases and test logs (more than 20 test cases
and logs)

All students need to participate for a viva session after submitting the assignment report with a
demonstratable working solution.

Recommended Resources
Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting point in your
research – the list is not definitive.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Explain server technologies and management D1 Justify the technologies,
services associated with hosting and managing websites. management services, tools
and software chosen to
realise a custom-built
website.

P1 Identify the purpose M1 Analyse the impact of

and types of DNS, common web development
including explanations on technologies and
how domain names are frameworks with regard to
organised and managed. website design, functionality
and management.
P2 Explain the purpose
and relationships M2 Review the influence of
between communication search engines on website
protocols, server performance and provide
hardware, operating evidence-based support for
systems and web server improving a site’s index
software with regard to value and rank through
designing, publishing and search engine optimisation.
accessing a website.

Pass Merit Distinction

LO2 Categorise website technologies, tools and software

used to develop websites

P3 Discuss the M3 Analyse a range of tools D1 Justify the technologies,

capabilities and and techniques available to management services, tools
relationships between design and develop a and software chosen to
front-end and back-end custom-built website. realise a custom-built
website technologies and website.
explain how they relate to
presentation and
application layers.

P4 Discuss the
differences between
online website creation
tools and custom-built
sites with regard to
design flexibility,
performance,
functionality, User
Experience (UX) and User
Interface (UI).
Pass Merit Distinction

LO3 Utilise website technologies, tools and techniques

with good design principles to create a multipage
Website.

P5 Create a design M4 Justify the multipage D2 Evaluate the design and

document for a branded, website implementation development process of the
multipage website, decisions against the multipage website against
supported with medium design document. the design document
fidelity wireframes and a including any technical
full set of client and user challenges faced.
Requirements.

P6 Use the design

document with
appropriate principles,
standards and guidelines
to produce a branded,
multipage website
supported with realistic
content.

Pass Merit Distinction

LO4 Create and use a Test Plan to review the

performance and design of a multipage website

P7 Create a suitable test M5 Analyse the Quality D3 Evaluate the results of the
plan, identifying key Assurance (QA) process Test Plan and the overall
performance areas to and review how it was success of the multipage
review the functionality implemented during the website with
and performance of the multipage website design recommendations for
multipage website and development stages. improvement.
developed
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