City Dance EnsembleYellow Team

Goals

Create a website that can be easily updated and maintained

Database tools for e-commerce functions

Competitive Analysis

Web sites visited:

• http://www.gwirtzmandance.org/

• http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/

• http://www.danceplace.org/

• http://danceexchange.org/

• http://www.thedanceco.org/index.html

• http://www.ptdc.org/

• http://www.kankouran.org/cms/

• http://www.nainichen.org/

• http://www.contradictiondance.com/

• http://www.washingtonballet.org/default.htm

• http://www.thedanceco.com/

Competitive Analsysis - What We Learned

Lacked clear navigation (i.e. no breadcrumbs, had to drill down to find information, etc)

More content, slower the site speed

Different methods for donations

Social media links

Key Points We Liked

Best site performance did not have a lot of media

Floating drop-downs allowed the user to find information quickly

Social networking integration (Facebook and Twitter)

Goal: Create a website that can be easily updated and maintained

CMS vs PHP/HTML Debate

+ PHP/HTML - greater control over the website and integration with database (good for reporting)

+ PHP/HTML - cheaper and flexible

+CMS - not technical

Goal 2: Database tools for e-commerce functions

Donations

Performance Tickets