Web site thoughts

This questionnaire should help you clarify your thoughts on how to start planning a web site that fits your business or personal needs.

Web type *

Product or service sales

Project/product quoting and purchasing

Project management and follow up

News distribution like newspapers or magazines

Information sharing for members in organizations

Human ressource system

Course and event management + grade management

Which of the different web site types would be describe your web site

Other web type

If the types of web sites did not exactly fit what you want to build then please describe it here.

Goals *

I want to expand sales

I want to ease administration of my job

I want to give users faster answers and easier access to answers

I want simpler communication with my business partners

I want to involve the users in my business by creating forums, blogs etc. where they can participate

I want to share files and information with my clients and business partners in a centralized place

I want a well defined workflow where definition and acceptance of milestones and tasks are well documented and reported

I want to measure the activity level my users have and by that have a feeling for their interest in my business initiatives

I have manual reporting to headquarter in my company that could be done easier by filling out electronic forms

I spent too much time on the phone answering the same questions and would like to get the answers published once for all

I want to inform about my business in a more visual manner with videos, audio and photo galleries

Why do your company/institution want from the web site? What are the overall goals you want to achieve?

Other goals

If you have other goals for your future web site write them here

Targets

Describe the visitors you need for this site and why they should visit your site. It is essential to define the purpose for visitis before we can start defining how the web page should be structured on a more detailed level.

Target group *

Customers

Employees

Business partners

Suppliers

Authorities

Friends and family

Sponsors

Members

Who are the potential guests at my web site and why?

Other targets

If you have other prospective user groups that would visit the page, write them here

Target goals *

Relevant up to date information

Better overview and search facilities for the information

Better graphics and multimedia

2 way communication experience (forums, comments, web forms etc.)

Engaging in a community with other users

Chance to save money or make money

How would visitors of the site benefit from visiting your site. Usually it is easy to define a web page focused on own needs, but if you want visitors to re-visit the site and even be interactive and feed information. You need to define how to do that.

Other target goals

Describe other benefits visitors will have spending time visiting your page

Interactivity *

Users should be able to comment on articles and other web site contents

Users should be able to write to each other and discuss topics

Users should be able to write and save articles with text, images and other effects and publish these

Users should be able to answer questionnaires (like this one) and maybe even share results

Users should be able to upload files (reports, spreadsheets, presentations etc.) and share these with other users

Logged in user should be able to chat directly with each other

What type of interactivity with the users would you like?

Other interactivity

If some of the interactivity features was not present, what other interaction would you like?

Web site description

These are questions that more define how much information the web site will include and what type of material you need for the web site.

Size

If you wanted to put your total amount of information material on the web page into a book, how many pages would that book end up being. Material is products, product groups, information pages, employees, users, departments, etc. you want to describe. Try to detail the information types and the number of information

Security *

Users should be able to register online and then will have rights to communicate

Users should be able to register online, you will then accept the users and then they will have rights to communicate

You register all users yourself and then they will have rights to communicate

User should be able to register other users

Only certain machines (IP numbers) should be able to log in

The system should be open for everybody even though they are not registered

When people create web pages the more user activity they open they more likely they are to be hacked or spammed. Make sure to create policies for the safety of the parts of your web page that has confidential contents or where users are involved. How would you like to secure the web site.

Other security

If the multiple choice security questions did not cover all your thoughts, please express the rest here.

Involvement *

My company will find contens like images, videos, audio and edit text themeselves

My company will insert all the contents above into the easy to use interface

My company will find the contents, but we want the web site developer to insert this into the web site

My company do not want to touch the web site, we will send maintenance orders and expect it to be performed

My company would like to see and accept changes of contents before it gets published

How much work would you like to put into your web site after it has been developed.

Other involvement

Are there any other information you would like to ad about the expected involvement in the web site

Tracking *

number of visits per page

number of visits geographically

number of users signing up

user patterns, what visit path is most common

Turnover from ordered items

How do you plan on tracking web site activity

Other tracking

If you have other figures that you would like to track, please indicate them here

Files for background information

Please upload file with background information if needed

Your information

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Your name *

Please type in your name

Email *

Please write email address, so I can get back to you

Current web page

If you already have a web page you would like expanded in functions please write the URL here

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