Web Development Profile
Mission Community Skills Centre

The Challenge

To create a comprehensive site detailing several program categories and their materials. Users of the site ranged from novice to experienced. The site needed to match graphically with a print publication released at the same time as the site. Deadline for the site was 6 weeks.

The Proposal

The web site proves MCSC is on the leading edge of technology by providing navigation intuitiveness and including advanced features such as dynamic rollover images, link highlighting, dynamic pages and a site-wide search.

The site features topic areas, such as Contact Information, Press Releases, and the Community Events Calendar. The site promotes the Skills Centre as an institute providing advanced technological training while being closely tied to the community. The community involvement encouraged by the site encourages new ideas in areas where the Mission Community Skills Centre can set their focus for new program development.

The Development

Developing the site architecture can be difficult at the best of times, and this site proved to be a challenge. With so much overlapping content it was easy to turn it into a surfer's nightmare of confusing links. The categories were already predefined according to a matching brochure publication. Taming all the content into categories was achieved by incorporating a second navigation tablet on the right of the window to help users define which page they were viewing and to help move about within each category.

JavaScript was used extensively throughout the site to generate current dates, rollover images, and manage the on-line event calendar. In all the entire site comprises of over 175 HTML files and 155 images. Development of the site was completed on schedule to meet the release of the print publication for the MCSC Spring 1999 advertising campaign.

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