Design - continued.....

Browser Compatibility

Being a public website, it is likely that people will access the website using a range of different browsers. The website therefore has to be able to support the most popular browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape.

Search Engines

Marketing the website when it goes live is crucial. A request was posed by ABC was make the website appear high up in the major search engines. The first step was to register one's website with the major search engines such as google, yahoo. Appropriate Meta tags would also be used when trying to perform this task, for the Meta tag 'keywords' used to be looked for by search engines. Most current search engines however do not search there due to people entering vast amounts of text in the Meta tags so as to make their website appear high up in the search engine. The main aspect of the site that would enable it to be high up in the search engine's rankings is the content of the site, for the crawlers would visit a page and download the content. It is therefore necessary to have very specific content.

The Internal System

As discussed in the analysis, an internal system would be required to update the website. There would be two levels of user. The standard level would just be able to update the site and change their account details. The highest level would be able to perform administrative actions within the internal system, such as add, remove and view all users and clear the feedback table. The interface would have the same colours and style of menus as the website to maintain consistency.

The best way this could be implemented was by using a database. The text was be stored in the database and displayed on the screen within HTML tags. That same database would also be linked with another web based system to act as a front end which would be placed on ABC's intranet.

This architecture would be insecure however, as the database would be stored on the ISP's server. ABC would consequently have to access it through the Internet. It would therefore be necessary to have a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection, which would encrypt the data making it unreadable to potential hackers. A UML deployment diagram in below figure shows the architecture of the system.