Blog 3 – “World of Hopes”

For Blog 3 I will be designing a web site called “World of hopes” which will focuses on various treatments, events and training's,  and specialized  courses  for disable children’s which will help of their parents and will be also be helpful for institutions who adopted and looking over this disabled children’s. It will also provide information on symptoms for disability of child after his birth.

Children with disabilities are one of the most marginalize and excluded groups in society. Facing daily discrimination in the form of negative attitudes, lack of adequate policies and legislation, they are effectively barred from realizing their rights to healthcare, education, and even survival.

Estimates suggest that there are at least 93 million children with disabilities in the world, but numbers could be much higher. They are often likely to be among the poorest members of the population. They are less likely to attend school, access medical services, or have their voices heard in society. Their disabilities also place them at a higher risk of physical abuse, and often exclude them from receiving proper nutrition or humanitarian assistance in emergencies.

Target Audience

The target audience of this website is the parents of disabled child’s, Institutions running disabilities children’s and the general public. The website designed will be simple based and images oriented as it will be used by everyone (i.e. users and non computer users) that will help them to understand and get information access easily.

Characteristics of the audience

People using this website will be an

•  Both genders
•  Institutions
• Parents of this child’s and general public

As seen above the majority of content aimed in this website will be for an adult. This website specially focuses on the awareness of treatments for disabled children’s and for their education. The template design and colors scheme will be simple and clean rather than keeping it multipart.

As “World of hopes” is mainly for an adult, it is very important that there is strong consistency and usability throughout the site. There will be a navigation bar present at the top of each page. The navigation bar will consist of four sections, ‘Home’, ‘News and events ’, ‘Program’,  ’Treatments’, specialized clinics  and ‘Contact Us’. The navigation bar will be simple and easy to read, so that each section is clear and easy to find. I have included ‘Home’ in the navigation bar, so that the users will know how to get back to the page they were originally on without getting confused.

Blueprint:

Blueprint Diagram.1

This blueprint diagram demonstrates roughly how many pages will be in the website, and how users would navigate throughout the site. The main point of entry to the site is the main page. Almost every page of the site is accessible from the home page, this is because there will be a site wide navigation bar that provides contextual links to each page. Links such as ‘back’ should not need to be used because of the navigation bar. The structure of the website is hierarchical and the hierarchy is rather shallow for ease of use and navigation. The ‘Treatment’ section has been modularized, so that the blueprints are not too crowded. The separate, modularized Treatements section can be seen in Blueprints Diagram 2.

Blueprint Diagram .2

Wireframe:

To present the idea of how the site would look some simple wireframes were created first, and then a rough preview was drawn up. First I designed a basic wireframe, before adding some content to further present the design of the page.

This is my wireframe for the home page

Following are the wireframe for the various navigation tab options for the website ' World of Hopes'

Metadata matrices:

Vocabulary	Description	Examples	Maintenance
Child Development	Provides with the information of various symptoms related to disability after/before child’s birth	Growth before birth, First year of life, Second to Fourth year of life, fourth year of life onwards	Easy
Disorders	The information on various types of disorders is provided here	Mental retardation, autism, Arthrogryposis, Muscular atrophy	Moderate
Commonly used treatments	Basically non dangerous/risk treatments done under specialized doctors	Botox therapy, Use of medicine, Phenol nerve therapy	Moderate
Rarely used treatments	A risky treatments which can also include surgery	Orthopedic surgery, Stem cell therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy	Moderate
Therapy	Includes different types of therapy for disables	Intrathecal Baclofen therapy, phenol nerve therapy	Moderate
Specialized Clinics	Includes contact details of various specialized doctors and clinics for disables	Orthopedic doctor, muscular atrophy doctor	Difficult
News and events	Mentions various news and events going around	Special events, symptoms and cause	Difficult
Page Type	Type of site page	Homepage, News and events, program, Treatment, Specialized clinics, Contact us	Moderate

Controlled Vocabulary:

The vocabulary used throughout the site will be kept simple so that it can be understood by many different age ranges and socio-economic backgrounds.

Id	Accepted term	Variant term
1	Programs	Courses
2	Disability	Disorders
3	Therapy	Remedial treatment
4	Rarely	Uncommon
5	Specialized	Particular