About Us

A: Documention of the Development Process

Selecting a company was the easy part, deciding what key elements needed to be incorporated required a bit more thinking. Since carpet sales is done in person, I knew there wouldn't be a big need to showcase or even attempt to sell anything on the web site. The web site's goal is to drive customers to the business. I wanted to present potential customers with some basic information, then allow them to come to brick and mortar store or allow them to reqeust an inhome consulation.

B: Defence of the Final Product

I wanted a web site that had just the critical elements to the business of carpet sales. The goal of the main page is to grab the viewer's attention and give them a quick overview of products and services offered. The DESIGN SERVICES page tells the users a bit about the inhome consulation and gives them a forum to fillout to request a meeting with someone. The CARPET and RUGS page maintain a very similar body in that both had text about the respective product offering followed by a YouTube video. The CONTACT US page instructs the visitor on how to contact the comapny. I also incorporated a convinent map. Lastly, the ABOUT US page is normally reserved for historical information about the company- but instead is where I have this information.

The menu needed to be present on all pages, and needed to be consistent. I spent a lot of time working with the CSS to make it look the same across all pages. Below is a snipped of the CSS as well as an explination of each line:

• Define the class name:
  • .menu {
• Sets the prefered font to Arial plus two backups should the compuer not have Arial:
  • font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
• Color the background to a dark grey:
  • background-color: #676767;
• Sets the font size:
  • font-size: 22px;
• Defines a border color around the cell, and sets the line width:
  • border: 2px solid black;
• Center the text in the cell:
  • text-align: center;

For the design, I wanted something was the easy to read and had colors that complimented each other. Through all pages, I maintained the same header, menu, and footer. I elected larger fonts and the contrasting colors to ensure people young and old can easily read the page. I programmed hyperlinks so that when someone hovers their mouse over them, they'll turn red. I also spaced everything out so it should appear nicely on all browsers- including mobile browsers. I incorporated videos to keep the user engaged on a couple of pages, plus I included an interactive map from Google Maps.

C: Opportunities for Ipprovement and Growth

I would like to incorporate more pictures of the products being sold, as well as a gallery of the projects being installed. With social media as big as it currently is, I would also like to figure out a creative way to incorporate social media into the web site.

Also, I'm not too happy with Geocities as the host. I've had trouble with some graphics- for example at the bottom of my page I've included various social media logos, for some reason the Twitter logo wouldn't display. I was able to browse to it in the /images folder but when I'd click on twitter.png Geocities would tell me it couldn't find the file. I renamed the file to tweet.png and everything worked just fine. I also had to swap out one of my photos on the main page bacuase Geocities would only render about 1/2 the photo.