Scripted Demo

A demo is a demonstration of your web site.  When your site is working
perfectly, you can show off all its features without a care as to
whether some part of the site is broken.  Because nothing is broken.

Early in the development process, the site will not be working
perfectly.  At this phase, you may be required to demonstrate the site
anyway.  Maybe your funding source wants to see what you have been up
to.  A scripted demo is one in which you can plan your words and moves
carefully so you do not accidentally fall into a part of the web site
that is not working.

What exactly do you have to show?  The main thing is the emotional
appeal of the web site.  You must convince the audience that your web
site is appropriate to the customers that you intend to draw.  Tell
about your customers.  Tell how you think they will react to your home
page.  Tell why you designed your home page the way you did.

Repeat this process for each of the other critical pages in your web
site.

At this point, your web site should have at least one example of each
type of page up and running.  You do not need CGI.  You do need blanks
that *look like* CGI.  But it is scripted.  You can always key in the
same information, and have the resulting pages hard-coded to look like
they did the right thing.  It does not have to actually run, but it
has to appear to run properly.

You need to demonstrate the home page and each of the other important
pages, including at least one content page.

You will be graded on completeness and emotional appeal.  Completeness
means that a customer can go all the way through a transaction.  Every
page is present and makes sense.  Emotional appeal means that your
judges think your customers will feel good about the site, and how it
works.

During the judging, members outside your team will evaluate your web
site in writing.  These comments will be turned in to the instructor,
who will use them in developing a composite grade for your site.  The
comments will then be give to you, so you can benefit from the ideas
and suggestions for improving your web site.