====== Web Site Requirements ======

There are no particular constraints on the form that the micromouse web site should take, provided that it satisfies the minimum features listed below. You should, however, aim to provide an attractive and easy to use site. Please take care with issues of good web design such as //accessibility//. This is easiest to achieve if //standards// are used. 

===== Web site hosting =====

Each micromouse web site will have a web site hosted on ''eespectre.swan.ac.uk''. The webserver is a SuSE Linux server running Apache, PHP and the MySQL relational database -- that is [[wp>LAMP_%28software_bundle%29|LAMP]].

For ease of development we recommend that you use a [[wp>Content_management_system|content management system]] (CMS) and based on last year's experience we would recommend use of [[http://drupla.org|Drupal]] which is written for the LAMP platform. 


===== Web site structure =====


Each web site will have a //public// and a //private part//. 

The //Public Part// **must have**: 

  * A //home Page// introducing your mouse to the world. 
  * A //team page// introducing your team to the world 
  * A //news page// giving latest progress reports and items of interest. 
  * //A project planning// section which shows how you plan to tackle the development of your mouse and its web site. There should be a minimum of a [[wp>Gantt_chart|Gantt chart]] and a list showing what skills your team members have and who is doing what. 
  * A //public documents// section which should include all design documents, hardware experiments, test results, etc. 
  * Team and individual web logs 

The //Private Part// **must**: 

  * Be accessible only to members of your team and the assessors 
  * Provide access to an upload site for users to upload documents (e.g. as a web folder using WebDAV or as an FTP upload site).

===== Extra features =====

You may in addition provide additional features to aid team collaboration. For example, you might consider providing: 

  * Wiki 
  * Bulletin board/forum 
  * Web mail
  * Group chat 
  * Project management tools
  * Source code management and issue tracking
 
 
Note, there are many public domain and open source packages that you can use to provide these features. It is also acceptible to link external services or the [[http://oremi.swan.ac.uk|Oremi]] system into your web site to provide some of these features.

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