WISDOM: A WEBSITE DESIGN METHOD BASED ON REUSING DESIGN AND SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Diederik Wortmann

INTRODUCTION Modern websites can be as complex as full-scale information systems

The development of these websites turns into large projects with many considerations

There are a number of academic methods that attempt to assist designersTwo difficulties:

Experience not taken into account Pre-existing software not taken into account

LITERATURE CONTEXT Relatively old website design methods exist

RMM (1995), OOHDM (1996), WebML (2000), some others

These methods are not used frequently in the website design industry Too specific to be used in general Limited consistency with practical design processes

No acknowledgement of newer methods is made

AUTHORSEtienne Cocquebert

University of Lille Nord de France

Damien Trentesaux

Christian TahonUniversity of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis

WISDOMGoals of WISDOM:

1. Guide the design process2. Propose pre-existing design solutions3. Facilitate the selection of pre-existing software implementations4. Speed up website construction

PHASE 1 Collect website requirements, considered input for all following phases

Define website context (Gnaho, 2010)

Figure 1: Website category selection

PHASE 2 Facilitates the design of the navigational menu

Outputs a set of menu items

PHASE 3 Helps the designer to organize data elements:

Navigation area Page content area News area etc

Outputs a graphic template that organizes page presentation

PHASE 4 Helps the designer to decide which software components will be used

Accepts a knowledge base of software components as input

PHASE 5For each menu item:

Decide content source of page Configure content source

Figure 2: WISDOM PDD

EXAMPLE MENU ITEMS Reconsider phase 2: navigation design

Facilitates the design of the navigational menu Outputs a set of menu items

Figure 3: Navigation menu model

QUESTIONS?

WORKS CITED Cocquebert, E., Trentesaux, D., & Tahon, C. (2010). WISDOM: A website design

method based on reusing design and software solutions. Information and Software Technology 52, 1272-1285.

Gnaho, C. (2010). Web-Based Information Systems Development-A User Centered Engineering Approach. Web Engineering, 105-118.