1. Team 8 Capstone Project: Online Musical Instrument Store Andrew Szewczyk Gabriel Chaney

2. Agenda Purpose Advantages Progress Design Rationale Status

3. Project Purpose Construct a professional website for a small business –Accessible –Robust –Sleek/eye-candy Making an already successful thing more successful

4. Project Purpose (cont’d) Learn something new –Web development Artsy & technical

5. Project Advantages Gabe knows the small business well! –Inventory –Standard & non-standard customer needs –Standard & non-standard employer needs Drew knows mobile devices well! –Worked at Intel 7 years One major project was a mobile device

6. Project Advantages (cont’d) Industry mentor is experienced –Co-owner of web development business: customerfunding.com –Web developer –E-commerce –(Is a classmate!)

7. Project Goals 3 Overall Goals in Order of Importance 1.Implement a web-based database allowing customers to browse inventory via PC/Smartphone/PDA 2.Implement a hardware/software solution to host website and database 3.Implement a shopping cart and ordering system for the website

8. Project Progress HTML & CSS –Preliminary design work Color scheme, photography, & logo Page layout Navigation –Need more layout ideas –Need more cross-browser research & testing Including mobile device functionality

9. Project Progress (cont’d) LAMP Progress –Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP installed on a PC –Currently evaluating Apache for web hosting –Started MySQL database design Entity-Relationship diagram –Need to research PHP

10. Project Progress (cont’d) Database ER Diagram

11. Rationale for Design LAMP solution is a free web-server that gives developer full control over environment –PC Hardware ~$1500 –Internet Connection $45 and up per month –Domain Registration $2-10 –Additional $3-15 per month for hosting plans Potential small business opportunity Dual functionality of web pages –PC functionality –Mobile device functionality

12. Project Status Job DescriptionCurrent StatusTentative Finish Date LAMP InstallCompletedFebruary 11 Apache ConfigurationStartedFebruary 26 Domain RegistrationTo-DoFebruary 28 LAMP Go/No Go DecisionTo-DoMarch 11 Database DesignStartedMarch 12 MySQL ConfigurationStartedMarch 26 Instrument Inventory PicturesStartedApril 1 Basic front-end for websiteStartedApril 15 PHP ScriptsTo-DoApril 15 Advanced front-end for website StartedApril 29