PROBLEM SUMMARY
•In theme marketplace, there are many solutions available for different problems. But one major problem is lack of user manual or user guidelines. Solution of this problem is still not present in marketplace.
•When a user downloads theme, there are no guidelines available. Moreover steps are not given to facilitate user in developing website using theme. New users are not aware of which demo to install and which demo to use.
•Some people don’t have enough knowledge to develop website. So in this project, we are providing step by step guidelines to users for making a website with our theme.
ABSTRACT:-
•We are developing multipurpose theme which means a single theme which can be used in every niche like Business, Portfolio, Blog, etc.
•Users can optimize their website easily in all categories.
•We have design this theme in a form of SEO friendly so user can easily optimize pages & post for ranking purpose.
AIM & OBJECTIVES
AIM: To develop multi niche (multipurpose) responsive theme with additional feature for beginner guideline on wordpress dashboard.
Objectives:
Responsive Design: This is an approach to design website aim at crafting websites to provides an interaction experience & optimal viewing – easy read and navigate with a min of panning, resizing & scrolling- across a different range of all devices. (From desktop monitors to mobile phones).
Social Sharing Features: User can Share the post and Webpages in social media website Like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Etc.
Auto Upgrade and Support: Theme will be auto upgraded and live support can be given by us.
Plenty of Widgets: Lots of widgets are provided by us like recent post, auto post, and focus keyword
Theme Customization: User can customize theme like adding plugin, slider, live chat, auto scroll Etc.
Retina-Display Ready: This is new technology which make image sharper on every device. It will convert any image into clear high definition.
PROBLEM SPECIFICATION
We are facing so many problems when developing our projects. we are defining theme in a raw. Followings are statistic of problems:
1.Responsive Design: This is an approach to design website aim at crafting websites to provides an interaction experience & optimal viewing – easy read and navigate with a min of panning, resizing & scrolling- across a different range of all devices. (From desktop monitors to mobile phones).Here, I have listed problem with non-responsive sites being access by tablets & smart phones. (Difficulty in navigate, Images not fit on screen, Requires much scroll of page, pinch and zooming to get, )
Responsive site design allows your site to get adapt to whatever device its being used to viewed in. So we have to maintain same layout in small device as compare to desktop.
2.Browser Compatibility: Our theme must be same on every browser. It is too difficult as multipurpose layout. So we are strictly follow’s the standard format rules in coding to get it work on cross browser.
3.Numerous Layout with Plugins.
4.Various Sidebars.
5.Different Content Types.
PRIOR ART SEARCH (PAS)
Patent No: US 7028262 B2
Application Number: US09752120
Title of Invention/Patent: Method and system for designing a theme and associating it with a collaboration space user interface
Summary:
Main objective of this invention is to improve look & feel of the website with the use of theme. It makes website more dynamic, interactive & user friendly. Using collaboration space user interface, a theme is defined & associated. A theme includes multiple predetermined set of files in it. It may include predetermined set of files for cascading style sheet. It may contain set of layout files. There are different types of layout available in layout files. Batch layout determines content and layout of skin components. It includes table of contents, tool bar, logo, action bar and page content skin components.
Using themes makes our website more interactive. Contents of the website can be arranged in different layouts. Themes makes website more dynamic. This theme contains set of layouts. There are five types of layouts available in theme. Different types of layout are post page layout, page layout, . Cascading Style Sheet contains two types of style sheet i.e common style sheet and bootstrap css to make it responsive. Common style sheet determine color, font, element position.
PLAN OF WORKS
Followings are steps of our plan:
1. Discuss the layout design.
2. Research the whole criteria of our layout.
3. Study about Search Engine friendly standard layout.
4. Develop canvas on the basis of requirement tools and procedures.
5. Develop design according to canvas.
6. Implement design into working model.
TOOLS REQUIREMENT
There are some basic tools which are used to develop multipurpose theme.
• Frontend: Php
• Backend: Mysql (Phpmyadmin for Database Management)
• Editor: Notepad++
• Server: Wampserver
• CMS: WordPress package
EMPHATHY CANVAS:
USERS:
• Admin
STAKEHOLDERS:
• Authors Comment,
• Moderator
• Web Developer
• Registered User
• Web designer
• Editor Staff etc.
ACTIVITIES:
• Creating Pages
• Defining Links
• Managing Themes
• Creating Categories
• Managing Plugins
• Moderating Comments
• Managing other tools
• Writing and Editing Tools
STORY BOARDING:
HAPPY:
Once Martin, a CMS Theme Developer had a great knowledge of developing different types of themes. But Martin does not know where to utilize his knowledge. One day while surfing net he find that there was a great demand of CMS theme development. So he decided to build new themes and sell it into the theme market place and earn money. Martin gets very HAPPY from this.
HAPPY:
Once there was a content maker, namely “Johnson”. He was very good at his work. His work was to write articles and to put it.Johnson want to develop a website but he did not have any knowledge about coding. Then after some days Johnson take advise from consultant. The consultant refer Johnson to use multipurpose theme. Then finally Johnson use cms theme and develop a efficient website and becomes HAPPY.
SAD:
There was an experienced website developer Alex who have knowledge of different programming language like VB.NET, Java and other. But one day he finds great demand of cms themes and it required PHP skills. Alex did not know about PHP.Therefore he felt very SAD.
SAD:
Kelvin is a content maker and also comment moderator. One day he think for designing a website. But the problem for kelvin is that he want customization in website. So he needs to hire a web developer or designer. For hiring of the designer, large capital is required. Kelvin can’t afford such a cost. Therefore he felt SAD.
IDEATION CANVAS:
PEOPLE:-
• Student
• Contributor
• Visitors
• Developer
ACTIVITIES:-
• API Integration
• Focus Keyword
• Site Map Generation
• Google Analytic Verification
• Commenting On Articles
• Defining Tags
• Learning
• Web Master Tool Verification
• Developing
• Managing Social Network Accounts
• Meta Tag
• Social Sharing
SITUATION/CONTENT/LOCATION:-
• Home
• Office
• College
• Cyber Cafe
• MNC’s
• University
• Schools
• Research Centres
PROPS/TOOLS/OBJECTS/EQUIPMENT:
• Networks
• Support
• Security
• Ad-Ons
• Plugins
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CANVAS:
PURPOSE:-
• To provide simplicity
• Front End Interface
• No coding required
• Publish with ease
PEOPLE
• Student
• Engineer
• Blogger
• Developers
PRODUCT EXPERIENCE:
• Easy upgrade and installation
• Easy to customize
• Forum support
• Easy to share
• Fully documentation
PRODUCT FUNCTION:
• Publishing and editing content
• Media management
• Easy plugin system
• User management
• Front page: page and post page
• Making news, blogs, shopping
• Extend with plugin
• Modifying and deleting content
• Easy theme system
• Upgradations
PRODUCT FEATURE:
• Drag and Drop
• Search Engine Optimization
• Publishing tools
• Flexibility
• Slider
• Support Multi Language
• Powerful Theme option
• Custom Content Type
• Responsive Design
COMPONENTS:
Online Components:
• Linux Server
• WordPress Package
• Internet is required
Offline Components:
• WAMP and XAMP Server
• WordPress Package
• No internet is required
CUSTOMER REVALIDATION:
• Efficient Performance
• One of the best multipurpose theme
• Multiple themes
• Cost Effective
• Easy Installation
AEIOU FRAMEWORK:
ACTIVITY:-
1) FEATURES
• User Friendly
• Drag and Drop
• Multi-Language
•Powerful Theme Option
• Responsive Design
• Slider
• Multi-Purpose
• Bootstrap
• W3-Markup
• SEO Friendly
2) ENVIORNMENT
• Home
• Office
• School
• University
• College
• Reseach Centres
• Cyber Cafe
• MNC(MultiNational Companies)
3) INTERACTION:-
• Supervision
• Video Conferencing
• Live Chat
• Working Team Discussion
• Personal Interaction
• Interacting with product support
• Interacting with user for development
SUMMARY OF RESULT
• Main advantage of using themes is makes our website more interactive.
• It allows Contents of the website to arrange in different layouts.
• Themes makes website more dynamic.
• Another advantage is to improve look & feel of the website with the use of theme.
• To make website more dynamic and user friendly.
Usefulness with existing solutions available:
• Our project is very useful with respect to available existing solutions. The theme we have designed provides health menu which is very important aspect for all websites. Also the theme provides assistance menu which guides user to design website very efficiently. The theme designed consist of various unique features which facilitates users up to great extend.
Scope of project future work:
Our future Scope is to enhance below given features and to make them more interactive:
• Responsive Design
• Social Sharing Features
• Auto Upgrade and Support
• Plenty of Widgets
• Theme Customization
• Retina-Display Ready
• Maintain market standard
PRODUCT/SERVICES
In this Existing System there are no drawbacks. But we are adding new features which usually solve the problem which we had faced as a beginner in the past. Some of them are mentioned as under:-
• There is no Website health menu provided by any theme company.
• There is no assistance menu which guide a user to solve small issues.(Like plugins Widgets)
• None of the option about suggestion describes about website niche.
• User can’t get any idea what they need to make a perfect website and also which theme is beneficial for that website.
• None of the theme marketplace provide complete solution of website.
• Our theme is having a walkthrough where a new user can also create a website.
• Our project Multipupose theme provides website health menu and assistance menu.
REFRENCES
WEBSITES:-
• Wpmudev.com
• Wplift.com
• WordPress.org
• Themeforest.com
• Wpbeginner.com
• Learn.wordpress.com
• Codex.wordpress.org
• Developer.wordpress.org
• Teamtreehouse.com
BOOKS:-
• Head first WordPress.
• WordPress websites step by step
• Web Designers Guides to Wp by Jesse Friedman