Welcome to the Polk County High School 2010 eBusiness entry.
This site not only brings forward the information about the reunion, but it also contains a fully functional store that is powered by Paypal.
We used Paypal because it is one of the most trusted online shopping solutions based on security and customer satisfaction. We wanted to make sure that our audience would be safe while purchasing items from our store.
This site also includes a terms of use page that explains all legal safety information and conditions that are common in the eBusiness world including returns and customer satfisfaction.
This site was built on the principle that the target audience is an older generation. We wanted to keep the site simple and yet sophisticated in order to supplement the needs of our audience in a modern manner without causing problems.
In order to keep this site simple we wanted to make sure that our audience could enter and navigate the site with ease. This is why we included a secondary navigation system. We also wanted to be sure that our audience could read our website information so we set the font a little larger than normal for ease of reading. Another good thing about this site is that its less graphics and more css styling so that the pages load faster, since our audience will be likely using older computers and a slower internet speed connection.
If our assumptions are right about our target audience, then more than likely they will not be using up to date software. This is why we created a secondary option with the way the store works. The prefered way is to be able to just hover over the item to get its description, but it is using javascript to create the tooltips. To overcome this, users are also able to click on the picture to be taken to that items page that has the description.
This site is all about a simple yet effective shopping system that not only conveys our information, but gets it out to the majority of our target audience with relative ease.
Enjoy.
The 2010 PCHS eBusiness Team