Chidi's Hub: The Computing Blog

(Katemangostar, 2023) Software development comprises of various intricate procedures, which when carried out effectively, produce good results. This blog post aims at enumerating these steps, and explaining software development. "The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) refers to a methodology with clearly defined processes for creating high-quality software." (Altvater, 2023) According to Altvater, Software Development Life Cycle or SDLC is the process that produces the best quality software, with minimal costs, in the shortest possible time. (Altvater, 2023) There are six main SDLC methodologies, viz:  Agile Lean Waterfall Iterative Spiral DevOps    (Clouddefence, 2023) According to Robert Half, this SDLC model is the Spiral methodology. It provides an organized flow of steps which aid the firm or organization to produce good quality software in no time, which goes through testing and is soon ready for production use. (Half, 2023) These key steps include: Planning: T...

Rawpixel (2018) I have selected the Reverb and Sweetwater product pages as case studies for my comparison in this blog. Sweetwater Sweetwater (2023) Opening the product page of the Sweetwater website, one is greeted immediately with a large banner occupying the entire screen. While this may serve a reason to the developers of this website, it does come off as obstructive and an ineffective use of space. The customer (myself, for example) is not immediately met with the products that make up the product page. Sweetwater (2023) The products are distinctly split up into categories, as seen at the left side of the picture above. However, pricing and details of the location and promotional offers of the product are not immediately seen. This would affect customers who purchase with price as a determining factor. It does not reveal the complete or sufficient details of the product on the product page at a glance, and will thus, impede or affect the user experience of the customer. Reverb Rev...

  Rawpixel (2018) Creating a contact form was, for me, as crucial as any other part of the website creation process. While every goods or service-based website should provide services professionally, there are always bound to be complaints, enquiries, and customer feedback. Creating a platform where customers feel heard is the purpose I believe the contact form serves. My template had an already-generated contact form in place. It boosted my efficiency, because I just had to make some design corrections, then tweak and add more information to the form where necessary. The image above is the finished contact form on my e-commerce website. I included the map at the bottom of the page to enable the customer quickly locate the business by glancing through the map. I had the initial idea to create two compulsory fields for "First name" and "Surname". However knowing that most customers would prefer the focus being on their enquiries or complains, I made no field compulso...

Creativeart (2016) Despite being a computer enthusiast, and a tech fanatic for numerous years, creating a website was not something I had ever done, till my encounter with Wix. Creating an account was nearly seamless, with just my email address, and I had the option to create a website from scratch, or modify an already-existing template.  Wix (2023) Wix (2023) The Wix website had a plethora of sample templates, as seen above, but because the type of website I was interested in was an E-commerce website, I had to tailor my search accordingly.  As already stated in my website initial ideas, in a previous blog post, I intend on establishing a site for musicians of all skillsets, and interests. Making my website stand out more meant that I had to inspect and look out for the lapses or weaknesses in several notable music e-commerce websites, and try to rectify them. Some of the sites I visited to compare their home and product pages are Reverb and Sweetwater . Reverb (2023) Swee...

Storyset (2020) My E-Commerce website will be selling Musical Instruments and materials, including courses, and books.  The business model for my E-Commerce website is both  B2C and B2B. This is because I will offer sale not only to individual instrumentalists, musicians or music enthusiasts, but also to organizations such as churches, schools, theatres, concert halls and many more. These would make up my target market. The business name for my E-Commerce website is  Clef Musicals .  My tagline / slogan is :  "...w here sound meets soul". I researched the following competitor E-Commerce websites: https://www.intasound-music.co.uk/  https://www.techinabox.co.uk/  https://jordanguitars.co.uk/  https://just-music.edan.io/  https://iconmusicuk.com/ All of the aforementioned websites offer a unique range of products, however, lacking by way of product affordability, user-friendly design, and variety of products. These will be the points I will wor...

Creativeart (2016) Being a musician, it has always been a hassle locating new, used or affordable instruments and musical materials online. Usually, you would have to visit separate websites for this. However, my initial project idea for a website is to incorporate a solution to this problem into an all-inclusive website for musical organizations, such as churches or schools, and musicians themselves to be able to access both instruments and materials for learning easily and efficiently. Reference List            Creativeart (2016) Free photo: Web design concepts with blurred background , Freepik . Available at: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/web-design-concepts-with-blurred-background_902858.htm#query=website%20development&position=27&from_view=search&track=sph (Accessed: January 29, 2023).