Information Technology and Systems
QA Task 2008
Glen’s Wheels
This is a design and software development task.
Duration: 5 hours (approx.)
Glen’s Wheels is a bicycle hire company in Hobart. The customers are usually families or groups visiting the area as part of their holiday and they are allowed to hire bikes for a minimum of one day and a maximum of two weeks.
Although Glen’s Wheels is very successful, it has never had a corporate image. The following are identified as important to Glen’s Wheels, and your task is to complete them.
Note: The contact details for Glen’s Wheels are
· Argyle St, Hobart, Tasmania 7000
· telephone: 03 6234 5678
· fax: 03 6234 5670
· email:
· web: www.glenswheels.com.au
(a) Glen, who owns the company, would like a logo to be produced but he does not want the name of the company or its initials to appear anywhere in the logo. He has found a picture of a wheel that he would like to use as the logo but it is not very clear. The picture is called “wheel.gif”.
(i) Sharpen the image of the wheel.
(ii) Currently the logo has yellow and red areas that are unnecessary.
Remove these areas so that when the logo is imported into a web page, or another document, only the wheel and a small white border will be seen with no extra blank space.
(iii) The white space between the spokes and around the edges of the wheel needs to be made transparent.
Sonia (the marketing manager at Glen’s Wheels) has decided that Glen’s Wheels needs a website as part of the marketing strategy. She has researched some other websites and has produced a set of requirements for the website:
The website must have the following pages:
· Home page with
o logo
o company name
o contact details (as above)
o links to all the pages below
o a link to ‘Bicycle Australia’, and possibly another bikes website
Cont’d …
· Different types of bikes for hire including photographs of each one
o male mountain bikes for 1.6m tall and above
o male mountain bikes for below 1.6m tall
o female mountain bikes for 1.5m tall and above
o female mountain bikes for below 1.5m tall
o racing bikes for all the same combinations as mountain bikes
o tandem bikes
o trailers
· Prices
o mountain bikes $20 per day
o racing bikes $24 per day
o tandem bikes $40 per day
o trailers $12 per day
· Routes
o this should show 4 different cycling routes available in the Hobart area including an option to download maps
· Activity Weekends
o this should have details of activity weekends for the next 12 months.
Each page must have a link that returns to the home page.
There must be a page or dialogue box that provides help on how to use the website.
Files for each page must be stored in a separate folder for that page, except the home page.
(b) (i) Using a diagram, design the overall structure of the website, showing how all the screens will link together.
(ii) Design the layout of the home page of the website including a design specification.
Do not use a computer for this part of the task.
(c) Produce the following web pages:
· home page
· different types of bikes
· routes
(i) Show evidence of the three web pages you have produced.
(ii) Using screenshots, show evidence of how you created the hyperlink from the home page to the routes page and from the home page to Bicycle Australia.
(iii) Show evidence of the file names used and the folders where the files have been stored.
The task will be assessed on these criteria:
C1 / *Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how real world information problems are analysed and solved.C4 / *Design and develop an information system
C5 / *Use and evaluate an information system
C7 / Plan, organise, and complete activities.
Note: This task is based on ICT course materials ©OCR2008
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