You are a company that specializes in designing websites. In teams of three or four, write a formal report of no more than 22 pages following the report format and writing style we’ve discussed.

Subject of your report: you have been commissioned to analyze two or three websites based on one of the following three scenarios.

1. G ive suggestions for the design of a new website for an organization of your choosing, based on two (if you are working in teams of three) or three (if teams of four) websites in the same line of work as the website you have been asked to design. That is, the new website will be a combination of the two or three sites, picking the best features of each. For example, you could design a website for a new minor league baseball team based on the best elements of the websites of two or three other minor league teams.

2. P ick two or three websites (depending on the size of your team) to cite as references in a brochure for a hospital that is promoting a new procedure of your choosing (e.g., heart transplants, knee replacements, or laparoscopic surgery) and wants to offer helpful and reassuring information for potential patients.

3. Choose the winner out of two or three websites (depending on the size of your team) for an award as best website for that year in an industry of your choosing.

The maximum 22 pages will thus consist of six pages of front matter; no more than two pages of introduction and background; perhaps one page for a “Mode of Analysis” section

(if brief, this could be part of the introduction); an “Analysis” section of no more than two pages for each website (two or three websites depending on the size of the team), including all graphics and pictures; one or two pages for conclusions, and one page for recommendations. So far that’s about 16–

18 pages: six pages for the front matter, ten to twelve pages for the body of the report (assuming three websites at two pages each), plus three or four pages for back matter (e.g., appendices).

You will analyze each website based on three major criteria of your choosing

(e.g., reliable content, attractive presentation, ease of navigation).

As part of the exercise, design an imaginary survey (you don’t have to actually interview anyone, although you could) with concrete and specific questions to support your analysis. You should not have more than ten questions; five or six would be adequate. Put your questions into “Appendix A” and your raw survey numbers in “Appendix B.” Use the survey, in the form of tables and graphs, in the body of your report to support your conclusions.

As your subject matter, you can choose any industry: sports websites, business websites, government websites, university websites—you have a wide choice. The only limit is that the websites must be in the same industry—you can’t compare museum websites with baseball websites. Other than that, you are free to make up any details you need to make your report more realistic.