Building the site

I have to decide

-Where to get content from
-Which platform to use as a user interface, and how to build it
-The look and functionality of the site

I decided to get content initially from http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes which is a database of thousands of free to use recipes as i will not be infringing any copyright laws. The recipes themselves are family orientated, and the site is full of ads which funds it. There is already a community built around it with membership and chat functions.

I am going to make it into a website, considering the audience of single mothers who are less likely than other social groups to have smartphones. If i do widen my audience (and i believe it woud be relevant to other groups), i could make it into an app.

I am going to build this website using dreamweaver and MySQL which we are learning on the computing part of my course. Currently i don't have the know-how to integrate a database into a website, so i am looking online for tutorials. For the minute i am going to use a very short list of perhaps 3 recipes to test out the technical side of the website, and make it very simple, having only the functionality for a user to input a single ingredient; no time information or other constraint, and have the program output a recipe. I know how to ask a database to search for a word within a block of text so far.

The look and functionality of the site will be extremly basic in the prototype which i will use a function test, and will also do a focus group with it to see if it is actually relevant.

Branding: I have so far called it 'dinnermate' and designed a basic logo, and will probably stick with the name as it's very simple and self-explanatory.