I ask Mel Booth, owner of Junkntique Antique and Collectibles, if I could use his business as my final project. He was agreeable to the idea. He had wanted a website developed but could never make connections with the right person to do it. I did make it very clear that I was a student and he would not hurt my feelings in the least if he did not want to use the webpage. They sell, buy and trade antiques and collectibles. They also have a booth at the Rose Bowl Swap Meet and set up down there once a month. Mel and Della are good friends of ours and after I ask to do this, I prayed that it would turn out ok. Well, I am finished and have it on my Geocities site and Mel wants to put it on his own site.

To begin my project, I typed the topics/questions from the Style Guide as a questionaire and gave them to Mel. He answered them and gave it back to me. Mel wants the site to promote his business sales/revenue. It could also give him exposure to the fact that he goes to the Rose Bowl Swap Meet once a month, and he can take items if someone wants to pick them up down here.

I called Mel and made arrangements to take pictures with my Sony Mavica which uses 3.5 floppies. I met Della there and we set up a shoot. We did the glassware and had fun doing it. Mel mentioned that he also had a Mavica and could do the other pictures. That was a great time saver for me. He would just give me the floppies and I would input them and set up the pages. We had to get together several times to get the right identification on the images, and the prices.

I found that I really enjoyed doing the webpage and I have learned a lot by working with a client. My ideas could be very different from his. I originally did a logo in blue. I took it in and Mel ask if I could do gold lettering on dark green background with burgundy border. I said I could try. I used an image to do the logo, and the site used 3 (9) letter color coding, and I never could find a color chart to show the colors. I had to play around and experiment on the colors. I created one and took it in to Mel. He liked it. The gold is not quite gold but looks "antique".

Mel wanted thumbnails used and I think they turned out pretty well. We were able to get quite a variety on the toy and advertising pages. I was running really short on time and did the glassware and primitives in a different format, not quite as time consuming. I probably could have spent more time and cropped the pictures and it would have looked nicer, but the days were clicking off on the calendar.

I kept in close contact with Mel and Della and showed them the progress as I went along, and Mel would ask if something could be done or not, and I would work on it. I had him do a final proof reading on the 10th and he found that (oops!!) I had really underpriced the telephone on the primitives page. I corrected it!!

I have a concern that if they put it online and it is not updated regularly, it will not be viewed more than a couple of times. I will not be available on a regular basis to update, but I have encouraged Mel and Della to take the Web Page Design class.

I think this page is a lot less cluttered than some antique sites. They have so many links and are not sites that I like to navigate. I think Mel would like to have had his whole inventory on the site. He ask if that was possible, and I told him I really did not think anyone would navigate through a site like that, and updating would be a nightmare. There are many places in the Junkntique site where the phone numbers and e-mail addresses are available. Each page has a e-mail contact. There is also a Text form on each page that goes to Mel's e-mail for questions or comments.There is only one external link to Kovel's. I was hoping there would be several on-line appraisal or identifications sites, but I think they all want to sell the dealers books instead of putting it all online.
These are several antique dealer's website that I thought were interesting and very different.

• Roy' antiques in Australia
  
• An antique store in Maryland
  
• Red Lion's Antiques, A shop in England

I feel comfortable with the design and layout of the webpage and all my links work. It has been a great adventure in the world of Web Design and, wow, I'm one of the finishers!!! Thanks Debby, it's been neat.