Wapose Medical Services Inc.

Description:

Wapose Medical Services Inc. is a 100% aboriginal company that was created in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Fort McMurray in March of 2004. Wapose Medical is a progressive medical services company whose goal is to work pro-actively with a variety of industries such as drilling, pipelines, construction, and forestry to provide quality care to the sick and injured.

Objective:

Design and develop a website to help get exposure for Wapose Medical Services Inc. The goals have been to create a website that promotes the paramedical services that are being offered, to promote the companies Aboriginal roots, and to do so for all of western Canada.

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Requirements:

Some of the requirements for this website were have a splash page- an entry page that was both informative and visually appealing. The menu was asked to be a drop down menu, the website layout was to be a two column layout, and a contact page was asked to be included. A big requirement was to have the website completed before winter hit Fort McMurray.

Solutions:

The images used on the splash page were chosen because they were rich with information. Telling the visitor at first glance that Wapose Medical Services Inc. is:

1. Located in Fort McMurray
2. A medical services company
3. An Aboriginal company

The menu used is purely CSS, it will work flawlessly on all major standards compliant browsers. For other browsers JavaScript was used to enable menu functionality.

An online email form was added to the website to enable direct and immediate contact from interested parties.

Final Product:

Wapose Medical Services is satisfied with the website they have received. Their expectations, wants and needs were met.

Finally, the website has been highly optimized to make it as fast as possible to load for users with slower connections. The code is XHTML/CSS compliant and complies with the WCAG guidelines.