Proposal

Topic: Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine ( also called phytomedicine , botanical medicine and alternative medicine) is an interesting topic for many poeple all over the world . There has been a lot of studies and medical discovery on the benefit of herbs and food and how they can give us healthy life style. This project will study this topic and use it as a content for developing interactive inforamtion.

Objective  
Develop an interactive information about herbal medicine to be beneficial to anyone who is interested in this kind of medicine. 

Target audience 
The information is targeting adults between age 20 years old and above. Male and female who is looking for information about herbal medicine.

Delivery media and concepts' digital graphic
 
A blog will be developed and used to deliver the interactive information. The design of the blog will include graphics of plants and overall color will be green and brown since they are most appropriate to represent herbs.

Deign Issues and Treatment  
The development of the blog will consider some issues that are presented in the precedence study and will work in overcoming these issues. The design of the blog will follow the following points:
  1. Appropriate colors for the users' eyes and related to the topic which is herbs.
  2. Avoid scrolling down for more information by using web tools for example (paging- back to the top of the page link) where the user can click on the page number to go to next page for more information.
  3. Avoid viewing pictures in different pages to enlarge them by using the web tool (Light   Box).
  4. Navigation links will be consistent and appeared in all pages.

Deliver media interactive features
  Herbal medicine blog will allow users to
  1. Comment on the information writen.
  2. Reach social network sites and web search engines; like facebook, deliciousand stumble upon. 
  3. View videos about herbs. 
  4. User translation tool that is plugin with the blog.
  5. Search  the blog about certain information using google search.
  6. Talk and chat  through the blog (under one condition which is having google account).

Scope of Information  

The developed blog will present information about the history of herbs and their types. In addition , since there are thousands of herbs and natural food that could be used as medicine, this blog will only state the following herbs benefits Joint fir (Ma huang),Goldenseal, Aloe, Ginkgo, Ginger, Garlic, Dandelion and Ginseng. In the future, the content of the blog will be updated and more herbs will be added.

Constrains  
The main constraints to complete this interactive information development is the need for more time, which led for the decision of the scope of the project.
 

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