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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm that content meets required standards
   • Take action to ensure that text-based content meets client needs and required style standards
   • Confirm multimedia-based content meets the business design standards or overall look of the website
   • Check that the mix between multimedia and text-based content provides the required level of interaction identified in the project brief
   • Test that content conforms to client expectations and technology
2. Confirm that technology supports content
   • Take action to ensure that the protocols required for multimedia content are available
   • Check and confirm that the bandwidth required to support the content is available
   • Check and confirm that servers support the content and levels of interaction
   • Check and confirm that plug-ins required to support content are made available
   • Test and confirm that compression techniques support delivery of content
3. Test content
   • Test and confirm that content displays as intended and according to business requirements in target browsers
   • Test with beta users that content encourages interaction and content interaction performs as intended and record results
   • Test and confirm that plug-ins download with a minimum of steps, complication and time
   • Test that interactive tools are available and provide the expected results

Required Skills

Required skills

communication skills to liaise with users on technical and content matters

literacy skills to ensure textbased content meets client needs

technical skills to

act on protocols required for multimedia content

manage file transfer protocols

undertake site testing

Required knowledge

applicability of copyright privacy and intellectual property to website development

common software compression algorithms and associated technologies

file transfer protocol FTP software protocols

internet protocols

server access security principles and procedures

server operating systems

streaming technologies

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package

Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	Evidence of the ability to prepare and integrate a mix of content for a website use correct streaming and compression techniques
Context of and specific resources for assessment	Assessment must ensure access to documents detailing organisational style guide or policies PC where software installation may be performed compression and streaming software internet connection live network network components hardware and software networked computers server and workstation hardware and software style guides and design brief technical documentation and installation manuals use of software currently used in industry vendor hardware and software components appropriate learning and assessment support when required Where applicable physical resources should include equipment modified for people with special needs
Method of assessment	A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge The following examples are appropriate for this unit verbal or written questioning to assess candidates knowledge of the technologies and associated protocols associated with website design direct observation of candidate managing FTPs and site testing review of the candidates active website
Guidance information for assessment	Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector workplace and job role is recommended where appropriate Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate and suitable to the communication skill level language literacy and numeracy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed Indigenous people and other people from a nonEnglish speaking background may need additional support In cases where practical assessment is used it should be combined with targeted questioning to assess required knowledge

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Content may include:	animation multimedia content, such as audio and video streaming sound files static graphics text-based documents.
Standards may include:	International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Australian Standards (AS) organisational standards project standards, found on Standards Australia website.
Client may include:	clubs external organisations individuals internal departments internal employees.
Servers may include:	application and web servers building environmental assessment (BEA) Weblogic servers email servers file and print servers firewall servers FTP servers IBM VisualAge and WebSphere Novell Directory Services (NDS) servers proxy or cache servers.
Requirements may relate to:	business network people in the organisation system.
Browsers may include:	Galleon Internet Explorer Konqueror Lynx Mozilla Netscape Navigator Opera Phoenix.
Users may include:	department within the organisation person within a department third party.

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