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Creating a Storyboard

Before you start to create a Visionary world, use a storyboard to plan and illustrate your ideas. For example, suppose you are a business analyst. The executives of a large sporting goods clearinghouse that distributes through the World Wide Web want you to answer the following questions:

Which manufacturers' products are selling and which are not selling?

Which manufacturers could not deliver their products on time and have large backlogs?

When do the backlogs occur?

What are the selling trends for each manufacturer?

All the data to answer these questions is available in the stores7 database. To effectively present the data, you decide to create a Visionary world. After you think about it for a while, you design a storyboard as a guide to help you visualize what to put in your Visionary world.

To create the storyboard, you design scenes, layouts, and ways to navigate between the scenes. For the storyboard, you use pencil and paper or computer-based tools, such as Microsoft PowerPoint or a Web authoring tool.

Here is a sample storyboard for the world you build with this tutorial. This storyboard was created in Microsoft PowerPoint as a single slide and saved as a GIF file.

As a way to show you what's implied by a storyboard, links were added to this storyboard. By clicking a link, you can navigate to four different graphics in the finished Visionary world. The graphics include Overview, Sales, the Husky Wear chart, and Backlog.

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