Nastracks Site Plan

Overview

Purpose

NASCAR's three national touring series go to over 30 tracks every season. All of these tracks come in different shapes, lengths, and sizes. Don’t you wish there was a place that was keeping track of all of this information in one place? That’s exactly what Nastracks.com is here for. Say goodbye to searching specific track information on each track’s individual website or wading through the clunky NASCAR website. Say hello to a one-stop website that has it all in an easy to use and simple interface. Find all the information you could ever need on all the tracks that NASCAR visits, with different pages for different track types to make searching quicker. With Nastracks.com, you’ll always know everything about the track for this Sunday’s race.

Audience

Our audience for this site ranges from novice racing fans that want to learn more about the many different tracks in NASCAR, to the hardcore fan for fact checking and verification. The audience has a wide age range of about 15-45 that has an interest in NASCAR racing. They are wanting to learn more or may be questioning how a bunch of oval tracks can be any different from each other. In general, our audience is for people looking for information and facts about NASCAR tracks.

Branding

Website Logo

Style Guide

Color Palette

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Typography

Heading Font: Roboto

Roboto is a great clean and modern font that is smooth and easy to read.

Paragraph Font: Roboto

Even Roboto's smaller and thinner weights are great for parahraphs that are easy to read and look good.

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Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR as well as its season opening event. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, IMSA, SCCA, and Motocross. The track features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5-mile (4.0 km) high-speed tri-oval, a 3.56-mile (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95-mile (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a 1,320-foot (400 m) karting and motorcycle flat-track.

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North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed on May 9, 2011.

Navigation

Site Map

Plan for site content

Why will people come to this site?

People will come to this site for information on the many different types of tracks that the three NASCAR national touring series (NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series) visit each year. People will come here because it will be easy and quick to find basic information about every track on the schedule, including tracks that are not still being run.

What questions will this site answer?

NASTRACKS will answer common questions that a interested fan of the sport would be wondering about a track that they don’t know about; including the track’s length, age, surface type, surface banking, location, seating capacity, and where to buy tickets.

What kinds of activities will visitors complete on this site?

Visitors to this site will mostly be here to conduct quick research or fact checks about the many tracks on the NASCAR schedule. Additional activities a user may participate in is browsing through the site to see what makes each track unique, or comparing different aspects of different tracks to see which ones are the longest, steepest, or oldest.

What information is necessary to use the site?

Little information is needed from the visitor to use the site effectively. The site will be laid out in a way that is simple to navigate with well-written descriptions for each category that will make it easy for even a racing-illiterate person to navigate the site quickly with little effort.

Why will visitors come to this site instead of others to get this information?

Users will come to this site because it is a purpose-built site for this topic specifically. Other sites that contain some of this information have it as a feature, rather than as the main focus. This will allow this site to show this useful information at the forefront. Because of this, it will be a easy-to-remember stop on the web that users can get to quickly without having to search through pages of other sites that have this information poorly organized or behind multiple clicks and menus.

Images

Images will play a large roll for the site. The background image will change for each track category, and will correspond with the image shown on the button for that category on the homepage. Images will be used from the embed function on Getty images, which allows for free non-commercial use of their images. Track layout images are found on the iRacing.com UI and are allowed by iRacing to be used non-commercially.

Information

The website is being built around short and sweet facts and easy to find information. Each page will have a short summary describing what that page consists of, with the track category pages also having quick facts about each of the tracks on it.

Content

Home

The home page will consist of a large banner image with the logo of the site centered on it. Below it will have a simple navigation bar, as well as some basic information about the site below. Below the banner and navigation bar will be larger buttons that will also link to the child pages, but will contain images and short descriptions of what characteristics places a track into that category.

Welcome to NASTRACKS. Your one-stop source for quick information about every track that NASCAR runs. NASCAR visits over 30 tracks per season. This site will help you keep track of what makes each one unique and exciting. Click on a category below to find information about a track you're interested in.

Images for the home page

Track Category Pages

The track categories will serve at the website’s child pages. These pages will ditch the banner image in order to show more information on the screen, but will keep the navigation bar and site logo for consistency and easy navigation. The track category pages will mainly consist of a list of the tracks in their respective category, along with an image of each track’s layout. Alongside the layout image will be quick facts about each track. These facts will mainly be short, numerical information like the information listed on the first page.

Intermediates

Intermediate tracks are longer than 1 mile in length, but shorter than 2 miles in length. These tracks feature high speeds and fast corners.

Images for the Intermediates page

Superspeedways

Superspeedways are tracks that are more than 2 miles in length. These tracks feature full-throttle competition with little to no braking. This makes for close, fast racing and arguable the most exciting racing the sport has to offer.

Images for the Superspeedways

Short Tracks

Short tracks are less than 1 mile in length. These tracks feature close racing with moderate to heavy braking in the corners. Short tracks are what NASCAR was built on, and many fans still hold them on a pedestal as the most entertaining tracks to watch.

Images for the Short Tracks

Road Courses

Road courses vary in length and feature both right and left turns. NASCAR has adapted its schedule in recent years to include more of these tracks than ever before. They feature many different styles of tracks that include elevation changes, tight corners, and fast straightaways.

Images for the Road Courses

Dirt Tracks

Dirt tracks are exactly what they sound like, tracks with a dirt surface. NASCAR's roots are on dirt. But with the rapid growth of the sport shortly after its inception, the tracks evolved and moved to asphalt. Recently, NASCAR has returned to dirt for a few select events.

Images for the Dirt Tracks

Feedback

Lastly, the NASTRACKS site will have a feedback page that will allow users to send feedback to the site creator via email. This will allow for suggestions of criticisms of the site for future features and ideas.

Send some feedback to the owner of the site! What would you like to see added in the future? Is there some incorrect information on the site? Let me know!

Images for the Feedback

Wireframes

Create three wireframes for your site. One for each page and list them here

Home

Welcome to the site, tells how to get places.

Track Category Pages

The five track category pages will all be laid out the same way. This exmaple shows the Intermediates page.

Feedback Page

Submit feedback for improvements/corrections to the site