Title: Web Page Template Design
1Web Page Template Design
EDT 6040 June 19, 2001 David Nolker, CEC,
CCE dnolker_at_dtcc.edu www.dtcc.edu/dnolker Creat
ed June 19, 2001
2Why a standard format?
- Comfort zone
- Instruction friendly
- Time saving
- Cost saving
- End user friendly
3Faculty Needs Assessments
- Would having a Web site make you a more efficient
instructor if your assignments and syllabi were
on the Internet? - Should additional courses and design resources be
available to help you publish assignments of the
Web? - Would having online access allow you to
incorporate project-based learning?
4Faculty Responses
We all ready have enough to do! Why more work?
You got to be kidding! Well ok if I dont have to
work too hard and I can stay in my comfort Zone.
5Web Design Tips
- What are your goals?
- Who is intended audience?
- Every Web page needs
- An informative title
- Authors identity
- contact information
- Creation and/or revision date
- Link to home page
- Organizing Information
- Visual Hierarchy
- Design Considerations
- S C I B (simple and consistent is best)
- K I S S
Source Lynch, P.J., Horton, S (1999) Web Style
Guide Basic Design Principles for Creating Web
Sites. New Haven Yale University Press.
6Web Page Style
- Instructional age specific
- The younger the intended audience, use more fun
graphics - The older the intended audience, use more
sophisticated the graphics
7Web page Example
Delaware Tech Curriculum page
8Biggest Obstacle?
- Having necessary computers
- Basic training
- Deciding on format
9Thank you!
- For a copy of this presentation or any
information, please be invited to access
www.dtcc.edu/dnolker