Creating Web Sites

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Creating Web Sites

• Audience and Goals
• Who is the primary audience for the web site?
• How will you accommodate your audience
• in terms of their educational, professional,
• technological, situational, physical and
• cultural needs?
• What are your most important goals for the site?
• (informational, recreational, commercial,
• or educational, etc.)

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Creating Web Sites

• Content and Structure
• What are the specific items you need?
• How would you structure them?
• What technology will be used?
• How will you provide accessibility?

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Creating Web Sites

• Effective Sites and Pages
• Aim for simplicity
• Conservative background color
• Simple, short, and chunked text
• Good navigability
• Good links

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Creating Web Sites

• Page Design
• Page grids and Layout
• Page length
• Page titles, headers, footers,
• and headings

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Creating Web Sites

• Effective Use of Graphics
• Use GIF, PNG, or JPEG graphics.
• Avoid using graphic as links.
• Use at least 10-point font and
• familiar and sans-serif typeface

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Creating Web Sites

• Other features
• An FAQ Page
• An search engine
• A printable version
• A text-only version

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• Creating Web Sites
• Publish and Maintaining the Site
• Add new information
• Delete old information
• Test for link rot
• Solicit comments from users
• Ethical web site

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Questions?

• Online exercise
• Find any web site online you are interested in
  and
• critique it in groups in terms of its purposes,
  audience
• awareness, page design, accessibility, graphics,
  etc.
• Report your findings to the class in a well
  organized
• Manner.