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Web Site Design and Project Planning
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Process
Stage One: Conceptualization

All development and curriculum design decisions should be made with these questions in mind:
Who is your audience and What are your goals and objectives?

Audience

• Who is your user?
• What type of access will they have?

Goals and Objectives

• What is the purpose of your Web Site?
• What are your goals and objective?
• What do you wish to accomplish?
• How will you know if you have achieved your goals?
• What is the information that you wish to share?

Outline Content

• Choose a structure: Linear vs. Modular
• Story Board your Web Site
  • Plan your ideas on paper before you begin development on the computer.
  • Use whatever system you would like: charts, post-its, outline format.
  • Keep track of file names on storyboard- this will help when you start development.

Stage Two: Building Pages

• Gather resources: scan images, capture video, sound
• Use development tool to create pages
• Follow file naming rules:
  • Web page files must end it .html or .html
  • No spaces or special characters in the file names, ie: @, *, / . \ (you can use _ or -)
• Don’t use complicated directory structures.
  • Make a directory (or folder) for the course and put all files you will be using for your web pages in this folder. Breaking things into subdirectories (of folders) can cause problems with some of the simpler development tools such as Netscape Composer.

Stage Three: Testing

• Test and revise yourself
• Have others test your work

Stage Four: Load files on the Web

Stage Five: Share your Web Site with your Intended Audience

Stage Six: Ongoing updates

 

Useful Tools

Planning Sheets- pdf files

Planning Sheet 1

Planning Sheet 2

Planning Sheet 3

Planning Sheet 4

Planning Linear Approach

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