Steps for Web Design

 

Web Site Design

Steps

Steps for Web Design:

  1. Decide who your audience will be.
    • The users' knowledge and past experiences will vary from novice to advanced.  Your site should be able to accommodate a wide range of skills and interests.
    • Are you creating for other teachers or students?

      •  
  2. Gather all information you will present on your web site.
    • You should have everything you need ready to go.  That includes text, graphics, other elements you plan to place on your web pages.  Remember as you prepare, if you put something on a page, it should have some purpose.

      •  
  3. Choose an appropriate metaphor or theme as a design for your site.
    • A theme or metaphor is a good way to arrange your web site.
    • Try to choose a theme or metaphor that makes sense to the content.

      •  
  4. Decide on a navigation scheme. (see Web Site Stucture)
    • Will it be linear or nonlinear?   Web pages offer a new way of presenting material.
    • Whichever method of navigation you use, make it consistent.

      •  
  5. Break up your information into useful-sized chunks.
    • Limit yourself to two or three new ideas per page.
    • Avoid long-winded paragraphs on web pages.
       
  6. Design each page.
    • Plan ahead.
    • Once you have gathered all of the materials you need, it is time to begin.

      •  

    Introduction to Netscape Composer

    Intermediate Netscape Compose

    Using Macromedia Dreamweaver to Design a Curriculum Web
           

  7. Publish your pages.
    • To publish your site's pages you can FTP.
       
  8. Evaluate your site.
    • Have other teachers browse your site and offer feedback.
    • Compare it to other schools' sites.

      •  

            Check your work

  9. Test your site.
    • After publishing your site, browse your site.
    • Check for accurate links.
    • Check for accurate information.

      •  
  10. Revise and update your site.
    • Editing and updating are part and parcel of publishing your web site.
    • Remember to record when your site was last updated on each page.

11. Publicize your site.

Yahoo
Lycos
Excite

  • The above links offer locations to let the world know that your site exists.

 

     

 

Steps

 

Originally developed by Sheila Edstrom, John Lyman,and Russ Revzan last revised and modified 5-3-01 by Esther Pullman

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The contents of the Web Institute Web Site, including the On-Line Curriculum, Web Tank, and Session Notes, are Copyright 1999-2001, Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago. No one may print, copy, or otherwise reproduce these materials without the express written permission of the Director of the Web Institute for Teachers or the Dean of the Graham School. All rights reserved.