Developing Web Pages for Classroom Use

Steps for Design

1. Decide who your audience will be: are you creating for other teachers or students? Be sure to use the language and vocabulary of your audience.
2. Choose an appropriate metaphor or theme as a design for your site. This is a good way to arrange your web site.
   Try to choose a theme or metaphor that makes sense to the content.
3. Make a paper draft of your site and write down ideas that come to you as you are working. This also helps to keep track of resources you have gathered.
4. 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.
5. Decide on a navigation scheme. (This will be covered on the next page)
   Will it be linear or nonlinear? Web pages offer a new way of presenting material.
   Whichever method of navigation you use, make it consistent.
6. Publish your pages!
7. After publishing your site, browse your site. Check for accurate links. Check for accurate information.
8. 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.
   

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