WIT 2003

A well designed web site begins with a solid and logical organizational foundation. Before storyboarding your web site in the planning stages, make an outline of how you envision your site. Choose one of the three basic structures below to serve as a guide in the web page design process.

According to the Yale Web Style Guide, there are some basic structures used to when building web pages. Four types are:

 

This is the simplest method for organizing your material as it follows a simple beginning to end sequence. This linear structure expects the reader to move through a set of material from start to finish. This module is built in sequential order.

 

Grids

A grid is a complicated web structure best suited for information which the reader has some previous knowledge.

 

Hierarchies

A hierarchical structure is probably the most practical type of design as web sites are commonly organized around a single home page.

 

Webs

A web provides a free flow of information. This structure is good for making full use of the hypertext capabilities of the World Wide Web.

 

 

Module Home

Intro

Rationale

Content Ideas

Organization

Design Steps

Web Site Structure

Tips

Resources & References

Teaching Guide

Task 1

Task 2