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Derrick Millard Email: derrick.millard@hct.ac.ae Doug McPherson Email: douglas.mcpherson@hct.ac.ae HD1 Dubai Women’s College http://www.dwc.hct.ac.ae/tesolpresentations. Developing a Site to Present Materials Online TESOL Arabia 2005. Who we are:. Derrick Millard M.Ed. In ESL - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Developing a Site to Present Materials Online

TESOL Arabia 2005

Derrick Millard Email: derrick.millard@hct.ac.ae

Doug McPherson Email: douglas.mcpherson@hct.ac.ae

HD1 Dubai Women’s College http://www.dwc.hct.ac.ae/tesolpresentations

Who we are:• Derrick Millard

– M.Ed. In ESL– HD1 Webmaster with 4 staff divisions and 200 plus students

• Started on English web, teacher self-help and numerous projects• Certificates in Web Design

• Doug Mcpherson– M.Ed. majoring in instructional design

• HD1 English Webmaster • Certificates in Computing including MS Office Specialist, CNA

Basics of Web Design: Where Do I Start?

• Start with a PAD• Purpose

• Audience

• Design

Purpose

• Have to have a reason for designing it – What are you trying to do?

• Is it a site for documents? • A site for links?

– Without a purpose there is no reason for making the site

Audience• As important, if not more important, as purpose

– Who are you designing for? – What is their level of technical experience? – Are they familiar with websites and computers?

• Not tech savvy, then you need a simpler design • Dial up? If so less pictures

• It is your audience’s needs that you must consider, NOT what you want.

• Good purpose + good design – audience = NOTHING

Design (Part 1)• Only when you know purpose and

audience, you can consider design • Makes or breaks a site• Design differs but things to consider:

– Author:• Information on who the author is and how to contact?

– nb. spam– Currency:

• when was the page last updated?

Design (Part 2)– Color and Layout:

• Are the colors easy to read? Have you considered everyone in your audience?

• How many pictures?• How big are they? Remember more pictures = more

download time – (nb. Do not reduce size in FrontPage. Use a picture editor)

• Pages consistent?• Enough white space?• Readable and standard font?• Underlines?

Design (Part 3)– Navigation

• Where is the navigation? – Should be either top or left

– Bottom of long pages as well?

– No new ideas follow conventions

• Does every site have a link to home?• Are the links consistent throughout the site? • What pages are you going to link to? Internal? External?

• Can you move ANYWHERE in the site in 3 links or less?

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