developing a site to present materials online tesol arabia 2005
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Derrick Millard Email: [email protected] Doug McPherson Email: [email protected] 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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Developing a Site to Present Materials Online
TESOL Arabia 2005
Derrick Millard Email: [email protected]
Doug McPherson Email: [email protected]
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?