From Homeroom to Home Page: Web Publishing for Educators
  Greetings,

I wanted to thank you for an enjoyable session yesterday afternoon. Your eagerness to learn, your questions, and your patience were appeciated. I hope that the session was of value you to you. Below are some notes from the session and also some links to web sites that you might find useful. I look forward to working with you again!

-- dave --

The
Presentation

 In thinking through this presentation yesterday (as I drove home) I've had decided to regroup the items on planning and implementing your web pages. I hope that this helps you in your web building endeavors.
  Planning Your Web Site
Goals
Audience Who are your customers? Whom have you traditionally served with regard to information? What are their backgrounds? and how well do they use information?
Objectives The objectives of your web site should NEVER be to publish information. Your objectives are directly tied to your customers. How do you want to effective the behavior of your customers? How do you want to help them make decisions? How do you want to effect their thinking on a certain subject? etc.
Strategies
  • Identify the information that will help you accomplish your goals.
  • Decide what formate the information should be presented in (tabular, prose, graphs, images)
  • Examine how the information will be converted from it current format to the desired format and into HTML.
  • Identify staff and responsibilities.
  • Establish timelines and schedules for maintanence
Implementation
  • Build the web site
  • Promote the web site
  • facilitate feedback
  • adapt and evolve

Some Links

  
  Web Pages That Suck - learn good web page design techniques by looking at bad web page design.

Webmaster Reference Library - comprehensive reference for HTML authors and webmasters, the WMRL has carefully selected and annotated web sites plus original articles about the art of web site creation.

12 Design Decisions Your Organization or Business Will Need to Make - An interactive article designed to help small business people make correct design decisions the first time. Returns an e-mail copy of decisions made.

Common Problems in Web Design - ...and how to avoid them.

TuCows

 
  Good luck on your endeavors and, again, I look forward to working with you again!