Designing Effective Web Sites
Ten
Steps to Success:
- Plan for your audience
- appropriate images and links
- reading level (amount and sophistication)
- instructions (specific or detailed)
- ease of use (navigation)
- interactivity appropriate to user level/subject matter
- Gather all information you will present on your site
- elements (graphics, images, movies, icons,etc.) should
convey content and purpose of the site
- Choose an appropriate visual theme or metaphor
- gallery
- magazine./newspaper
- classroom interior
- highway/journey/safari
- Determine your navigation scheme
- linear/non-linear
- text or icon-based
- bread crumbs?
- Break up your information into manageable chunks
- put the right amount of information before the
user
- organize
- sequence
- create a concept map (Inspiration ®)
- Create the site structure and consistent tools for
navigation within the site
- Frames vs. Tables
- plugins and other external resources
- level of sophistication
- entry/exit points
- site map
- Publish your site
- Test your site
- Maintain, update, revise your site
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