1. Student’s Page Discussion Building a Better website By…. Student’s Page Click to continue

2. Overview Why build a website? What should it feature? How should it be organized? What should you do to program it? In?

3. Overview (con’t) Thanks, sources Thanks, sources And more talking And more talking

4. Why build a website?

5. What should it feature? K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) General Ideas General Ideas Top- or Left-orientation Top- or Left-orientation A general menu A general menu Site map Site map Contact people page Contact people page Time, date and person on the last update Time, date and person on the last update Alternate text for the situations your site can’t be used to it’s full potential Alternate text for the situations your site can’t be used to it’s full potential

6. What should it feature? (con’t) Thing’s you should try to avoid Thing’s you should try to avoid Having many dead links Having many dead links Unless you stated that your site is of a certain view, stay away from all biases Unless you stated that your site is of a certain view, stay away from all biases Having tones of emails sitting on a site, especially with the “@” symbols Having tones of emails sitting on a site, especially with the “@” symbols FRAMES FRAMES ANY GARABAGE CODE ANY GARABAGE CODE

7. How should it be organized? Based on Based on category. Example: School Site category. Example: School Site need. See: student’s page need. See: student’s page Easy to get to the useful tools and favorite sites; especially contact and event sites Easy to get to the useful tools and favorite sites; especially contact and event sites Easy on the eyes, but not dull to come to Easy on the eyes, but not dull to come to Easy to maintain and to update Easy to maintain and to update Least important to user Basic Functionality Seen By a Few Seen by a More Most important to you Most Important to user Seen by most

8. How should it be organized? (con’t) Most important Middle ground Least import

9. What should you do to program it? First, make sure there is a person and/or a team responsible for the website Second, know you limits, ex: Memory in your Drive Third, Know URL’s you work under Fourth, have at least one site called “index” with a “.htm” or “.html”, so the explores will know where to go.

10. What should program In? What ever best fits you Each program has it’s own way to make short work of what you are looking to do. Some code gets inserted (even if not needed) because either the program or it’s programmer thought that code might be incredibly common, and there for builds in the code automatically

11. Please Send us ideas What other suggestions do you have?

12. Thanks To all who contributed To all who contributed To you for looking To you for looking

13. Sources 10 Tips for a better Website 10 Tips for a better Website http://developers.eversoft.com/article/web-design- tutorials/10-tips-for-a-better-website.htm http://developers.eversoft.com/article/web-design- tutorials/10-tips-for-a-better-website.htm Web Compliancy Policy Web Compliancy Policy http://www.oneonta.edu/technology/compserv/webacc ess.asp http://www.oneonta.edu/technology/compserv/webacc ess.asp Checklist to Evaluating Web Sites Checklist to Evaluating Web Sites http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/webcheck.html#top http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/webcheck.html#top