- Page title.
- Spider image
- Quote on design
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I. Design Your Site. Outputs from this phase will be: List outputs from this phase.
II. The Design Phase - provide a summary of topics to be covered.
A. Design principles and writing guidelines.
- Design Principles. List website design principles.
a. useful.
b. have a purpose.
c. load quickly.
d. easy navigation
e. minimum graphics
f. use standard headers.
g. minimize text
h. use standard footers.
- Writing guidelines. List writing guidelines.
a. organize material into clear and logical topics.
b. subdivide each topic into sub topics
c. first page provide an a site overview.
d. brief introduction on each page.
e. use a clear, self-explanatory header.
f. paragraphs no longer larger than 5 to 7 sentences.
g. use caps/lower case style for headings and sub-headings.
h. same font, text size, and background color throughout.
i. same alignment (right, left. or center) for all pages throughout your site.
j. same writing voice.
k. don't use technical jargon
l. consult reference books for elements of style.
m. apply English class knowledge to writing for a Web site.
C. Writing tools. Add links to tools.
- Webster's Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Bartlett's Quotations
- Rhyming Dictionary
D. Top 10 Design Tips article. Addlink.
E. Page Outline. Create an outline.
F. Links. hyper-links and anchors. External and/or internal.
- LinkURL, format http://www.file-name.
- Links
- Collect external links, place in links file.
- How, up to author.
G. Images. Image files have .gif or .jpg (.jpeg) file extensions. List sites with image files.
H. Sound. Sound files have .mid, .au, .wav file extensions. Link to sound file search audio.
I. Headers. Banners, logos and buttons can be made on line. Or, custom made. List links.
J. Footers. Footers should contain site URL, author, e-mail address, date created updated.
Link to free footer.
K. Navigation. Site should have easy navigation. Link to generic navigation bar and "Go to
top" feature . Link to other ideas on navigation visit.
L. Feedback. Must include link for user feedback on each
M. Organizational Chart. Draw an organizational chart of site.
N. Create Your Pages. Create separate text files (.txt) for each page.
III. Ready for more? Link to create HTML (code).
Feedback graphic
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IV. Standard Footer.
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