Step 2 - Design
Your Site.
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You should focus the design of your site on achieving the
results stated in your Website Plan created during Step 1. Next, follow the writing guidelines and design tutorial tips specified below.
Outputs from this step should be: 1) the background color, text color, link color, and visited link color and Website style you plan to use for your site; 2) the Web design tools you downloaded; 3) images to be used for each page; 4) a hand drawn organizational chart of your site; and 5) your Website Plan updated to reflect this information.
How to design your Website
Website
Design Tutorial. The use of colors, consistency, content,
graphics, navigation and Web style all work together toward
creating an effective Website.
Learn about Website design and you will be able to answer
these questions: What colors do you want to use? How do you keep the look of your site consistent? Why content is so important? What graphics should you add? How will visitors navigate your site? How can you layout your pages?
Website Design
Tools. Carpenters, electricians and auto-mechanics all
need the right tools before they begin work. Well, so do
Webmasters. It's called software. Some software you already have,
others you can download as freeware or shareware. See what
tools you need and download them now.
Organizational Chart. Draw an organizational
chart by hand of your site. This should show how your pages are
linked to one another -- your navigation scheme.
Update Your Website Plan. Update the Website Plan you created during Step 1 to include:
How? You will use colors, consistency, content, graphics, navigation and Web style to design your site.
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