Content:
- Make every page count. Make sure every page has "meat"
on it.
- Structure content efficiently in order to provide visitors with your
mission.
- Provide content that has value to others in school or in the community.
- If your content points to resources of the larger Web, make sure
to point to the best resources and to excellent information.
- Focus on publishing your student work.
- For safety sake, be careful about including too much information
about students (don't include last names, or identify students' photos.
We already established a form for Students to Publish on the Internet)
Scope:
- Start small. It's better to publish a few excellent pages than a
large quantity of partially complete pages
- Have a plan for expansion, and remember to maintain every page you
publish.
Links:
- Include links with relative content, which is full of value.
- Be sure to annotate links, so the visitors have a clear idea about
what's at the other end.
- Include navigational links. At the very least, a link to the home
page.
Graphic Design:
- Make sure that your pages have coherence.
- Do not use very busy backgrounds. Even if the text shows up clearly,
it could be difficult for people to read if there is too much "noise".
- Don't use a lot of images and animations. Keep in mind the time it
takes to transfer images. People are impatience.
- Use "thumbnails"(miniature versions of images) if you have
a need for many images on a single page. Visitors can click on these
images to see the full-sized version.
- Use of white space. Don't accumulate a lot of text or images in a
small area of the page.
- Make sure to have equilibrium in your page.
- Use of colors in a correct way. Don't use a lot of colors that might
harm the sight of the visitors.
- Use of Fonts. Don't use a lot of Fonts; the majority of the pages
use two to three different fonts.
Updates:
- Don't publish a page before it's ready. Wait until a page has enough
content to be of value to a visitor
- Do not say a page is under construction. The general assumption is
that all sites are under construction.
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