Tips on Creating and Maintaining an Educational World Wide Web Site

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Tips on Creating and Maintaining an Educational
World Wide Web Site

• Etec 562
• By Orawan Sakunloetprasuk

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What is World Wide Web?

• An Internet-based computer network that allows
  people at one computer to access information
  stored on another.
• A single document in a web site is called Web
  page. These web site documents are stored on
  servers.

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Software programs for Web design

• Web page editor
• A file transfer program
• A Web browser

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Tips on Creating an Effective Web Site

• See What is Already Out There
• Determine Intellectual Property Ownership Sooner
  Rather Than Later
• Plan Ahead
• Keep the loading Time of Pages to a Minimum
• Appearance Matters
• Seek Feedback
• Assume Nothing, Check Everything
• Spend Time Promoting Your Site

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Knowing what is already on the Web

• It prevents you from reinventing the wheel.
• It makes you aware of valuable Web sites that can
  be added to yours as links.
• It gives you ideas that can enhance your own Web
  site.

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Determine Intellectual Property Ownership

• Make sure that who will own and control the site
  before the constructing get started.
• Web sites must be treated as same as textbooks.

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Plan Ahead

• Choose a clear file names and locate them in a
  single directory
• Avoid general file names, such as Psyc.htm or
  course.htm.
• Avoid changing the names and locations of Web
  files

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Keep the Loading Time of Pages to a Minimum

• Making sure your Home page does not exceed 2 or
  3 screens of material or 10-15 sec of loading
  time.
• Using a graphics program to crop, compress, or
  reduce the graphic images on you Web site.
• Minimization unnecessary animation, images, and
  JavaScript programs, such as program that create
  animated e-mail images.

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Appearance Matters

• Dont allow lines of text to run the full width
  of the computer screen.
• Dont crate table or images that are wider than
  600 pixels.
• Dont use white text on a dark background.
• Do use uppercase and lowercase letters rather
  than capital letters.

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Appearance Matters

• Do develop a consistent style from page to page.
• Do provide a link to your home page on each Web
  page in your site.
• Do make sure visitors have a way to contact you,
  such as your e-mail address.
• Do provide an outline with internal anchors if a
  page is unusually long.

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Seek Feedback

• Asking other people
• Installing digital counters
• Analyzing log files

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Assume Nothing, Check Everything

• Checking your Web page by looking at it on
  variety of monitors. Compare how the page looks
  on a laptop computer versus a desktop computer,
  or a IBM- compatible PC versus a desktop
  computer.

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Spend Time Promoting Your Site

• If your Web site is used for the class, then
  there is no need to worry about listing it with
  search engines or having other sites link to it.
• If your Web site is designed for a wider target,
  then you have got to submit your pages to search
  engines in order to let others know about the
  site.

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How to submit the pages to search engines

• Visiting individual search engine and follow
  their instruction for submitting Web pages.
• Visiting a registration Web site that will
  submit your pages to multiple search engines with
  no charge.
• pay for your site to be professionally promoted