Web Page Template Design

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Web Page Template Design
EDT 6040 June 19, 2001 David Nolker, CEC,
CCE dnolker_at_dtcc.edu www.dtcc.edu/dnolker Creat
ed June 19, 2001
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Why a standard format?

• Comfort zone
• Instruction friendly
• Time saving
• Cost saving
• End user friendly

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Faculty Needs Assessments

• Would having a Web site make you a more efficient
  instructor if your assignments and syllabi were
  on the Internet?
• Should additional courses and design resources be
  available to help you publish assignments of the
  Web?
• Would having online access allow you to
  incorporate project-based learning?

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Faculty Responses
We all ready have enough to do! Why more work?
You got to be kidding! Well ok if I dont have to
work too hard and I can stay in my comfort Zone.
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Web Design Tips

• What are your goals?
• Who is intended audience?
• Every Web page needs
• An informative title
• Authors identity
• contact information
• Creation and/or revision date
• Link to home page

• Organizing Information
• Visual Hierarchy
• Design Considerations
• S C I B (simple and consistent is best)
• K I S S

Source Lynch, P.J., Horton, S (1999) Web Style
Guide Basic Design Principles for Creating Web
Sites. New Haven Yale University Press.
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Web Page Style

• Instructional age specific
• The younger the intended audience, use more fun
  graphics
• The older the intended audience, use more
  sophisticated the graphics

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Web page Example
Delaware Tech Curriculum page
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Biggest Obstacle?

• Having necessary computers
• Basic training
• Deciding on format

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Thank you!

• For a copy of this presentation or any
  information, please be invited to access
  www.dtcc.edu/dnolker