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Students Page DiscussionBuilding a Better
website

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Overview

• Why build a website?
• What should it feature?
• How should it be organized?
• What should you do to program it? In?

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Overview (cont)

• Thanks, sources
• And more talking

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Why build a website?
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What should it feature?

• K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
• General Ideas
• Top- or Left-orientation
• A general menu
• Site map
• Contact people page
• Time, date and person on the last update
• Alternate text for the situations your site cant
  be used to its full potential

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What should it feature? (cont)

• Things you should try to avoid
• Having many dead links
• Unless you stated that your site is of a certain
  view, stay away from all biases
• Having tones of emails sitting on a site,
  especially with the _at_ symbols
• FRAMES
• ANY GARABAGE CODE

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How should it be organized?

• Based on
• category. Example School Site
• need. See students page
• Easy to get to the useful tools and favorite
  sites especially contact and event sites
• Easy on the eyes, but not dull to come to
• Easy to maintain and to update

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How should it be organized? (cont)
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What should you do to program it?

• First, make sure there is a person and/or a team
  responsible for the website
• Second, know you limits, ex
• Memory in your Drive
• Third, Know URLs you work under
• Fourth, have at least one site called index
  with a .htm or .html, so the explores will
  know where to go.

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What should program In?

• What ever best fits you
• Each program has its own way to make short work
  of what you are looking to do.
• Some code gets inserted (even if not needed)
  because either the program or its programmer
  thought that code might be incredibly common, and
  there for builds in the code automatically

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Please Send us ideas

• What other suggestions do you have?

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Thanks

• To all who contributed
• To you for looking

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Sources

• 10 Tips for a better Website
• http//developers.eversoft.com/article/web-design-
  tutorials/10-tips-for-a-better-website.htm
• Web Compliancy Policy
• http//www.oneonta.edu/technology/compserv/webacce
  ss.asp
• Checklist to Evaluating Web Sites
• http//www.lib.umd.edu/UES/webcheck.htmltop