Creating Reader-Centered Web Pages and Websites

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Creating Reader-Centered Web Pages and Websites
Paul V. Andersons Technical Communication, 6th
ed.
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• Learn about your sites readers
• and define its purpose.

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• Create the map for a site that includes
• what your readers want
• and enables them to get it quickly.

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• Gather the information your readers need.

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• Ethics Guideline Respect intellectual property
  and provide valid information.

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• Design pages that are
• easy to use and attractive.

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• Provide navigational aids that help your readers
  move quickly through your site
• to the information they want.

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• Unify your site verbally and visually.

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• Construct a site that
• readers with disabilities can use.

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• Global Guidelines Design your site for
  international and multicultural readers.

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• Help readers find your site on the Internet.

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• Test your site before launching it.

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Read more about creating web sites in Chapter 18
of Technical Communication.