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Developing a Site to Present Materials Online TESOL Arabia 2005

Derrick Millard Email: derrick.millard@hct.ac.ae Doug McPherson Email: douglas.mcpherson@hct.ac.ae HD1 Dubai Women’s College http://www.dwc.hct.ac.ae/tesolpresentations. Developing a Site to Present Materials Online TESOL Arabia 2005. Who we are:. Derrick Millard M.Ed. In ESL

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Developing a Site to Present Materials Online TESOL Arabia 2005

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  1. Derrick Millard Email: derrick.millard@hct.ac.ae Doug McPherson Email: douglas.mcpherson@hct.ac.ae HD1 Dubai Women’s College http://www.dwc.hct.ac.ae/tesolpresentations Developing a Site to Present Materials OnlineTESOL Arabia 2005

  2. Who we are: • Derrick Millard • M.Ed. In ESL • HD1 Webmaster with 4 staff divisions and 200 plus students • Started on English web, teacher self-help and numerous projects • Certificates in Web Design • Doug Mcpherson • M.Ed. majoring in instructional design • HD1 English Webmaster • Certificates in Computing including MS Office Specialist, CNA

  3. Basics of Web Design: Where Do I Start? • Start with a PAD • Purpose • Audience • Design

  4. Purpose • Have to have a reason for designing it • What are you trying to do? • Is it a site for documents? • A site for links? • Without a purpose there is no reason for making the site

  5. Audience • As important, if not more important, as purpose • Who are you designing for? • What is their level of technical experience? • Are they familiar with websites and computers? • Not tech savvy, then you need a simpler design • Dial up? If so less pictures • It is your audience’s needs that you must consider, NOT what you want. • Good purpose + good design – audience = NOTHING

  6. Design (Part 1) • Only when you know purpose and audience, you can consider design • Makes or breaks a site • Design differs but things to consider: • Author: • Information on who the author is and how to contact? • nb. spam • Currency: • when was the page last updated?

  7. Design (Part 2) • Color and Layout: • Are the colors easy to read? Have you considered everyone in your audience? • How many pictures? • How big are they? Remember more pictures = more download time • (nb. Do not reduce size in FrontPage. Use a picture editor) • Pages consistent? • Enough white space? • Readable and standard font? • Underlines?

  8. Design (Part 3) • Navigation • Where is the navigation? • Should be either top or left • Bottom of long pages as well? • No new ideas follow conventions • Does every site have a link to home? • Are the links consistent throughout the site? • What pages are you going to link to? Internal? External? • Can you move ANYWHERE in the site in 3 links or less?

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