Web Site Design

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The goal of Web Site Design is to teach WIT participants to create a web site with easy-to-use navigation elements and a consistent overall site structure.

How do you begin to design a Web site? This module will describe some methods to help you get started.

• A logical organizational foundation is essential for good web site design
• Create outlines
• divide your information into logical units and sub units
• write a table of contents, which can become a logical navigational tool for your web site

The content of your web pages should be accurate, useful, and easy to understand. There are four basic structures for web sites:

• Sequence
• Grid
• Hierarchy
• Web

For further description see Yale's Web Style Guide.

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Originally developed by Sheila Edstrom, John Lyman,and Russ Revzan last revised and modified 5-3-01 by Esther Pullman

 

 

 

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