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Plan Your Website, Part Two

By William R. Stocking CMC

Questions to answer
before you continue work on a new or redesigned website

Bill Stocking, Management Cosultant
Bill Stocking
You've seen a lot of website designs. Now it's time for your own. Having a good plan will set your site apart from the pack.

Content - Words

Content - Images & graphics

  • Existing content to be revised
  • New content to be developed
  • Who supplies content?
  • Existing images?
  • Paper images to be scanned
  • Electronic
  • Images to be developed?

User/Visitor data - do you need to capture?

  • What do you need to know?
  • Why?
  • Privacy statement

Project
implementation considerations

Interactive technologies you might want to use:

  • Information collecting form(s)
  • Forms for content generation
  • Bulletin board
  • Password protection for parts of site
  • "Print this page" (Example at bottom)
  • On-site search engine
  • Web based survey form or service
  • Autoresponders
  • Chat room
  • Calendar - on site or ASP
  • "Send this page" to someone

Web construction presentation & menu elements:

Construction Tools & Elements

  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) a "must do" technology
  • CGI scripts (mostly written in a language called Perl)
  • Frames: very few reasons to use them. (Frames Questions & Answers)
  • "Includes" either SSI or MS includes, another "must do."
  • Javascript (performs many functions)
  • Database page presentation, web pages "on the fly"

Presentation Technology

  • Html pages
  • Flash presentations
  • Dynamic html: combination of CSS and Javascript. (DHTML Example Page)
  • PDF: Adobe's Portable Document Format (pretty universal)
  • Sound files
  • Separate "printable" pages
  • PowerPoint presentations can be converted to 1) web pages (see ASP article) or 2) PDFs or 3) flash pages 4) left in their native format, (bad idea.)
  • Database for a membership lists or catalog - on site or ASP
  • Word documents or RTF documents (The later is a better idea, more universal.)
  • Quicktime, or other movie format

Menuing Technologies

  • Old fashioned html text link: (Examples and article)
  • Image maps for menus: can be problematic, (not indexable by search engines.)
  • "Rollover" menu elements
  • CSS modified text link: (Examples and article)
  • Drop-down list: this site uses one for articles
  • Dynamic HTML drop-down menus, (not indexable by search engines.)



 
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