Plan Your Website, Part Two

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?

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

• 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

• 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"

• 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

• 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.)