Web Site Design and Construction:
A Workshop for New Web Masters

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Much of what I have learned about Web page design has been from conversations with collaborators. My thanks go particularly to Martha Baker, Rich Barrette, Beau Baughamer, and Kathy Llewellyn.

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Roadmap

1. Review

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   What is the Internet?

   What is the World Wide Web?

   How do I learn all the HTML "tags?"

   How do I make Web pages?

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   • How is the Web different from hardcopy?

   • What can I learn by theft?

   • When should I upload new or revised pages?

   • How do we organize our team?

   • How do we use criticism?

   
   

2. What goes on my page?

   • What can I do on my own?

   • What can I do with an artist's help?

   • What can I do with a programmer's help?

   • What about CGI, Java, and Javascript??

   • When should I use Java?

   • How does Java Work?

   
   

3. Learning HTML

   
   

4. Questions?

   
   

5. Follow-up Topics

   • What Design Goals Should Influence My Web Pages?

     • What is the Web page design process?

     • How can the conceptual design be planned?

     • How much attention should I pay to "hit" counts?

     • What are good Web page design goals?

     
     

   • How can I keep my Web pages robust?

     • What makes Web pages fragile?

     • How can I avoid making my pages fragile?

     • Where else can I find information about robust page design?

     
     

   • What are a dozen Web page features I should use?

     
     

   • What ten Web page characteristics should I avoid?

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/oacrao00/index.htm) on October 30, 2000.

Please send comments or suggestions to piccard@ohio.edu.