Hintstips in organizing your departments website

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Hints/tips in organizing your departments website

• Presented by Corrine Johnson Intel
• Technical Administrator

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Introduction
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Organize

• What does your audience want to see/find on your
  website
• Create an outline
• Gather information for outline
• Group outline information in short paragraphs
• Make a table of contents based on your outline

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Outline

• Home (main page)
• Introduction - summary
• Tutoring
• Tutors
• Tutor training
• Request a tutor
• Classes
• Staff
• Resources

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Navigational Structure

• How many clicks?
• Direct link on home page
• Give link to interested people
• Link using graphics/photos
• Navigational bars

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Branding

• Design consistency
• Use something from the college top (home) page
• Use something that designates it as your
  division/department

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Terminology

• Acronyms
• Does everyone know what youre talking about?
• Spell out
• Dictionary

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Graphics

• Large graphics will lose dial-up audiences
• Compress
• Crop unnecessary parts
• Too animated, bothersome
• Too large
• Too childlike
• Remember your audience

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Readability

• Fonts
• Background
• Borders

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Type of Font
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Backgrounds

• Solid color background
• Texture backgrounds too hard to read
• Busy background

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Summary

• Repetition and consistency
• Simple but informative
• Keep the site up-to-date

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QA