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Planning & Managing a web site

Publishing a web site involves more than learning how to write the pages. This overview highlights the most important questions for you to address and points you to further resources.

  • Planning your site - definining your purposes, identifying your audience and setting objectives
  • Site design - what to include and how to structure the information to suit users' purposes
  • Page design - creating the impression you want, using effective navigation tools and writing copy for web reading
  • Writing pages - at last! HTML and DreamWeaver
  • Site management - monitoring traffic, working with a team and evaluating effectiveness

Writing web pages - "hands-on" help

A starting point, and links to further hand-picked tutorials and reference sites on:

Specialist topics

Accessibility

Web Site accessibility: find out why it's important, who's affected and how, and what you can do to make your site more accessible. This area includes how to use LIFT for Dreamweaver to check your site's accessibility.

SEDU are also running a course on Web Site Accessibility - making your site meet University standards.

"How-to" demonstrations

Try our on-screen demonstrations of commonly performed tasks in web publishing.

Training events

S&EDU offer events on:

E-learning ...

... or using the web to support learning / teaching is not covered here. See the IS Learning Team's pages for details of the support available in the University for using WebCT. The University e-learning site includes details of the e-learning strategy document (June 2001).

... and more ...

A miscellaneous collection of of gateway sites, script libraries, software collections etc. etc.