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Web Site Design Principles - Details

Initial Questions

Before starting to design your website, you should try and answer the following questions:

1. Why are you publishing a website?
   Is the site a learning aid, to provide unique information, to educate, to provide reference? Is it primarily a showcase for the students’ work, or an educational project to introduce pupils to the possibilities of the Internet? Is it to be a fun site or a serious one?
    
2. Who will be the audience for your site?
   Will it be the student population, other schools, the community, teachers, parents and the local community?
    
3. What content are you going to put on your site?
   Information about the school, student activities, student projects, publications, unique information? See What to Publish on your School Web Site.
    
4. What tools are you going to need to create the content?
   See Web Publishing Tools.
    
5. Who is going to perform the tasks involved?
   Web site design is usually a team effort. There are many tasks involved in creating a web site:
   • Writing the material
   • Collecting, scanning and manipulating the images
   • Maintaining the site and creating new content