comm207fall06

a weblog for Pete Ellertsen's students in Communications 207 (editing for publication) at Benedictine University/Springfield. Link here to my faculty page.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

 

advice for making a good web page

When looking for a website on how to make a good website, i found one that i think has some very good information on it. The website i found was . There are 8 main points that are talked about and that need to me remembered when creating a web page. One of the things this site says to remember when making a web page
Content first. The most important thing for a web page is content, some sort of information, something (hopefully) new. Links to other web pages aren't really content (unless your collection of links is truly unique for some reason). Fancy graphics are not content, unless you made them yourself, in which case they are definitely your content and worth putting on the web.
Another way to state this is that when you start creating a home page, worry first about content, and last about font formats, cute graphics, and snazzy backgrounds. Content is far more valuable and interesting! Later you can go back and improve the visual appearance. (Which explains why some of my web pages are rather plain...)




At the bottom of this site, there are a few more websites that can be looked at for more help. One of them is a page, of bad websites. It has things that shouldn't be done. This site also has some useful information when creating a new website.

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