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November 04, 2005
Planning your website
Now that you have learned how to write a basic page and attach links or images to it with HTML, it's time to begin thinking about what you want to do with your website.
Tell a story?
Post your art?
Write about your hobbies and interests?
Create your own links page to your favorite sites?
Promote a sport or team?
Before web designers begin making pages for the web, they plan out what pages they need and how the pages link to each other. They also think about how they want the site to look.
Who is the page designed for (who is its audience)?
What colors or images might be on pages?
How does someone visiting the site navigate it to find what they are looking for?
Today we will be using storyboards and idea mapping charts to plan our pages. Use the handouts I brought in or create your own idea map on a blank piece of paper. You can also use the Inspiration software to plan your website.
Storyboard (pdf)
Website Map (pdf)
Story Map (pdf)
Cluster Word/Web Map (pdf)
Describing Wheel (pdf)
Next week we'll begin using the Publisher web editor.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at November 4, 2005 12:26 PM