Basic Web Page Two
Instructions for Putting Together a Basic Web Page
and Emphasizing Text

Make an Ordered List of What You Need to Do

1. Understand the reason for making the web page.
2. Gather the materials for the web page.
3. Create the web pages using software.
4. Advertise your site.

Points to consider in making webpages

These are situations that might occur at any point in the process of making a webpage.

• New materials may have to be added. (Strong vs. Bold)
• Feedback from clients and users may cause major rethinking. (Emphasis vs. Italic)
• Users must be given a reason to return to your pages. (Blink)
• If you need an FAQ, your site isn't clear enough.

Defining the Allegheny Situation

Audience for the Website

Students, Alumni, Community, Others

Size of the Website

Number of pages is our choice.

Individual pages should be manageable

Format for the Website

• Might look like the Official Allegheny Webpage
• Should use colors and symbols that evoke Allegheny
• Should use colors and symbols that represent history
• Should use colors and symbols that represent landscape, especially in the section on Green Allegheny.

Basic Navigation

It's very important to include navigational indicators on each page. Ideally, these should be self-explanatory. Having the same navigation on every page gives unity to the site and makes it user-friendly. This is an important point in the book Web Pages That Suck.

Navigation items can include buttons, graphics, or lists. Frames pose problems, especially according to the book Web Pages That Suck.

Sites without navigational aids don't give you a way to get back to the home page or to the rest of the site. These are called orphan pages, according to the book Web Pages That Suck.

Well-designed sites always establish their authority through clear information about the author and sponsoring institution. Amelia Carr says this in a blockquote:

The best sites include information about how to contact the owner of the site (although sometimes the person that is listed as a contact is actually the person who designed the site, not necessarily the person who can give you more information about the content of the site). It's also pretty important to have information about when the site was last updated. Of course, the date of the last update reveals to the entire world how attentive you are to the site.

If you don't have lots of identifying material on your site, perhaps there is a good reason.

http://merlin.allegheny.edu/employee/a/acarr/green/basic2.html
Posted on February 4, 2001.
Author is Amelia Carr
acarr@allegheny.edu