Web Site Design

Maintain the Liveness of the site (add new stuff frequently and regularly)

Aesthetic concerns

Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.


Yale Style Manual

Wilson Internet Services

Webcraft

The Ugliest Page On The Web

~Daveland~

Ten Ways To Tell If You Have A Sucky Page

Screen size
Aspect ratio
Color
Color compatibility
Page color, background color
Text color, link color, visited link color
Readability
Style
Clarity
Extras

Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

Structural Concerns (avoiding the World Wide Wait)

Simplicity (designed for faster loading)
Shorter pages/Smaller Graphics
Big Graphics = Big Waits
Images (gif or jpg?)
Higher Ed Images
GIF Animation On The WWW
Design colors to accommodate lower end monitors
Watch out for browser specific functions (Frames etc.)
Simple/uniform file name conventions (site management)


Developing Capabilities



Real time chat
Internet phone
Video conferencing

Video Conferencing Project at CSLA

VirtCon 3: A Virtual Conference

Campus concerns

Security / Viruses / Password Verifiers (CGI or Java/JavaScript)
Institutional level of technical sophistication


CTP 499 Multimedia at Purdue

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Professor Alan Bloom
Phone: (323) 343-4209
FAX: (818) 352-8817
Email: abloom51@aol.com