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WEB PAGE DESIGN OVERVIEW
Audience

Identify your audience (undergraduate or graduate students, a special interest group, a specific department, all staff, potential students, alumni, sports enthusiasts, etc.).

Message

Identify the message that you want to convey to this audience

Content

Make a list of your potential content topics. Prioritize these topics based on appropriateness for your audience

Design Issues
  • Develop a consistent look and feel for your pages

  • Organize the structure of your pages. Develop an easy way to find information.

  • Put the most important topics in the most prominent location

  • Make sure that the organization makes sense to your audience

MORE ON DESIGN
Browser Sizing- when you design a Web page, how wide should it be?
How Users Read on the Web - from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Project Cool Developer Zone
Tips & Tricks- this site was created to help you design "a better web page".
Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management- from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003- from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Web Developer's Handbook
Web Page Design for Designers
Web Page Editors
Web Style Guide
Web Tools- a small collection of web tools to help get you started building a web site.
Webopedia- online dictionary for computer & internet terms.

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