Outline For "Crafting and Maintaining a Useful Web Site"

To learn how the Web can help improve business, please refer to our paper titled "Business Case for a Web Site", which is also on this Web site.

Crafting and Maintaining a Useful Web Site

• Introduction
  • What Will We Cover?
    • General Guidance
    • On-line Friendliness
    • Testing
    • Graphics Issues
    • Specific Techniques
  • Were Will We Get?
    • Technology Developing
    • Rapidly Out Of Date
    • Big Job
    • Takes Proper Training, Time
    • Allocate Resources or Outsource
• General Guidance
  • Planning
    • Know What You Want To Deliver
    • Simple Billboard or Intricate
    • User Interaction Requires More
    • Logical Layout (Details)
    • Physical Layout (Details)
    • Document Intentions (Details)
  • Implementation
    • Have a Template (Details)
    • Maintain Hyperlinks
  • Metrics
    • Page Hits -- What the Numbers Mean
• On-line Friendliness
• Testing
  • Be Aware of Browsers
    • Render Differently
    • Check Logs
    • History from InterWorks Logs (Details)
    • Tables
    • Java
    • Backgrounds (keep it simple)
    • Font Specifications
    • Page Formatting (<CENTER> vs ALIGN=CENTER)
    • Image Maps - Alternate Methods
    • Plug-ins
    • "newstuff" - Watch for More
  • Multi-test for Equipment Differences
  • Broken Links
  • Syntax Errors & Changes
• Graphics Issues
  • Bandwidth Conservation Society Site
  • ALT Attribute
  • Watch Number of Graphics and Size of Graphics
  • Watch out for HEIGHT and WIDTH on IMG Tags
  • Image Maps vs Text
  • Big IMGs of Bulleted Lists
  • Align Attribute (MIDDLE)
  • Watch for New Standards, PNG
• Specific Techniques
  • Forms
  • Subordinate Information
  • What Extensions are Safe to Use?
  • Restricted Access
• Are We There Yet?

(Updated 05 APR 96)