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MC Design Home Storyboard Basics
Writing for the Web
Link Three Ways!
Objective = give your users three (3) ways to find the same information!!!!
User Link Option 1 - A Horizontal Navbar typically uses JavaScript Buttons or Cascading Style Sheet Buttons.
(OK, so now you have to take 2 other courses from Prof. Kimball)
--User Link Option 2 - Locate links on the Left NavBar
--User LInk Option 3 - Include explanatory text with links in the Main Section. These short sentences with links explain your program but contain many links to other pages. This Main Section gives you an opportunity to present your program, but also to provide users with what they want – Speed-reading to find links to the information they want.
--User Link Option 4 - Right Colum - NavBar, Ads, News, Important Information!
These links don't have to all be the same - they can be complimentary. But some important links will be the same or similar, to make it as easy as possible for users to "function" on your web site. This is called web site 'functionality" or "usability."
Organization Web Site – will presume that users will use the 1 link provided, and understand its meaning!!! This is the equivalent of a “Professorial “Harrumph!”
MC User site = tries to help 22,000 undergrads and 24,000 adult learners find the information they need in 3 clicks or less without using the dreaded search engine!
User Friendly plus Accessibility Laws in the State of Maryland, which require you to create web pages accessible to those with disabilities:
Later this semester – How to Build Accessible Web Sites.
ITI pioneered (with DSS) the design of Accessible web sites at MC – now in wide use at the College.
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