Investigation Report on Website Development
For a website to be successful, you must have clear identified goals and compelling content that draws your audience to your site again and again. A good site requires a delicate balance between content, visual appeal and technology, but most of all content (Leonard-Wilkonson, n.d.). Knowledge of the market, product or service and business environment is also essential if you are going to improve business (Barnett & O'Rourke, 2006).
2.1 WHAT MAKES A GOOD WEBSITE
2.1.1 The Audience
Content is the reason people visit websites, it forms the basis of a good site. You need to know who will look at your site, what their expectations are before starting on the content. The content will need to match up with your audience's expectations (Barnett & O'Rourke, 2006). One sample audience would be prospective students looking for a programme that might interest them ("What makes a good
", n.d.). A site that reflects this is Massey University, where you can "match interest to programmes".
2.1.2 Compelling Content
Content is the most important single element on a website, this will be the reason why they visit your site in the first place (Barnett & O'Rourke, 2006). It will need to provide the visitor with the information and grab their attention.
You will need to create simple, inviting and informative content. The use of headings, short paragraphs and bullet points is highly recommended (Ekins, n.d.). A good example here is the Eastern Institute of Technology's (EIT) webpage on their programmes. It outlines the programmes in an easy to read content with breaks between headings and bullet points to make important information stand out.
The introduction should be written out word for word. Use complete sentences in your outline. The introduction should include the following:
Throughout the course of semester, I have developed many essential skills as a media text creator. We’ve been asked to do at least one of the media text once throughout this semester allowing us to fix our past mistakes and improve upon that. Challenges I will face throughout this assignment is I longer have the book in hand with me, so I may have to go back through previous assignments/blog post to find specific quotes that I’ve. I may have to retrieve the book back and refresh my memory of the book as it’s been a couple months since I had last finished the book. The start of creating my web page may be a bit difficult to get started with because we’ve dealt with majority of blogs this semester, so I may have trouble getting started with how I want to explain/showcase the purpose for an example to the audience.
Web sites are just like magazines, newspapers, brochures, menus, or even directions on how to make nitroglycerin from house-hold goods, in that they all have to be put together in such a manner that whoever is reading or browsing over it will be able to clearly distinguish this from that. In this sense, a critique of any particular web site will have justification, while carefully considering also that this is an altogether new medium of information exchange. Now, all of this talk of togetherness is actually a general reference to basic design principles, such as color coordination, if color is used, text size, font choice/ style, art integration, accessibility, and just plain and simple design of the page. For example, it wouldn't be all that appealing to the eyeball if a page being viewed had all the text jumbled up in a corner, so small your eyes were bleeding by the time you figured out that it wasn't even worth the trouble. Darn. It's important to rememeber, especially these days, that what you read is as important as how it looks. Have you ever tried reading an interview in a Raygun magazine? Kinda hard, right? Design totally for its own sake is nice, as art that is, and admittedly it looks cool. However, it's two in the morning and you're standing in line at the corner 7-11 trying to pay for your 40 ounce bottle of Kool-Aid, and you happen to see that your favorite MTV Pearl Crap-clone band is on the cover of this hip magazine and you go to read it, but you can't. It's not because to you failed elementary school three times in two years, but because the maestro in charge decided to get fancy with it and thought it'd be cool if he hid the text under a black box or likewise photograph. I like to loo...
- I will be planning to use Italic and time new roman for my font and
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
The first segment will be involve stating the topic as well as showing how it connects to the course themes. This will help to understand the topic better. The next segment will involve locating a newspaper article
I chose a very simple white template for my website and chose to go through the domain of Weebly. I chose a more simple template because I wanted everything to be easy to find and to navigate. There is nothing more frustrating than when you're trying to research a topic and you can't because the website is busy and messy. My goal in designing my website was this, I wanted to create a website that I wish I had available to me when I was preparing for my news presentation. I wanted to build a website that was a well blend of the sources I had used, but with little to no bias. Affirmative action can more often than not be seen as an issue of the past so it was important to me to include resources that reinforced how big of an issue it still is today so that readers aren't making up information about affirmative action or believing old wives tales. I chose to include minimal pictures because I feel like pictures often enough can be really unnecessary unless its informational like a poll or graph.
Here I will list the course concepts that relate to my program or what I have said in the program.
There are five different criteria that should always be met when it comes to evaluating a website. These criteria’s include accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage (“Criteria Used in Evaluating Web Resources”, 2014). Accuracy is deciphering who is hosting the website, if the website has stated the purpose and audience, and if the information on the site is reliable. A good way to check if the information can be trusted is to compare the facts found on the website with other information and facts found from other internet or print sources. Authority is verifying that the author of the website is real, because if the author is real then the information can usually be trusted as well (“Criteria Used in Evaluating Web Resources”, 2014). To check the authority of a site, the page should be examined for information about the author, note if anyone else has contributed to the website, check for contact information, and see if the author has created other websites with factual information. It is a good sign if there is contact information for the author, because it means someone is taking credit for the information on the page (“Criteria Used in Evaluating Web Resources”, 2014). If someone is taking credit, there is a better chance that the information can be trusted because the author would not want a bad reputation and to be held accountable for sharing false information. The objectivity of a website is deciding if the website is trying to sway the reader’s opinion, and if it is biased. If the advertisements on the site are being supplied by the author of the site, then there is a good chance the page is biased. There should be no bias or opinion located on a site that is supposed to supply factual information (“Criter...
This includes the copyright information for the website, the name of the website 's author, the business name and address, if applicable, and the date of the most recent update. Some Web page footers include links to other pages within the website, an email link or an RSS link. The top of the Web page contains the most valuable "real estate" on the website, so footer content is of lesser importance. The footer is coded in either CCS or HTML. Footers should be designed for the user, should consolidate the number of links, should be neat and tidy, and kept simple (Miller,
The design of the Web site is very bright and appealing to the eye. Its layout is inviting and easy to navigate. Its design is consistent through all pages. There are many graphics including, photographs, illustrations, and animated buttons and GIFs. These graphics are placed in an orderly fashion and do not create a cluttered appearance. The site has its own search engine which assists in navigating throughout the site.
The first criterion that needs to be met for doing research or using the internet is authority. you should cite these The author of the web page and their qualifications should be clearly identified. This will include the author’s information that will allow the reader to decide if this person is qualified and is a reliable source to use for research. The next criterion is accuracy of the webpage. This will include contact information such as an e-mail link and domain. The third criterion is objectivity. The website should have clearly stated goals for providing the information. These goals should not be objective and not bias. The fourth criterion is currency. The researcher should look for a date that shows if the events are current or has expired and if it is a dead link...
So, a well-developed website and a good online presence can be a cost-effective way to grow your business by enabling your potential customers to reach your business easily.
In conclusion, curriculum is essential to every school system. It gives teachers a guide to use when constructing meaningful lessons, activities and assessments. I have memories of good curriculum as a student as well as bad and have had personal experience in curriculum writing. I want to learn as much as possible about curriculum and curriculum writing so that I can be involved with my staff during the process and be a resource to help them develop the most effective classroom lessons.
There is no doubt that content is a key part of a marketing strategy. But, it does not, and should not, need to stop at the written word. Here are some great reasons for using infographics in your business’s content: