WEBSITE CONSTRUCTION

CHECKLIST (NOT IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER)


1.  PLANNING/MAINTAINING YOUR WEBSITE

PLANNING YOUR WEBSITE

  • Deciding Who Has the Password - The Webmaster!
  • Determining Who's in Charge of What, and Who's Paying for What
  • Setting Your Purpose and Goals
  • Identifying Your Audience/Customers
  • Organizing Your Content (Sections and Links)
  • Learning How to Use FrontPage
  • Finding a Unifying, Appropriate Style
    • Logo/Slogan/Motto
    • Colors and Fonts
    • Background
    • Page Layout
    • Navigation Aids
  • Collecting the Information - Setting up Contacts
  • Task List (Excel file)

MAINTAINING YOUR WEBSITE

  • Checking Outdated Links
  • Updating and Adding Content
  • Re-Organizing Content
  • Experimenting with Design and Effects
2. GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR WEBSITE
3. UNDERSTANDING WEBSITE CONCEPTS
4. STARTING YOUR WEBSITE
5. TYPING IN THE TEXT; GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH THE HTML EDITOR
6. DISPLAYING FILE EXTENSIONS
7. CONFIGURING DEFAULTS
8. VIEWING THE FILES AND FOLDERS IN YOUR WEBSITE (Word document)
9. NAMING, SAVING, AND ORGANIZING YOUR WEBPAGES
10. INSERTING LINKS
11.

COLLECTING AND INSERTING IMAGES

Sample Images

12.

DESIGNING LAYOUTS WITH TABLES

13. AVOIDING TASK DUPLICATION
14. UNDERSTANDING BASIC HTML
15. POSTING NON-HTML FILES
16. COPYING AND PASTING FROM FORMATTED DOCUMENTS
17. USING THE DRAWING AND PICTURES TOOLBARS
18. UPLOADING YOUR WEBSITE TO A HOST SERVER WITH FRONTPAGE EXTENSIONS (Word document)
19. UPLOADING YOUR WEBSITE TO MCSD'S HOST SERVER WITHOUT FRONTPAGE EXTENSIONS
20. REGISTERING AND PROMOTING YOUR WEBSITE
21. UNDERSTANDING THE VARIABLES IN SETTINGS
22. COMPARING FRONTPAGE 2003 AND 2002
23. ADDING A FEW BELLS AND WHISTLES
24. USING STYLES (SEPARATE CLASS)
25. WORKING WITH COLORS
26. ADDING SIMPLE JAVASCRIPTS (SEPARATE CLASS)
27. CREATING WEBFORMS (SEPARATE CLASS)
28. TROUBLESHOOTING SCREEN RESOLUTION PROBLEMS
29. LOCATING RESOURCES
30. GETTING STATISTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SITE WITH WEBALIZER (Word document)
31. USING THE MCSD SCHOOL WEBSITE TEMPLATES
You can copy any of the pages in the Mulligan website and modify them for your school.
32.

MCSD SCHOOL WEBSITE CHECKLIST

33. Text to Use in Exercises:  Several Paragraphs Selections
www.starketech.com
www.mcsdga.net
www.mcsdtechcenter.org
www.gaetc.org

Mary Starke, Instructor
mstarke@mcsdga.net

Page Changed 02/26/2008