Revitalize
Conduct Periodic Site Evaluation
- Ask people what they like and don't like
- Who comes to the site and why?
- Why do people not come to the site?
- What are they seeking?
Expand User Interactivity
- Use Macromedia Contribute
- Post PDF files
- Encourage blogging
Add Simple Elements
- Online forms
- contact information
- request for information
- Site search engine
- Virtual tour
- Slide shows
- Language options (Spanish, etc.)
Produce Quality Content
- Design original content rather than reproducing materials already available at other sites:
- Local news
- Historical information
- Interviews
- Discussions
- Student-produced materials
- Be sure the website is frequently updated through the use of special features:
Redesign for Intuitive Navigation
- Maintain a consistent layout for easy navigation.
- Limit the depth of the site so users don't need to go more than 3 layers down for information.
Save Time
- Eliminate things that are hard to update
- calendars - menus, sports, news, how can you handle differently?
- If you can't maintain website links, connect to a few unchanging resources rather than many individual websites.
- When possible, use external CSS and external JavaScripts so it's easy to make website wide changes.
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