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Steps for Completing your Project
Web Site
Architecture
Think about how you want to organize
the content within the site. For example, this site organizes
all the content in the following categories:
syllabus, aesthetics, HTML, planning, design, and postmodernism.
Obviously this is more efficient that having a long list
of all of the pages included. Your site must be at least
5 pages (although you can add many more than that if you
like.) If you have 8 pages in your site, maybe you'll only
have 3 main sections, and the other pages divided into subsections.
Look at the NMC
site, and then at the chart below to see how the architecture
and file structure is organized for a small 9 page site.
The
Local Root Folder: 
| Home Page |
default.html |
splash page (different from
interior pages) |
| Who we are |
aboutus.html |
mission of the center and
list of personnel |
| What's New |
whatsnew.html |
current grants and upcoming
events |
| Projects |
projects/default.html |
list of projects with links
to client web sites |
| Web Tools |
webtools/default.html |
3 areas of resources available:
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| webtools/multimedia.html |
List of Links to Multimedia Resources |
| webtools/html.html |
List of Links to HTML Coding Resources |
| webtools/design.html |
List of Links to Web Design Resources |
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| The Multimedia Lab |
nmclab.html |
technology available in the
digital media lab |
Here there are 2 folders (in addition
to the images folder) inside the local root folder. Projects
has its own folder because the site was designed to grow.
If the site grows and eventually includes a lot of pages
about new projects, the HTML pages will all be saved in
this folder, to make them easier to find. Inside the Webtools
folder there is a seperate default page (remember there
can be multiple default pages in a site as long as each
is in its own folder) as well as 3 pages that list links
to resources. Instead of listing Web Design resources, Multimedia
Resources, and HTML Resources in the navigation bar, these
pages are only available from the webtools default page.
See Niederst pages 316-323 for more
on "clumping" content.
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