Portions of this presentation are only made available publicly by Tonya Thomas for the duration of MCWT's web design competition due to copyright ownership.

A Bit About Your Trainer...

• 20 years in IT, education, web design, multimedia
  communications

• instructional design lead & project manager (Oakland CC)

• IT professor (Macomb CC)

• President/CLO of my own consulting firm

• Bachelor of Science, Walden University

• Masters, Education Technology, University of Michigan

• Mom of two girls only a few years older than you

• MCWT leader and volunteer since 2003

• I'm a superhero dweeb

• I love music, art, photography, football, all things autumn!

Why
Training Day?

So you don't end up feeling like this!

What We're Gonna Do

• Review competition rules

• Focus on usability and why it's so important

• Hands-on practice and digging into your own project

Five Pages

• Index.html should be your home page
   

• 3 more pages on
  your themed topic
   

• Fifth page:

  • Computer classes

  • Any code borrowed

  • Web design app used

  • Cited sources

Site File Organization

"self-documenting" structure

• Pages of same level together

• IMG folder

• DOC folder

• Media folders
  (VID, AUD, etc.)

http://www.slideshare.net/kappadiva/usability-shmoozability-mcwtf

More
Important Stuff

• Home page must have "index" in name/URL

• Use current code languages

• One external link required

• No personal links (privacy)

• Site must work in most common browsers

• No animation software

• Descriptive page names

• Filenames vs. page titles

• Images must all load

• Only lowercase letters and numerals in filenames
  (no spaces!)

• Mouseovers allowed, but no audio, video, animation or auto-scrolling

Technical Stuff

Design Stuff

Let's Get Crackin'!!!

http://www.mcwtwebdesign4girls.net/resources-tutorials/