Authoring and Design for the WWW

Contents

• About this handbook
• INTRODUCTION
  • Uses of the Web and the nature of HEI information
  • Why publish in electronic form?
  • Obstacles to success with the Web
• PRINCIPLES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
  • The uses of hypertext
  • Paper information: good and bad
  • Hypertext and the style of documents
  • HTML
  • Functional markup versus fixed formatting
  • Evaluating interactive information technologies
  • The Web as an educational medium
  • The future: a better hypertext system?
  • The future: the Web is changing
• DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION
  • Web design for non-designers
  • Some basic principles of information design
  • Computer screens are not paper
  • User-centred design
• DESIGN CASE STUDIES
  • Visual and structural design of Web documents
• POLICY
  • Creating a maintainable site
  • Checklist for making and maintaining a site
  • Control
  • Staff development issues
• APPENDICES
  • Appendix One: a note on Standards
  • Appendix Two: Some basic facts
  • Appendix Three: Adobe Acrobat
  • Resources
  • Web Resources
  • Glossary

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