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Activity 11: Sharing your website

Sharing your website: 2 hours

 

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The purpose of this activity is to invite participation in your website and to recognize opportunities for its use by the target audience.

A website only serves its purpose if it is well-used. It will be necessary for you to continue reviewing the way in which people use and interact with your website. One way of doing this is to invite feedback from users, learners, and colleagues.

Only do this activity once you have published your updated website.

Sharing your website

Use your e-diary to make initial comments.

  1. Once you have published your website, write a message to your group and invite them to view the site and give you feedback. Give them the website address. Also invite friends and colleagues to view the site and give you feedback.
  2. Look at the sites that the members of your group invite you to view. Give them feedback. Share ideas and techniques that you have learnt.
Updating your website

You will always use the FTP programme (or similar resource) with the same user name and password to upload your files. Do not consider the first publication of your site to be the completion of your task. It is just the beginning.

A good website is a dynamic site. This means that it is continually changing and improving. We encourage you to keep updating files that become outdated and to add additional files as new information becomes available. As you update files, make sure that you change the update date at the bottom of the page. Updating files on the Web server is the same as uploading. See the tips for Updating files.

Use your e-diary to make comments about this activity.

ASSIGNMENT

This assignment should be completed systematically throughout the module, which should last for no longer than 7 weeks. The best way to achieve this is to work systematically through the activities.

What to do:

  1. Work through the activities in the module. These will guide you to produce a basic website with sound design principles
  2. Publish the website and test its functionality – fix errors
  3. Create and apply a simple assessment tool for your site, focusing on sound functionality and design, but including the educational value and credibility of the content in your criteria. Save this tool and your analysis of it. You will include this in your final assessment.
  4. Poll members of your group and other colleagues and friends and ask them to give you feedback about the site. Summarise their feedback in your e-diary
  5. Consider the feedback and apply changes where necessary. Record this in your e-diary. NOTE: This analysis and reflection is assessed - do not neglect to make a good effort here.

What to submit:

Submit your portfolio for this module to your tutor. This should include:

  • E-diary, saved as <your_student_number>-Elective1-ediary
  • Collaboration logbook, saved as <your_student_number>-Elective1-collaboration
  • website planning document, saved as <your_student_number>-Elective1-planning
  • Website assessment tool, saved as <your_student_number>-Elective1-assessment
  • Details of the URL (location) of your website (in the message of your email).

Send these documents as file attachments in e-mail to your tutor (using the subject heading "Web Design Assignment").

 

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Once you have finished this activity, we would appreciate it if you could complete the Self-assessment form.


 
 
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