Visit the Simple Faculty Home Page for more information. Clearly, a good website does not happen automatically. It is the product of careful planning. This means you need to develop a user-friendly method for delivering content which you will be able to maintain. You probably know more about good design than you realize.
Good design is often unabtrusive.
You don't spend time thinking about the design or 'learning' to use the site because the interface is simple, clear and consistent so you are free to concentrate on content. The following Summer 1998 Sample Educational and Professional Websites sample sites may give you some ideas and are available for use by LIU faculty and staff. There are links for both the actual web sites and for the the file structures the sites are based upon. Good file management is key to creating a maintainable site. This frees you to concentrate on content rather than design issues during development.