Provide patrons a resource for obtaining information about the District. Provide teachers a forum for enhanced teaching and for informing patrons about classroom activities and policies. Provide students a place to demonstrate what they have learned. General statements of design Student and teacher web pages will meet the above goals. The three activities of visiting a web site are reading text, viewing images, and interacting with an interface.
Web publishing is an opportunity to demonstrate technical and graphic arts skills.
These skills should be used to support and enhance information, not to overpower that information. Every web site should start with a plan that evaluates the real needs of students, teachers, schools and patrons. Evaluation is to be followed by a careful design stage, then the construction of the site. Web sites require frequent updating and maintenance to evolve and stay current. Most people who visit a site will be there to get some sort of information.