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A website or web site is a set of related
resources from the web. These resources
were considered as web pages and
multimedia (e.g.: videos, music, images).
Topic: ICT ONLINE PLATFORMS IN CREATING WEB CONTENT Teacher: Sir Arjay Costelo Angcaya
A platform-enabled website or online platform
gives a feature on which allows to manipulate the
content of the website. Most of the online platforms
requires you to register in order to publish,
manipulate, organize, or even delete a certain web
content.
1. Social Media Platforms
This platform allows you to create your
personal account or profile. After you
register on this website, it will allow you to
create pages or even groups where you can
share content and ideas. Social Media
platforms enables you to connect yourself to
other users and get updates on their news
feed. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are
examples of Social Media platforms.
2. Blogging Platforms
A platform on where a writer or even a
group of writers can share views on an
individual subject. It is comparable to a
newsletter where you can add menus,
designs or even multimedia of a subject.
Blogger is an example of blogging site. If
you love to write or you want to share
ideas online, blogging platforms is the
perfect tool you can use.
3. Content Management System or CMS
One of the features of this platform is
that you can publish your own website
and manage its content through intranet
or in a single computer. This is a
software where you can easily create,
update, organize, and publish the
content of your website. A popular
example of CMS is WordPress.
Web page is designed for World Wide Web on which it is
consider as the document inside it. Mozilla FireFox, Google
Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Apple's Safari are web browsers
which you can use in order to access a web page.
Nowadays, web pages serve as an important role in the
business world. Web pages allows businesses to showcase their
company and advertise their products. Even social media sites
allow users to boost their popularity, this will help the users to
promote their business or advocacy to other users online.
1. Text - this is a mandatory element
of a web page. However, visitors got
distracted about the font family of the
text on website. So, while you are
designing your website, make sure that
to choose well the font family and type
that you need to use on your design
and make the text is clear and in
readable size.
2. Graphics / Illustrations -
make sure your images or
illustrations are not pixelated or
must be on good quality. There
are times that text give
description to an image, so you
make that these two elements are
well arranged.
3. White Space - having a
crowded website, it is very
hard to direct the attention
of your visitor's eye. These
white space gives your
website a room to breathe.
4. Links - links or
hyperlinks allows user to
jump to another site or
page that is related to
your site.
5. Color - the colors you use in
your design is a very important
aspect. There are times that colors
become visually distracting to your
viewers. As some web designers do,
they use the company logo of their
client as their color reference on
their website.
6. Video/Audio - there are sites
use audio/video to help their
visitors to better understand what
they are selling or teaching.
These elements of web designing
really help your visitors
especially those websites that
offers tutorial of certain subject.
With the use of elements of web design
will make your website more appealing to
your users but you need to make sure that
your website is functional, responsive and
useful. To create a usable and effective
website, follow the basic principles of an
effective web design.
A. Portable Design - website design must be
portable and accessible. Your need to must
compatible with other operating system and web
browsers. You should also design your website on
which it can be access to a different computer
platforms or devices especially for those visitors who
uses mobile device to access a website.
B. Design for Low Bandwidth - not all user
who are online are connected to a high-speed
internet connection. In designing a website,
you need to avoid large graphics or
animations as the users may leave the site if
downloading is slow.
C. Direction - identify the order of
importance of the various elements and
place them in a sequence where the eye
moves and perceives the things it sees. There
should be consistent layout and structure.
D. Simplicity - the more option you place
in your site, the more difficult it is for a
visitor to make a decision and more time is
required to browse through them. as what
they usually say "simplicity is beauty".
WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you
get". There many tools on creating or designing a
website. However, there are tools offers WYSIWYG process.
These are tools on which the content (text and graphics)
can be edited in a form closely resembling its appearance
when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as
a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.
1. Wix - Its interface is one of the
most intuitive, slick, and powerful
in the ever-growing group of
website-building services. Wix
offers standout features, such as
online storage for your site assets,
cool video backgrounds,
animations for titles, and mobile.
2. Weebly - This free website
builder allows you to build
beautiful websites in a very
short period of time – even if
you do not have any
programming background.
3. WordPress - is the world’s
most popular tool for creating
websites. WordPress is capable of
creating any style of website, from
a simple blog to a full-featured
business website. You can even use
WordPress to create an online
store.
4. Drupal - It is a well-known
content management system
intended to help advanced
designers create a powerful
website capable of handling
large volumes of visitors and
hundreds of pages of content.
Web mapping applications are Web sites
developed from geographical information system
(GIS) data. Mapping applications use GIS to create a
visualize maps. Today, a Web map is used not only
for directions and locations but also to track
consumer activity and to locate stores and
establishments.
Google Maps – This is a Web mapping
application developed by Google. It shows
both graphic and satellite maps. The maps
include street names, building names,
establishment names, and bus and train
stations, to name a few. Some extension
applications include three-dimensional views
of the satellite images and traffic conditions.
To access Google Maps,
http://www.google.com.ph/maps/
Wikimapia - This is a collaborative
open content mapping application.
Wikimapia offers satellite view of
streets, buildings, and
establishments. This Web site uses
Google Maps APIs for mapping. To
access Wikimapia,
http://wikimapia.org
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