Educational web & media production

This is a series of web modules (in development), which are designed for educators and educational web designers to become familiar with a range of topics in website design and production.

They provide technical advice for website production, and links to resources for further exploration. Macromedia Dreamweaver and WebCT are the principal formats used for educational website production at UNSW, and these sites particularly explore the use of these tools, but the principles discussed have wide application to website production in general, regardless of specific software.

The following topics will be covered - those with links are already online:

Producing content for the web

• Producing text for your website: formatting text content, document conversion, PDF, OCR, copyright.
• Producing images for your website: graphic design, image acquisition and processing
• Producing media for your website: video & audio

Website design & construction

• Constructing your website: HTML

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues and techniques: Course design, web design, adaptive technologies

Information specifically related to WebCT may be found through the UNSW WebCT CE Support site, or the UNSW WebCT Vista Support site.

These modules may be used as tutorials - simply work through the menu items in a linear fashion. Or, if you are looking for information on a particular topic, please go to the section maps for each area.

Links are provided to many other resources available on the web - a full list of resources can be found in the Links & tools section of each site.

Printable versions of the sites are available here.