Producing content for the web - Overview

These modules are being developed for educators and educational web designers who wish to produce content for their educational website.

They provide discussion of generic issues and technical advice for content production, with links to resources for further exploration. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and WebCT are the principal formats recommended for educational website production at UNSW, and these pages particularly explore the use of these tools, but the principles discussed have wide application to website production in general, regardless of specific software.

The sites may be used as tutorials - simply work through the menu items in a linear fashion (see the Tutorial Structure within each module).
If you are looking for reference information on a particular topic, please go to the section map.
I have also provided links to many other resources available on the web - a full list of resources can be found in the Links & tools.
Printable versions of the sites are available here.

The following topics are covered:

Producing text content

• Creating documents
• Formatting text
• Converting Word documents
• Using PDF documents
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Copyright issues

Producing visual content

• Issues for visual content in educational websites
• Image production issues: Resolution, compression and file formats, web colour issues
• Image acquisition: Scanning, digital cameras, downloading images, copyright issues
• Image manipulation: Resizing and cropping, selective enhancing and retouching, adding text
• Image creation: Basic design principles, using colour, creating simple graphics in Photoshop

Media production (video and audio)

• Video production: planning, production, post-production
• Web delivery: compression, file formats, streaming