Planning a mini website
I can design an accessible and user-friendly three-page website with clear layout and navigation.
Planning a mini website
I can design an accessible and user-friendly three-page website with clear layout and navigation.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Effective design of a webpage considers usability, readability, accessibility.
- A website is a collection of web pages hyperlinked together.
- Website design creation focuses on the layout of pages and the navigation between them.
- Effective implementation of a web site design includes an organised file structure for the resources on each page.
Keywords
Website - a collection of web pages around a common theme
Readability - how easy it is to read and understand text
Accessibility - consideration of design so that what is created is usable by everyone
Common misconception
Users don't ever see the underlying file structure of a website, so it's organisation is unimportant.
Organisation of resources can make the creation and maintainence of websites an easier task. The quicker a developer of website can find the component parts, the less time will be wasted when changes need to be made.
To help you plan your year 11 computer science lesson on: Planning a mini website, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 11 computer science lesson on: Planning a mini website, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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Equipment
Access to the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Code Editor or some other means of creating HTML files.
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
how easy it is to read and understand text
ensures websites are usable by everyone
connects the pages of a website
helps developers find resources efficiently