One thing that surprises almost all new web developers is how quickly their little project grows out of control. Well, to be honest, size-related problems often become obvious to the "readers" of the site long before the developers fully comprehend the problem...

What would be your definition of a "big" web site: 30 pages? 300? 3,000? 30,000?

No matter how big is "big" to you, it is important to think ahead, to follow good design principles, and to plan for expansion, growth, and ... success!

To give our discussion some focus, in this session we will consider some issues in the design of the web site for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Okefenokee Swamp [1] [2].

The session will start with a few thoughts on appropriate design for our particular (hypothetical) audience, will cover some ideas that should be applicable in this and other settings, and will conclude with examples and pointers to some useful tools for implementing the suggestions.

[2] Sorry! While there may be one or two such links at at the end of this lesson, I just didn't get this finished in time. Last time around, in person, we encouraged folks to look at the Geometry Center's site, and then the tech staff wandered around among the participants and discussed individually with folks why we had done certain things. I was going to try and excerpt some of the highlights, but...