Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web
Think Big: Designing a Web Site

Assist Your Audience

Over the years, I have researched and visited a number of campuses. Increasingly, in recent years, I have used the Web to obtain both preliminary and more detailed information. I have done this as a faculty-colleague, as a hired consultant, as a publishing company editor, and as a job-seeker. One thing I can tell you, from experience, is that many web sites do adequately address the needs of:

But very, very few even attempt to address both, and fewer still succeed...

Let's see what issues come up, and how we can address them, as we develop some preliminary pages for the web site of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Okefenokee Swamp (aka U O'Swamp).

Some preliminary pages already exist, and we'll link to them shortly. During the workshop, I may revise them, and may even add a few others, based on the suggestions of workshop participants...

In particular, any time you see a list that ends with the item:

it indcates a place where, in an on-site course, I'd have asked for student input in compiling the list (rather than present it as fully as I've done here), and would likely have included some other suggestions generated that way. So, you should feel free to offer suggestions via the course discussion list and some of them will get added, either during this workshop, or before it is repeated...


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Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Scheftic. All rights reserved. (This course is based on a workshop originally offered at The Geometry Center and adapted with permission.) Please send comments on this page, or requests for permission to re-use material from this page, to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu
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