The first
and most important step in designing a good instructional web site is
to decide on your purpose for the web site. Is the web site to introduce
yourself to your students, is it to provide basic information about
your courses such as syllabi and meeting times? Do you want to use your
website to develop a knowledge base on the subject your are teaching,
or display student papers? There are many possible purposes, but different
purposes can lead you to design very different web sites and to use
very different web development tools.
