Presenter: Conor Pope, Deputy Editor, Irish Times on the web

Friday 11th June 2004, Training room, DIT Library, Aungier St., Dublin 2

0930 – 1600

Programme

0930

Welcome and introduction

0940

Style

The art of the introduction

Exercises and examples

1045

COFFEE

1115

Sub-editing

Essential sub-editing skills

Good and bad – examples and exercises

Writing for the Web

Levels of interest

Organisation

1230

LUNCH

1330

Design and usability

Why usability? Making the most of on-screen space.

Linking. Paper versus screen design.

1430

Headlines and headers – what works and what does’nt.

1500

Content – legal and related issues.

1530

Q & A

Conclusions

Course evaluation