Friday 24th April 2009, Training room, DIT Library, Aungier St., Dublin 2

0930 – 1630

Presenters:

Neil Andrews, Head of Department, School of Hospitality

Katherine Kenny, Acting Web Administrator, DIT

Fiachra Mangan, Library Services, DIT

Programme

0930

Welcome and introduction

0945

Managing Web Pages (Neil Andrews)

Managing Web pages

Top 10 dos and don’ts

Exercises and examples

1045

COFFEE

1115

Practical tips on managing web pages (Neil Andrews)

Fonts, colours (colours that go)

Separating design and content

Using images

Getting your pages noticed

Findability in search engines

1145

Web Development Toolkit (Katherine Kenny)

Web Development Toolkit

Firefox extensions – colorzilla, firebug, greasemonkey, screengrab, sourceviewer, url fixer, web developer toolbar etc.

1300

LUNCH

1400

Web Development Toolkit continued (Katherine Kenny)

1500

Practical exercises

1530

Google Analytics (Fiachra Mangan)

Using Google Analytics to gather usage statistics

1600

Q & A and Course evaluation