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