DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
ABU ZARIA


COURSE CODE: LIBS 882
COURSE TITLE: WEB DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT



DESIGNING YOUR WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL
AND
COMPLETENESS: FIRST STEP



REG.NO
MIM/EDUC/5145/2009-2010


BY
ABDULLAHI BILKISU MAHADI



LECTURER
DR.EZRA SHILOBA GBAJE



THE WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTONAL AND COMPLETENESS: FIRST STEP.

IINTRODUCTION
The Information age has a lot of facilities on the worldwide web as Instructional materials therefore Instructional Designers and Educators needs new Design Models to be able to live up o the expectations of the millions of Internet Users on the worldwide web.
Dick, Carey, and Carey (2001) states that the web is a combination of a variety of other Instructional media from Computer based Instructions (CBI) to interactive multimedia to deliver Information in plain text.
The Design of a model enable Instructional Designers to ensure Instructional websites with the necessary elements to support learning and its objectives, including a delivery medium an Instructional websites with the necessary element to ensure Instructional websites with the necessary elements to support medium and an Instructional medium (paper) that is the website present Information, offer interaction and anywhere on the web.
WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTONAL AND COMPLETENESS: FIRST STEP.
The Goal and Objectives of website
The websites should be able to take into considerations the overall goals and objectives for the Instructional system and websites, as well as list the major objectives to reach the goals, by using the lists of all details objectives written during analysis be it in list or in clusters for any specific unit of with a minimum of two to six Objectives.
Table
The Table is presented on the web in many ways as text and graphics on the Web pages. Interactions is needed in the able on the web from the various interactions between within the materials itself by way of quizzes, simulations. Connections from the web pages, to other parts of the web, which provide more Information, and also more Interactions.
Information Presentations
The web present Information to users of the websites in the form of text,data,images of all kinds from graphics to photographs,Illustrations,Images,sound and video and so on through links o other web sites which is designed, organize and described other Information and Interaction that will further the goals of the websites.
Interactions on the web
The Designer should be able to provide active learning and Interaction with the Information, Instructor and other Students users, its necessary to decide the kinds of interactions that will help attain the goals and objectives of the website which are varies and many (Liaw and Huang 2000)
THE MODEL
Organizational Structure
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES INFORMATION INTERACTION CONNECTIONS
Design an organizational Structure
Provide reference to Books, inside and outside,online lecture on Organizational Structure
The lecture will help users go through the pages and also provide a self assessment at the end Link to other articles, about Organizational Structure on other websites


SUMMARY
The model produce most ensure that Instructional Websites and WebPages should be based on the Users characteristics like how users read and process text on the web pages or the Computer in general, there sense of navigation through the web.(Anderson 1980)
CONCLUSION
Websites are for users therefore designer give glizt, substance, meaningfull interactions while some of the design webs are meaningless, full of nude videos and indiscriminate links, and yet the web is supposed to give designers of the web a way and guide to design instructional websites that will serve users Information needs.
REFERENCE
Ezra Shiloba Gbaje (2010).Effective website design Skills Compiled, ABU Zaria,
Department of Library and Information Science.