2. Purpose
● Give you a list of best practices when
creating your teacher website.
● Gain a better understanding of what makes
a great teacher website.
3. Think About
● Your own internet browsing habits.
○ Do you:
■ Get frustrated when you can’t find basic
information?
■ Hate scrolling forever?
■ Leave a website if you can’t read the font?
■ Hate “busy” sites?
● Who is your website for?
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You
Students
Parents
All
7. Don’t
● ALL CAPS (stop
yelling at me!)
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Too small
● Underline text that is
not a link
● Rainbow Font
● Lots of scrolling
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● Contrasting background
and text
● Misspelling wards
● Usng txt spch...lol
● Hard to read fonts
● Changing fonts all the
time
Stretches across the whole page because you have written way too much and it
doesn’t flow well with what you have above or below your bullets and there is no
reason to have this much text in one line because you have created three or four
sentences anyway.
9. Do
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Use an easy to read font
Narrow columns
Less is better
Hierarchy is clear
○ Heading, Subheading, Text
● Background does not interfere with text
15. Orphan Pages
● Make sure every page has a way to get to
another page, without using the browser
back button.
16. Useless Page Title
● Example (Off Your Home Page)
○ Links
■ Links to what? Who are they for...parents,
students, both?
○ Pictures
■ Are they pictures of you, your students, sports,
school events?
17. Inconsistent
● If your navigation links are always on the left
side, don’t move them.
● Make sure your links are also a consistent
color.
18. Do
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Be very conscious of your navigation
Be clear in page titles
Less is better
Easy to get back home
Leave a site index
