This document provides information on various online platforms and tools for ICT content development. It discusses examples of online platforms like presentation/visualization tools, cloud computing, social media, web page creation, file management, and mapping. It also covers content management systems, blogging sites, web design principles and elements, website templates, and basic web page creation using Microsoft Word. Finally, it defines search engine optimization as a feature to maximize a website's visibility in search engines.

1. Online Platforms
for ICT Content
Development

2. What is an Online
Platform?
• are technologies that are
grouped to be used as a
base upon which other
applications processes or
technologies are developed

3. Examples of Online Platform
a. Presentation/Visualization
b. Cloud Computing
c. Social Media
d. Web Page Creation
e. File Management
f. Mapping

4. a. Presentation / Visualization
• communicates
information clearly and
efficiently via statistical
graphics, plots and
information graphics

5. Examples of Presentation /
Visualization
• Prezi – helping to reinvent
the art of presentation
• Zoho – an online project
management app that helps
you plan your work and
keep track of your progress

6. Examples of Presentation /
Visualization
• SlideShare – to build
quickly from concise, well-
presented content from top
experts
• MindMeister – an online
mind-mapping tool that lets
you capture, develop and
share ideas visually

7. b. Cloud Computing
• the practice of using a
network of remote servers
hosted on the internet to
store, manage, and process
data, rather than a local
server or a personal
computer

8. Examples of Cloud Computing:
• Google Drive – keep all
work in one secure place
with online file storage
• Dropbox – keeps your files
safe, synced, and easy to
share

9. c. Social Media
• are computer-mediated tools
that allow people, companies
and other organizations to
create, share, or exchange
information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in
virtual communities and
networks

10. Examples of Social Media
• Twitter – online social
networking service that
enables users to send
and read short 140-
character messages
called “tweets”

11. Examples of Social Media
• Facebook – is for-profit
corporation and online
social networking service
• Tumblr – a micro-blogging
platform and social
networking website

12. d. Web Page Creation
• encompasses a number
of important elements
including color, layout,
and overall graphical
appearance.

13. Examples Web Page Creation
• Wix – a cloud-based web
development platform that
allows users to create
HTML5 websites and mobile
sites through the use of
their online drag and drop
tools

14. Examples Web Page Creation
• Weebly – a web-hosting
service featuring a drag-
and-drop website builder.

15. e. File Management
• is the storing, naming,
sorting and handling
computer files

16. Examples of File Management
• Zamzar – web application
to convert files
• word2pdf – convert Word
files to PDF (Portable
Document Format) with this
online tool

17. f. Mapping
• a transformation taking
the points of one space
into the points of the
same or another space

18. Examples of Mapping
• Google Maps – a
desktop web mapping
service developed by
Google

19. CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

20. Content Management System (CMS)
• is a computer application
(sometimes online or browser-
based) that allows you to
publish, edit and manipulate,
organize and delete web
content. CMS is used in blogs,
news websites, and shopping

21. Blogs
• is a discussion or informational
website published on the web
consisting of discrete, often
informal diary-style text entries
("posts"). Posts are typically
displayed in reverse chronological
order, so that the most recent post
appears first, at the top of the web
page

22. Examples of Blogging Sites:
• WordPress (wordpress.com)
• Blogger (blogger.com or
blogspot.com)
• Blog.com
• Medium.com
• Squarespace.com

23. WEB DESIGN
PRINCIPLES
AND ELEMENTS

24. WEB DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND
ELEMENTS:
1. Consider the audience and goals.
2. It is advisable to plan the site on paper
first.
3. Strive for consistency
4. Provide a rich set of links within a site.
5. Don’t hide important information.
6. Provide opportunities for interaction.
7. Avoid text-only pages.
8. Don’t sacrifice elegance.

25. WEB DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND
ELEMENTS:
9. Provide a link for every URL used in the site.
10. Give a descriptive title of the site.
11. Include a brief introduction.
12.Make the site’s home page as useful a starting
point as possible.
13. Make sure the text is legible.
14. Make sure the site is platform independent.
15. Consider the needs of the viewers.
16.Thoroughly test the site and carefully
proofread.

26. WEBSITE
TEMPLATE

27. Website Template
• or web template, is a pre-
designed webpage, simply by
adding your text and
customization to create your
desired web page. It is usually
built with HTML and CSS
code.

28. Back in the day, you actually
need to learn HTML and CSS
to be able to create a decent
website, but today, we use a
WYSIWYG editor. It allows
you to create and design a
web page without any coding
knowledge.

29. WYSIWYG
• the acronym for “What You See Is
What You Get”
• this means that whatever you type,
insert, draw, place, rearrange, and
everything you do on a page is what
the audience will see. It shows and
prints whatever you type on the
screen.

30. Basic
Web Page
Creation

31. Creating a Website using
Microsoft Word
1.Open Microsoft Word.
2.Type anything on the page
like “Hello World!”
3.Click on File > Save As >
Type any file name.
4.In the Save as Type, select
“Web page (*.htm, *.html)”

33. Click the
Change Title
button.
Input the title
as seen
below, then
click OK then
Save.
Open your saved file and you will see that
you just created a webpage using MS
Word.

34. SEO

35. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
• or SEO
• a feature that maximizes
the search engine
optimization feature so
visitors can easily locate
your website