Getting started: Writing, Research, Content Creation

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First decide on what sort of a subject or topic you want to work on; in other words, what will your website project be all about. The 2 videos below will give you an idea of the sort of stuff that is expected as an outcome of this course:

Now lets get to practicalities: Before all else you will need to create a site map in order to get a better handle on how your content will get distributed and hierarchized across your site. 

A really good way to do this is by using a mindmaping software. Lots of them online, one of the best ones I found is mindmeister. 

Once you have created an outline map what you will need to do next is writing the text that will fill your pages. You absolutely need to do this because, as I already talked about at length in the 2 videos above, there is no way that you can create a work of graphic design without text and without content. So, before you go into the web editor you need to have the stuff that you will be placing there ready to hand. 

You can write the text on any text software but a good one to use is google docs where you can also re-create the pages that you decided upon in your site map as bookmarks using the different headings. Again, you will see some pointers as to how to do that in the first video above.