Meeting the needs of your viewers is the most important principle in web site design. The purpose of this guide is to offer basic design principles that you can use to make your college web site as easy to understand and use as possible.

Follow steps 1 through 4 to organize, design and publish a college web site.

• Step One - How to plan a college web site
  Learn how to organize web site information and develop an effective navigation structure
  
• Step Two - Who can use the CMS?
  This section will help you determine if your college web site can be created using the CMS.
  
• Step Three - How to use the CMS
  This section contains an overview of the CMS, short video tutorials to help you understand the basic skills essential to creating web pages using the CMS and a link to the CMS user guide.
  
• Step Four - Design Guidelines for your college web site
  These guidelines will you understand web page design including; design consistency, text formatting, graphics for the web and going live.