WebComm School: Making Web Sites Out of Nothing At All

We started WebComm School as a way to help us teach (and refresh) how to undertake web projects. This is especially important with our temporary and student workers. Many of them have little to no formal training in web development, and we wanted our office to be a good training ground.

We figure this will help us not only improve the quality of work our office produces, but also provide a pool of web designers and programmers who can be hired full-time by those departments who need them (even us, hopefully).

We do this weekly, and we take two hours. One hour is devoted to a technical presentation (by Laird) and one is devoted to concepts and principles of design (by me).

So, this week, my presentation was on coming up with content when a department doesn't provide you with anything. We've all been in the situation where a department needs a web site, but they haven't given us anything. So, hopefully this presentation will help us get basic sites up when content is sparse.

Here's the presentation:

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