HINTS FOR STORYBOARDING

 Some things to think about when developing your storyboard are as follows:

·         Which topics will go on each page?

 A simple rule of thumb is to have each topic represented by a single page. If you have several topics, however, maintaining and linking them can be a daunting task, consider combining smaller, related topics onto a single page instead. Don’t go overboard and put everything on one page, however; your visitors still have to download your document over the Net, Having several medium -  sized pages (such as the size of tow to ten pages in your word processor) is better than having one monolithic page or hundreds of little tiny pages.

·         What are the primary forms of navigation between pages?

 What links will you need for your visitors to navigate from page to page? They are the main links in your document that enable your visitors to accomplish the goals you defined in the first section. Links for forward, back, up, down, and home all fall under the category of primary navigation.

·         What alternative forms of navigations are you going to provide?

 In addition to the simple navigation links, some websites contain extra information that’s Parallel to the main web content, such as a glossary of terms, and alphabetical index of concepts, copyright information, or a credits page. Consider these extra forms of information when designing your plan, and thing about how you’re going to link them into the main content.

·         What will you put on your home page?

 Because the home page is the starting point for the rest of the information in your website, consider what sort of information you’re going to put on the home page’ a general summary of what’s to come? A list of links to other topics? Whatever you put on the home page, make sure that it’s compelling enough so that members of your intended audience want to stick around.

·         What are your goals?

 As you design the framework for your website, keep your goals in mind, and make sure that you aren’t? obscuring your goals with extra information or content.

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 Several utilities and packages can assist you in storyboarding. Foremost among them are site-management packages that can help you manage links in a site, view a graphical   representation of the relationship of documents in your site, move documents around, and automatically update all relevant links in and to the documents. Some examples include consumer products such as Microsoft front page and adobe Dreamweaver.