The Oxford Web Group is working with locally based businesses to provide technology advice and solutions, with a focus on helping businesses succeed.

Seminar 5: 17th May 2007

Powerpoints can be found here:

The Q+A is reproduced below:

What about Dreamweaver? Is this a good technology to use?
Dreamweaver is a tool for designing the HTML in your web pages, just like Photoshop is one tool for manipulating images - it does not play a part in serving up web pages to a browser once your website is up and running on a server. So it's less important to consider as part of future-proofing the website. But it's a useful tool in website creation.

What about Microsoft Expression?
This is a step ahead of Dreamweaver; no doubt Adobe will jump ahead with the next version of Dreamweaver.

I am considering creating an all-flash site.
Flash can be useful to display animations and interactive software; unfortunately it is difficult for Flash to interact with search engines, so the best way around this is to create an HTML-based site with Flash components where you need them.

What's it like conducting a usability test?
Very enlightening - you start off with a simple task for users to perform, which you can easily perform, and you quickly find out that there are areas of the site which aren't understood, or get missed, or misinterpreted. And you can see the fixes straight away.