• The Most Important Thing
• Must-Have's
• Frames
• Flash
• CMS

This is the text of a talk I gave at the BJC conference, "Learning on the Edge … the River's Edge", on 24 September 2003.

Hello, and good afternoon. My name is Scott Granneman, and I'm here today to talk about a subject that has been my primary professional and personal focus for almost a decade: Web sites.

Let me first give you a little background about me. I'm an instructor at Washington University in the areas of technology and Web development and at Florissant Valley Community College in the subjects of Web development and the Linux operating system. I'm a consultant with Bryan Consulting, where we work with small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits to improve their technology usage, especially in the area of Web site development and hosting. And finally, I'm an author. I write columns for Security Focus, the largest IT Web site devoted to security, and I'm writing a book for Apress Books in San Francisco about open source software. As you can tell, I'm a busy technologist, and I'm proud of it.

I'm going to talk today about four things:

1. The most important thing in Web development
2. Web Site Must-Have's
3. Web Site Probably-Not's
4. Content Management Systems

The Most Important Thing

Web Site Must-Have's

Web Site Probably-Not's

I've talked about things that a good Web site should have. Now I want to discuss a couple of things that your Web site probably should not have. Notice that I said 'probably'—as I said, rules are meant to be broken, so you may have just the perfect situation that requires some of the following items. But I doubt it!

Frames

Flash

Content Management Systems