WEE Online ICT Platforms as Tools for

K4 ICT Content Development

We are on the Information Age on which information seems so easy to reach. One of the
tools that we usually use if you need to answer a question from your subject is a website
which can we use if we are online. A website or web site is a set of related resources from
the web. These resources were considered as web pages and multimedia (e.g.: videos,
music, images).

On the listed items you presented in our previous activity, it shows that website is a tool
for information and entertainment. However, there are websites that offers you more than
just reading articles or listening to your music, these are what we call online platform-enabled
website.
A platform-enabled website or online platform gives a feature on which allows to
manipulate the content of the website. Most of the online platforms requires you to register in
order to publish, manipulate, organize, or even delete a certain web content. As a Senior
High School student, you are expected to know the different online platform as this would
help you in different task like connect people, stream your daily activity, shop online, or even
creating a website of your own.
Before I introduce the different type of online platforms which you can use. Let's take a
close look on how technologies are use these days. Take a look at the picture below.

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The picture on this page shows that each one of us has skill of being an information
literate since information can be reach just a click away. It is only up to us to how we create
or how we evaluate the information that we garnered from online resources.

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Here are the three types of online platforms:
1. Social Media Platforms

This platform allows you to create

your personal account or profile. After you
register on this website, it will allow you to
create pages or even groups where you
can share content and ideas. Social Media
platforms enables you to connect yourself
to other users and get updates on their
news feed.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are
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2. Blogging Platforms
A platform on where a writer or even a
group of writers can share views on an
individual subject. It is comparable to a
newsletter where you can add menus, designs
or even multimedia of a subject. Blogger is an
example of blogging site. If you love to write or
you want to share ideas online, blogging
platforms is the perfect tool you can use.

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3. Content Management System or CMS
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you can publish your own website and
manage its content through intranet or in a
single computer. This is a software where you
can easily create, update, organize, and
publish the content of your website. A popular
example of CMS is WordPress.

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 1. Text - this is a mandatory element of a web page. However, visitors got distracted
about the font family of the text on website. So while you are designing your website, make
sure that to choose well the font family and type that you need to use on your design and
make the text is clear and in readable size

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2. Graphics/ Illustrations - make sure your images or illustrations are not pixelated or
must be on good quality. There are time that text give description to an image, so you make
that these two elements are well arranged.

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3. White space - having a crowded website, it is very hard to direct the attention of your
vistor's eye. These white space gives your website a room to breathe.

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4. Links - links or hyperlinks allows user to jump to another site or page that is
related of to your site.

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5. Color - the colors you use in your design is a very important aspect. There are times
that colors become visually distracting to your viewers. As some web designers do, they
use the company logo of their client as their color reference on their website.

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6. Video/Audio - there are sites use audio/video to help their visitors to better
understand what they are selling or teaching. These elements of web designing really
helps your visitors especially those websites that offers tutorial of certain subject.

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7. Background - texture or background gives a more appealing sight to your

website. This will provide your website a feeling of a surface underneath.

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With the use of elements of web design will make your website more appealing to your
users but you need to make sure that your website is functional, responsive and useful. To
create a usable and effective website, follow the basic principles of an effective web design.
A. Portable Design - website design must B. Design for Low Bandwidth - not all
be portable and accessible. Your need to user who are online are connected to a
must compatible with other operating high-speed internet connection. In designing
system and web browsers. You should a website you need to avoid large graphics
also design your website on which it can be or animations as the users may leave the
access to a different computer platforms or site if downloading is slow.
devices especially for those visitors who
uses mobile device to access a website.

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C. Direction - identify the order of
importance of the various elements and
place them in a sequence where the
eye moves and perceives the things it
sees. There should be consistent layout and
structure.
D. Simplicity - the more option you
place in your site, the more difficult it is for a
visitor to make a decision and more time is
required to browse through them. as what
they usually say "simplicity is beauty".
Figure 1: Principles of web design
E. Regular testing – every device or
project needs maintenance, same as your
website. Website should be regularly
upgraded, updated and tested so that
problems will be quickly resolved. Visitors
who have encounter any errors like
problems in loading or viewing in your
website will not hold on.

Portable Design Simplicity

Design for Low

Web Design
Bandwidth

Regular Testing
Direction

Web Page Design Using Templates and Online WYSIWYG.

WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get". There many tools on
creating or designing a website. However, there are tools offers WYSIWYG process. These
are tools on which the content (text and graphics) can be edited in a form closely resembling
its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document,
web page, or slide presentation.
1. Wix -. Its interface is one of the most intuitive, slick, and powerful in the ever- growing
group of website-building servicesWix offers standout features, such as online storage for
your site assets, cool video backgrounds, animations for titles, and mobile.(Retrieved from
https://sea.pcmag.com/wix/8396/wix)

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2. Weebly - This free website builder allows you to build beautiful websites in a very
short period of time – even if you do not have any programming background.
(Retrieved from https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/website-builders/weebly/free
-website-builder-for-all/)

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3. WordPress - is the world’s most popular tool for creating websites. WordPress is
capable of creating any style of website, from a simple blog to a full-featured business
website. You can even use WordPress to create an online store. (Retrieved from
https://wpapprentice.com/blog/what-is-wordpress/)

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editor-265132/
4. Drupal - It is a well-known content management system intended to help
advanced designers create a powerful website capable of handling large volumes of
visitors and hundreds of pages of content. (Retrieved from
https://www.business.com/reviews/drupal/)

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