Individual Role

I am the Content Manager for my group. My tasks are to organize information, check spelling and grammar of articles, and I have to make sure that information is useful. I also have to make sure that repetition is not too much of a problem and I have to make sure that articles are not too short and that they are in chunks.

Information that is useful to help me with being a Content Manger is:

Summarizing what the site is about on the front page, but not to make it lengthy.

Fragmentation as in putting information into segments. However, too many segments with little information will frustrate and overwhelm the user.

Instead of using paragraphs, lists would be better. They help organize a lot more and they give a subject, then give the information.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html

Linking: Redundancy is okay when writing a web page, but putting links for more information about a subject is very helpful.

http://www.webstyleguide.com/site/organize.html

Divide information into useful units: Most important information should be near the top. Put only information the user wants.

Importance of units: How important is the unit? Not so much? If so, the less important things should be put lower on the list.

Structures and relations of units

The user is there for information, not reading, so cut right to the chase.

http://www.usability.gov/design/writing4web.html

I will also need to make sure that the designer does not use too many graphics, otherwise the page might take quite some time to load.
http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/wftw2.html

I also have to make sure that the whole website will appeal to the user. That means not too many colors, no distractions, readable text, and the user gets what they are looking for.