Website do curso de Produção Editorial - UFSM: proposta de estrutura e recursos multimídia para obtenção da visibilidade

Abstract

This experimental project is about proposing the structure and development of the Comunicação Social – Produção Editorial’s course website, together with CPD, the Data Processing Center of UFSM, in an attempt to apply the knowledge about Digital Media e Web Production obtained in the graduation and added to the recent researches about Information Architecture. The project is based on discussions about themes like cyberspace, cyberculture, Information and Communication Technologies and multimedia resources’ evolutions, open access movement as northers to the proposition that longs to the information visibility and its free access on the Web. We did a survey with the course academics to understand their needs and requests. 92% of the answers, we note that they consider extremely important the creation of the course website. So, the website development had involved the exploration of the necessary content and the structuring and drafting of this information, following concepts of information architecture, usability and navigability. It also involved the creation and strategic use of multimedia resources in the website pages.