Workshop on Website Design and Management

Organiser: WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Bangladesh Section

Venue: VLSI Lab, Department of EEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Date: 06/02/2015

A workshop on website design and management using visual What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) web editor “WIX” was organized by WIE BD on the 6th of February, 2015 at VLSI Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET. The instructor was Ms. Mushfika Baishakhi Upama, Webmaster, WIE BD Executive Committee 2014. Participants included 12 women from various backgrounds with little to no experience in website development.

During the workshop Ms. Upama, provided a walkthrough of the key steps involved in setting up, designing, editing and maintaining a website on WIX as well as taking questions from participants on more niche aspects of website management. The workshop was targeted at casual internet users without any prior experience in web design or knowledge of web development languages. WYSIWYG web editors offer a convenient, efficient, and user-friendly alternative to writing websites from scratch.

Visual web editors are computer programs that let the user design their web page without your needing any knowledge of web development languages like HTML or CSS. Web pages are designed visually on the computer using, so that what you see in on the computer screen is what you get on your website. Hence referred to as "WYSIWYG web editors" for short. As the user designs his web page, these editors generate HTML and CSS code behind the scenes. They are a quick and easy-to-learn method of making websites, since anybody, laypersons included, can create websites with such tools.