How To Build and Customize Your Own WebSite
Many tutorials, both free and at low cost, can be identified to teach Web site design...
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Many tutorials, both free and at low cost, can be identified to teach Web site design. The sites referenced here, including Writing HTML, have been built especially for teachers.
Use W3 School's HTML Tutorial as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. The site can be used as an introduction, or allow you to plumb the depths of HTML and Internet coding.
Suite101's Website Creation is another site provide how-to instruction, tips and product reviews for everything related to web site creation. Categories include authoring & site design, graphics, multimedia, programming & scripting, and site management.
Filamentality, part of the Knowledge Network at PacBell, makes great suggestions for customizing Web pages with ever-increasing sets of enabling tools in a user-friendly format.
The style manual at Yale has been adopted by many schools and universities. Topics include graphical displays and positioning of information. Just as teachers have shown students models for writing essays for decades now Web page production models can be illustrated.
Useit is representative of many sites targeted to "webmasters" -- advice, gossip, website design, reviews of tools and so on.
Nicenet hearkens back to the early internet era when the peer-to-peer nature of the net reigned. This site enables anyone to set up an online classroom where users can conference (a private, threaded discussion), schedule events, share documents and links, and personal messaging. This site works with any browser.
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With the web editing tools available today, one no longer needs to learn HTML. However, a basic understanding will allow you to identify and correct simple problems with your pages.
Plug-ins, software and other enhancements for multimedia projects have been entered in the Multimedia Room.
XML, a system of tags, underlying HTML, has gained momentum as a mechanism for standardizing Web resources for education. This change may not affect your work and the above software for a while but just be alert to its usage.
