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Web Authoring Workshop Resources for Web Site Creation General resources: HTML Crash Course for Educators –metalab.unc.edu/edweb/htmlintro.html – Just what it says it is. OnlineClass –www.onlineclass.com/general/resources.html – A list of books intended for educators learning about how to develop web pages for school and classroom work. “Lynda" books – www.lynda.com – Lynda Weinman writes best-selling Web design books, available from Amazon.com (Web Graphics Resource Library, Designing Web Graphics, Coloring Web Graphics, Creative Web Design). Her Web site is a wealth of design ideas. NCSA – A Beginner’s Guide to HTML -- www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html – Basic information on putting together Web pages, from the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications. About.com HTML Home Page – html.about.com/compute/html – A ton of information about basic and advanced Web site issues. Builder.com – www.builder.com – A large, commercial site, but full of good stuff nevertheless. The Web Developer’s Virtual Library – www.stars.com – Don’t be intimidated by all the high-level, esoteric content. The “Beginner” and “Intermediate” pages have plenty of good basic information. Netscape HTML Reference Guide – developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/htmlguid/index.htm – A comprehensive guide to HTML tags and attributes. Web Pages That Suck – www.webpagesthatsuck.com – If you can get past the name, this is a great, if highly opinionated, guide to good and bad Web page design. Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability – www.useit.com/alertbox/ – Jakob Nielsen is an internationally recognized guru on Web site usability. He writes regular columns, which are collected in this site. You can also find a wealth of information on writing for the web at www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ Sun Microsystems' Web Style Guide – www.sun.com/styleguide – This cookbook guide is sure to help you make better web pages. Topics covered include graphics, page length, navigation, netiquette, and more. Sites that validate web pages: WebSiteGarage – http://www.WebSiteGarage.com/ – This site provides a variety of free maintenance and tune-up checks for your Web Site. Bobby - http://www.cast.org/bobby/ – A free service provided by CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) that identifies barriers to access by individuals with disabilities in your Web pages. Sources of free scripts: Want to incorporate bulletin boards, forms for users to submit, and similar interactive features in your site. One way to do this is through “scripts,” small program which run on the Web server. (Note: since these scripts run on the server, you’ll need to check with whoever is hosting your site about which, if any, of them they are willing to support, and precisely how to set them up.) Matt’s Script Archive – http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ – a couple of dozen free, well-tested and well-documented scripts, for Web boards, formmail, counters, etc. The CGI Resource Index – http://cgi.resourceindex.com/ – Several thousand scripts. Adding search capability to your site: Here are two free services that allow you to add a “Search” function within your site. Both are easy to set up and relatively unobtrusive. Atomz – http://www.atomz.com Freefind – http://www.freefind.com Software: The best html editor The best WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) HTML editor is generally acknowledged to be Macromedia Dreamweaver (http://www.macromedia.com). It is expensive (approx. $300 for Dreamweaver, $450 for Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio – Fireworks is a Web graphics program), but there are education packages for about half-price, and a donation program for 50(c)3 non-profits (see below). Free html editors Microsoft Front Page Express – a free add-on to Internet Explorer, it can be found, if installed, on the start menu under Programs--> Accessories --> Internet Tools. If not installed, there are different ways to get it, depending on which r=version of Internet Explorer you are using.
Netscape Composer – A free component of Netscape Communicator (Netscape 4.x) and Netscape 6, the newest version (also free). Download Netscape (for PC or Mac) from www.netscape.com/download. FTP programs For Windows PCs: WS_FTP LE – download from www.ipswitch.com/cgi/download_eval.pl?product=WL-1000 (1.1 Mb). This program is licensed free to non-commercial home users, students and faculty of educational institutions, and U.S. Federal, state and local government employees. For Macs: Fetch – download from http://fetchsoftworks.com/Download/download.html (1.2 Mb). This program is licensed free to users affiliated with educational institutions. Software donation programs: Compumentor – http://www.compumentor.org – Administers software donation programs for Microsoft and Lotus. Programs are available for small administrative fees to 501(c)3 non-profits. Tech Soup – http://www.techsoup.org/sub_downloads.cfm – A comprehensive list of major software corporations’ donation programs, with downloadable request forms.
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