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HTML Basics | Web Page Design | Clip Art | Background Images
You and your students can be web publishers. You've enjoyed getting lots of tremendous resources from the web. Now it is time to think of what you can give back to the web. Once you think of your content, there are design issues to consider.
HTML Basics The good news is that you don't have to be a technowizard to write effective web pages for learning. Experiment with the beginnings of HTML and once you get the idea of using the tags, switch over to a HTML web page editor such as Adobe PageMill or Claris Home Page.
There are shareware editors that are available also. These editors can make web publishing as straight forward as word processing or desktop publishing. This allows you to spend your time on developing the content of the pages.
- Beginner's Guide to HTML is a great course!
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- Web66 Eight Minute HTML Primer
- Intermediate HTML is for those wanting to go beyond the beginning basics.
Web Page Design As you already know, not all web pages are attractive or readable, so here are some excellent sites to assist you in design issues.
- 10 Tips for WebMasters
- Home Page Design
- The Eggman's Concise Rules for a Successful Website - Besides giving a good process of what to do to develop a good website there is also a link to a good article: What Every Webmaster Should Know About Copyright Law - A short article which addresses some of the most
common questions encountered in The Eggman's seminars and public appearances.- The Web Designer includes a web tutorial as well as links to web page editors, clip art and much more.
- Yale Web Style Manual
- Designing School Web Sites to Deliver - This is a super collection of resources by From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal.
- Less Is More
Clip Art Looking for just the right clip art for your page? Don't go overboard, but here are some sites that have lots of free clip art for web pages. Enjoy!
- Clip Art and Icons
- Clip Art, Clip Art, and more Clip Art!
- Clip Art Review
- Free Clip Art
- Public Domain Pictures
- ICONZ...The Ultimate Free Icons Collection for Your Web Page
- Randy's Icon Bazaar
- The Icon Browser
- Robyn's Road to Web Builder Resources
Background Images Choosing the right background can set the tone for your page. Check out these sites to experiment with background colors and text colors. Remember that the more contrast you have the easier it will be to read your page.
- ColorMaker is a fantastic tool that allows you to experiment with background color, text color , etc. and then creates a page to show you what it looks like. Not only is this a good tool for you, but it would also be good for your students as they create their own web pages.
- HTML Background Color Selector
- Background Pictures