School Website Design Resources
 Design Your Site
Designing
your Site (http://www.magpie.org/webcamp/day1/anatomy.html)
Although, they call this a "web presentation" rather than a site
design, all of the elements are here. Excellent resource for looking
at the ways to approach a topic and the process of designing the
site.
General
Recommendations on Design Issues
(http://www.magpie.org/webcamp/day2/morepres.html)
Some things to keep in mind when you design your web pages.
Web Traps
for the Internet Publisher
(http://www.techseminars.com/traps/traps.htm)
The 10 most common mistakes in creating a web site.
The T.H.E. Institute (http://www.thejournal.com/institute) offers
one of the few online courses on Designing
Your Web Site. It is for webmasters who already know how to
create pages and need to move a step beyond.
School
Web Page Development Guide
(http://www.massnetworks.org/~nicoley/schools/)
Excellent general guidelines for creating school home pages as
well as a list of content ideas to help you select appropriate
material for your own school's home page.
Web
Site Garage - Improve Your Web Site
(http://www.websitegarage.com/)
You can have one of your web pages "tuned up" free to see if you
like the service, before you buy.
Neilsen's
"Top Ten Design Mistakes" Illustrated
(http://php.indiana.edu/~rxaver/topten.html)
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Claris Home Page
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FrontPage
Website
Abstraction Frontpage Tutorial
(http://www.wsabstract.com/frontpage.htm)
Four lessons on the basics of Frontpage 97. No illustrations,
however, and not the most comprehensive lessons you'd want.
FrontPage
Tutorial- Table of Contents
(http://www.unr.edu/unr/edtech/fp/fptut_toc.html)
Nice tutorial through tables and frames. Includes illustrations
and bullet points.
FrontPage
Newsgroups
(http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/fp/default.asp)
Read the entries from some of these newsgroups. Also has a
downloadable white paper on step-by-step guide to create Frontpage
intranet.
Index
of Frontpage articles
(http://www.microsoft.com/Frontpage/techindx.htm)
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HTML
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Microsoft Word
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The Missing Link: How to Put Your Pages on the Internet
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Graphics
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Advanced Topics
- The JavaScript
Index (http://www.sapphire.co.uk/javascript/homepg.html) lists
some sites that use javascript.
- Java
Courses
(http://www.ibm.com/java/education/online-courses.html) IBM offers
FREE courses on Java programming. You can download one of several
versions to the courses - text, audio, video. What a
resource!
- JavaScript
Intermediate Tutorial
(http://208.215.76.13/CNetNO98/Kahn/index.html) This is an
EXCELLENT example of how to do a web presentation. Taken from the
Builder.com conference in December 1998, the presentation includes
links to live examples. Naturally, you can copy and paste the code
into your own pages, then modify it.
- The
CGI Index (http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/)
CGIs are the programs that run on your server and let you use
forms and other fancy things. This is definitely an advanced
topic. But when you're ready for it, here's a good place to
start.
- Ethernet
Tutorial
(http://www.lantronix.com/htmfiles/mrktg/catalog/etntba.htm)
- If you need to learn the jargon of a local area network, with
its hubs, routers, 10baseT, and repeaters, this is the place for
you. There is also a Fast
Ethernet white paper
(http://www.lantronix.com/htmfiles/whitepapers/lfrwp.htm) to
accompany this one.
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