1/98 Agenda

Powerpoint Presentations

• Learning HTML
• Creating Your Homepage

Review of Netscape

• Using Netscape
• Navigator Gold Authoring Guide (Guide book for HTML editor)
• Internet Safety

Good School Web Sites

• Cool School Home Pages
• Web 66 -- the most complete list of K-12 schools on the 'Net internationally
• Interesting Web Sites You Might Want to Link to Your Page

Sample Homepages

• Homepages from the May 27, 1998 Workshop
• Homepages from the January 9th and 16th, 1998 Workshop
• Sample Personal Page
• Sample of School Homepage

Using Netscape Navigator Gold  (if you don't want to write the code)

• Download Netscape Navigator Gold --a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
• Navigator Gold's Online Documentation--won't tell you everything you need to know to use Navigator Gold's editing capabilities, but it will help you get started.

Navigator Gold's Toolchest--includes illustrations and backgrounds to use for your website. Check it out even if you aren't using Navigator Gold.

HTML Guides (so you want to write the code...)

• Worksheet for Personal Homepage
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Cheat Sheet to HTML Tags (handy reference)
• Composing Good HTML
• ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
• HTML Crash Course -- a very clear and simple starting point.
• Yahoo HTML Section

On-line Resources for Adding Images & Extras

• Creating Images for the WWW (background info.)
• 5 Ways to Create Images for the WWW
• Teacher Icons (teacher icons to help get you started)
• (How you can use colors on your website)
• Clip Art (Great place to get everything)
• Allison Zhang's Web Tools (A Webmaster Tool Chest: cgi forms, tables, frames, icons)
• Bells and Whistles (Another great place to get lots of animated images and other add-on's to your homepage)
• Andy's Art Attack (Backgrounds, Bullets, Buttons, Gifs, SLOW DOWNLOADING TIME)
• (The Design Shoppe (Small Gifs, graphics, distinctive backgrounds, graphics, and more)
• A Great Background Pattern Resource
• More Backgrounds
• More Backgrounds
• Adding a counter to your page

Software for Web Site Development

• NJNIE Software Site --includes ftp, graphics, and telnet software that may be useful when making homepages.
• Download HTML Editors from the Tucows Software Site --for Windows 3.x, for Windows 95, or for the Macintosh.

Graphics Converters

Setting Up Your Site -- File Transfer Protocol and Some Basic Unix Commands

• How to FTP Your Home Page to K12SCIENCE Using the Macintosh Fetch Program
• How to FTP Your Home Page to the K2SCIENCE, Using WS-FTP--an FTP program for Windows
• How to FTP Your Home Page to the K2SCIENCE, Using Navigator Gold
• How to FTP Your Home Page to In Jersey Using WS-FTP--an FTP program for Windows
• From the Stevens Humanities Lab: Basic UNIX Commands For Web Pages Handout 
• From the Rutgers Graduate School of Education Lab: Basic UNIX Commands For Web Pages Handout 

Getting Your School a Home on the World Wide Web

• FREE Webpage Provider List

How Others Can Find Your Homepage

• Meta Tag Builder - Help the search engines list you
• Submit It--register your site with various search engines
• Register your homepage with Web66
• Did-it (Check to see if your web site is registered on the major search engines. Give URL and they will email the results to you.)

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