Workshop: Creating Classroom and School Web Pages

| Description | Prerequisites | Materials | Objectives | Workshop Outline | Workshop Outline using Claris Home Page | Web Resources |

Description of Workshop

This workshop is designed to teach Web page design using Netscape Composer, which is included in Netscape Communicator. Participants will learn how to create and save Web pages, how to add images, tables, and hyperlinks to other Web pages, and finally how to post the Web page to be accessed with a browser on the WWW.

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Prerequisites

Workshops or Skills: Basic word processing skills, Internet experience with an understanding of search strategies and Internet terms such as link, hypertext, URL, bookmark, navigation, browser, WWW, download, upload, and source code.

Web Page Evaluation: It is very helpful to view other Web pages to assist you in creating a Web site of your own. Before embarking on the often time consuming task of designing your own Web site, look critically at other sites on the Internet, and look for such elements as ease of navigation, layout, download time, use of images, contact information and usefulness of content. Think about the features that strengthened the Web site so that you can adapt these ideas and possibly build them into a site of your own.

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Materials

Software: This workshop will use Netscape Composer, a component of Netscape communicator, to create web pages. Other Web editors include Claris Home Page, Adobe Page Mill, and Front Page by Microsoft. iMacs now ship with a copy of Page Mill, so if you have an iMac in your school, you have access to this software.

Content Material: It is the responsibility of each participant in this workshop to provide the specific content to be included in the web pages developed in this workshop.

Disks: Each participant should bring at least one high density floppy disk on which to store the web pages developed in this workshop. Keep in mind that it is always advisable to have more than one copy of a file.

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Objectives

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Workshop Outline using Claris Home Page

Workshop Outline

Getting Started

Parts of a Web Page

Elements of Good Web Page Design

Creating a Storyboard or a Plan for Your Site

Entering Text

Creating Tables

Adding Images

Adding Anchors

Linking to Other Web Pages (Internal and External)

Adding a Mailto Link

Giving a Title to a Web Page

Saving a Document as HTML

Timesaving Tips for Creating Web Sites

Evaluating Web Sites

Web Site Checklist

Troubleshooting

Copyright on the Internet

Uploading Your Web Site to a Server

Workshop Evaluation

 

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Web Resources

Collection of Clip Art and Images: Because finding clip art can be extremely time consuming, a collection of free images have been collected for this workshop. Other sources of Web graphics are listed below.

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