Making a Web Page

Why?

Beyond Vanity: Your Personal Space on the Web: http://edvista.com/claire/notvanity.html

A Personal Website for Effective Teaching: http://edvista.com/claire/personalweb.html

Interesting articles:

Writing Oneself in Cyberspace by Daniel Chandler http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/homepgid.html

The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life:Goffman on the Internet by Hugh Miller
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/soc/psych/miller/goffman.htm

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How?

HTML Crash Course for Educators, Andy Carvin: http://www.edwebproject.org/htmlintro.html

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Making a Web Page with Netscape Composer (PC)
Making a Web Page with Netscape Composer (Macintosh)

HTML editors: Help, Info and Reviews http://www.html.about.com/compute/html/cs/htmleditors/

Creating HTML in Word, Step by Step, by Vance Stevens: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/htmlword.htm

Web Page Design:

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students, by Charles Kelly: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html

Web page Style Guide at Yale University: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Web Pages that Suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Web Color Reference, The Websafe and Reallysafe:
http://www.webreference.com/html/reference/color/websafe.html

Color names and Codes: http://www.mf-insites.com/colornames.html

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Free Webspace:

Freewebspace.net (Searchable guide to free webspace providers): http://www.freewebspace.net/

GeoCities: http://geocities.yahoo.com

What to do if all this is too much trouble:

Quia: (Create online games and quizzes for your students automatically): http://www.quia.com/

TrackStar:(Create pages with links and activities): http://trackstar.hprtec.org/

QuizStar: (Create quizzes of various types): http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3

Nicenet:(Create a discussion board for your class): http://www.nicenet.org/

Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

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Publishing your Web page in your Pitt Web space

With WS_FTP for Windows
With Fetch for Macintosh

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Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh

http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/workshops/techworkshopsfall01/author.html
Last revised: January 18, 2002