LEARN HOW TO BUILD A WEBPAGE AND LEARN THE BASICS OF DESIGN WITH FREE TOOLS
FEDERALLY FUNDED SITES:
Learn what all schools and federally funding agencies must know and provide on their websites.
Learn All About School Web Sites
Who Is the Audience? What should be there? Specific Guidlines and Goals, What are the legal requirements. You are legally responsible to make it accessable to the blind, find out how.
Put your school site into the historic online master registry.
BUILDING WEB SITES DISCUSSIONS & ARTICLES
"MANIFESTO" at www.cluetrain.com written by some people with interesting thoughts about the Internet.
TEN GOOD DEEDS IN WEB DESIGN When you make the decision to move course materials to the Web, you may need some help in designing easy-to-use Web pages. Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group, points out the many mistakes Web page creators make that pose problems for readers. In a recent column, "Ten Good Deeds in Web Design," he presents positive strategies for increasing your site's usability.
Writing for the Web a great list compiled by usuability guru Jakob Nielsen: The short summary and the writing style guide are especially good.
DESIGN BASICS
Be Aware of who you are desinging for - Stats
Information Architecture Tutorial
Information architecture is the science of figuring out what you want your site to do and then constructing a blueprint before you dive in and put the thing together. Designing a Web site one page at a time tempts the creation of a 'spaghetti site': one that lacks good internal structure or organization.
The basics of web page creation
If you are interested in using Netscape Composer, there are many tutorials out there, but in the interest of recreating the wheel, we've designed some tutorials for the teachers in our district, with the intent of being no more than a screen or two long, cross platform, and just a little at a time.
Type Setting advice - The things you need to know
Hire the the professional because there is MUCH MUCH more to building a site then what you see on the computer screen.
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR KIDS
Much much more!