Web Page Development Resources

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Web Page Design Resources

As you design and construct your Web pages, please consult some of these links to see selected information resources, recommendations, guidelines and standards for good Web page design.
 

Gateways to selected Web information and curriculum resources
Loogootee Community Schools' (Tammy Payton) Six Steps for Web Design
Creating Small, Fast Loading Graphics for Web Pages
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Articles:
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
Ten Good Deeds in Web Design

The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design


Tips and Tutorials for Making Web Pages With Netscape Composer

The Web browser Netscape Navigator has a free, built-in component called Netscape Composer, which allows a novice to build a Web page. Here are two online tutorials that will help you make use of this feature.

How to Create Web Pages Using Netscape Composer
A tutorial  from Eastern Connecticut State University.
Six-Step Netscape Composer Tutorial
For Windows and Macintosh versions, provided by Montana State University.
Netscape Composer 4.x Quick Start
Has a nice section showing "Using a Web page as a Template to modify", which is a useful strategy to help get started with a more complex layout of tables, colors and other elements.


Graphic Elements for Web Page Construction

This image is in a .gif format, and was created by a free, online graphics generator. It says Get your banners and buttons below.

Here are some sites that help you create buttons and banners to your own specifications.
Create A Graph
Instant Banners, Logos, and Buttons
Free Animated Banners
CoolText.com
Fonts and Things   
  Buttons:
Free Buttons .com
Sage's Web Buttons and GIFs
Free images, graphics and backgrounds may add richness, color and texture to your web pages.
The Clip Art Connection

Clip Art Universe
IconBAZAAR
Yahoo: Clipart Index
Lesson Design With the Webquest and Web Lesson Approach

Designing A "Web Quest"
A page created by STLC co-presenter, MaryRose Lovgren. Includes a PowerPoint presentation, templates and lots of informative material to help you make good use of this process.

The WebQuest Matrix of Top Examples Page
From Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest model. See how WebQuests have been developed at all grade levels, for a variety of subject areas. See also the WebQuest Middling Examples These are lists of WebQuests created in various settings, mostly University courses and workshops.

SCORE History/Social Science Lesson Activity Selection Criteria
These describe the standards used by the SCORE H/SS to select and include both lessons and information resources.  Some examples of SCORE lessons:  White Man's Burden (Kohen), North Coast Landscapes (Keeth), Paris Peace Conference (Niles).

School Library Web Pages

International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) Web Pages of the Year/Month
This international organization honors outstanding Web pages created by school librarians,  promote the involvement of school librarians in the development of the Web and to promote excellence in the Web sites of school libraries. See their IASL Selection Criteria for some useful guidelines for assessing such pages.

School Librarian Web Pages
A collection of Web pages from around the world, created and maintained by school librarians.


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Updated by the C.H.S. Library Webster: 10-15-2003.