You're invited!

Besides being just plain fun, personal webpages give us yet another way to interact with fellow faculty and staff and certainly with our students. We can also provide value to our courses with supplemental content and links for those who want to learn more about our subjects.

Creating a webpage is not as difficult as it may first seem, and there are different ways you can accomplish the task. This project is to introduce even the least technical persons to various ways webpages can be created, and to suggest some excellent tools and ideas.

Please visit the items in the Project section in the middle of this page, and walk through the process of creating your very own web page.

Thanks for visiting, and happy webmaking!


Dr. Tamara (Tammy) Fudge
School of Information Systems
and Technology

 

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Links

Here are links from the PowerPoint (plus a few others):

blue bullet Free hosting

Geocities
GoogleSites
Tripod (not mentioned in the presentation, but another free favorite)
Reviews of free hosts

blue bullet Paid Hosting

Top Ten Web Hosts ($)

blue bullet Design Software

Dreamweaver CS3
Expression Web 2
WYSIWYG Web Builder5

blue bullet Design Information

Font families
Color accessibility

blue bullet Add-ons

Quiz maker
Blogs
Wikis
Calendars
Flash presentations
More free gadgets

blue bullet Flash tutorials

To see the processes more closely; Firefox is recommended for viewing:

Geocities templates
Geocities Page Wizard
Starting with Word

blue bullet Another tutorial

Google has its own tutorial, linked from this GoogleSites page.

The Project

Part 1 gold bullet Please view this PowerPoint first to see some options in creating webpages. Viewing time is estimated at approximately 20 minutes.

Presentation

Part 2 gold bullet Try the Geocities Wizard or templates or the GoogleSite method as shown in the presentation, or create a Word doc to save as a webpage and download to any free hosting site. Tutorials are linked in the right-side menu on this page for those who want to see the process more closely.

Or, as explained in the PowerPoint, a simple template and complete instructions are available here. You can just insert your information into the codes. Download both of these documents to your computer and begin your trek into web page creation!

FacWeb template + Template Instructions

For those who really want to know, the template is validated XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Part 3 gold bullet How was your experience? Please share your findings on our blog!

Part 4 gold bullet Let's get practical! Two sessions will give you some help understanding the template and some other basics. Click below to peruse the presentations and related links:

You still can come back to visit the blog, too!