Class Web Site Design

ABINGTON HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Computer Technology

~Web Site Design - FrontPage 2002~
Summer 2003

Introduction

This site will serve as a resource page for the Class Web Site Design, course being offered this spring at the Abington Heights Middle School. It will remain on the web for you to use as a reference tool. If you have any questions concerning the course or this web site please E-Mail me at mailto:gwynd@ahsd.org

Why Make a Web Site?

Advantages

Increases student and parent accountability.

Allows parents to keep up with what is occurring in their child's classes. (Grades, Assignments, Due dates, etc.)

Gives students a "springboard" for online research.

Encourages student participation in class activities and assignments.

Showcase for student work.

Disadvantages

Requires knowledge of HTML or commercial HTML editing software.

Initial set-up time.

Updating can be time consuming, but not always!:

Words to Know

GIF	(Graphics Interchange Format) - The graphics format often used for web page images.
HTML	(Hypertext Markup Language) - the language used to format Web documents.
Internet	A global network of computers that allows millions of users to exchange and share information.
JPEG	(Joint Photographic Experts Group) - a graphic format used for photographs commonly found on the WWW.
Link	A hypertext connection to another web site.
URL	(Uniform Resource Locator)- A fancy name for an address or location of a web page.(i.e. www.ahsd.org)
Web browser	Software which allows users to access and browse the World Wide Web. (Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator.)
WWW	( World Wide Web) A part of the internet highlighted by millions of hypertext documents.
Web site	A collection of web pages on the WWW centered around a particular theme.

Tip: Create a special file on your computer's hard drive just for graphics. Whenever you surf the internet and see a background, icon, picture, bullet, or any other graphic item, BORROW IT! Simply right click (or click and hold) your mouse on that image, highlight and click "save image as", and direct it to your graphics file. After a while you will build up quite a library of images that you can use in your website. There are also a ton of sites that specialize in downloadable images just for website construction. We will look at these latter.

Examples of class homepages

Browse the Web sites below with the following questions in mind:

1. Who is likely to look at this site?

2. Is the site more professional or more casual?

3. Are there any topics you'd like to see on your own page?

4. Is there anything you would not want on your page?

As you look through these sites feel free to bookmark any site that contains ideas you like, they may come in handy latter on.

Mrs. Candlers Class	Mr. Frutchey's Page	Mrs. Moores Class
Colonial Trades	Mrs. Forster's Pad	Mrs. Britts Page
High School Math	College Math	An Introduction to Russian
Mr. Kovall's Science Page	Mrs. Bogucki's Class	Mrs Johnson's 7th Grade Science
Mt. Logan M.S. Teacher Pages	Mrs. Silverman's Class	The Civil War for Kids
Mr. Pricci's Page	The Spaghetti Book Club	Guggenheim Elementary School

Class pages from 4teachers.com - loads of class pages

Some Examples of Bad Web Pages

American Studies

When People have too Much Time

A Confusing Example

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Class Web Site Design http://ms.ahsd.org/Technology/Workshops/classwebdesign.htm
Created June 2001 by D. Gwyn, Revised June 29, 2005
gwynd@ahsd.org

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