Links and Resources

Links and Resources

Free Home Page Guide http://www.rit.se/~peo/guide/index.html
Free Home Pages for Non-profit Organizations http://www.rit.se/~peo/guide/freeorg.htm
Getting Started on the Internet http://www.connecti.com/~alamopc/start.htm
Loogootee West Elementary Homepage (variety of resources here) http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/west.htm
Bellingham schools http://www.bham.wednet.edu/default.htm
- Introduction to Virtual Museums
  http://www.bham.wednet.edu/outline.htm
FNO (From now on--the Educational Technology Journal) http://fromnowon.org/.www.html
- *Designing School Web Sites http://fromnowon.org/webdesign.html
- The Virtual Museum Workshop http://fromnowon.org/exhibit.html
- Jan/Feb 96: Virtual Galleries vs. Virtual Museums http://fromnowon.org/fnojan96.html
- Mar. 95: Why in the World Wide Web? Reasons for Schools to Launch Web Sites http://fromnowon.org/mar97/cov97m.html
- Feb. 97 : The "New HomeWork"-- A Dozen Information Skills for the Home
  http://fromnowon.org/feb97/teach.html
Writing Web Pages with Wesley (follow the links and ignore the course requirements information) http://www.wtvi.com/html/summerclass.html
Bright Sites Award Characteristics Ten kinds of content this site looks for, when it gives its awards. http://scrtec.org/bright_sites/characteristics/
Jon's Homeschool Resource Page http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs
HTML "Skillette" (beginner's tutorial) http://www.niitnetvarsity.com/samples/htm02/index.htm
7 Kinds of web pages http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/west.htm
Web Tips for Teachers--tutorial, glossary, plans http://www.adobe.com/education/adobeschool/main.html
How to Make a Web Page http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/HowToMakeAWebPage.html
Denise Laurent's Web Designer's Notebook http://www.imagine.co.uk/
Internet course outline http://polaris.umuc.edu/~flazarus/ (a great study guidefor beginners on up!)
Beaucoup Search http://www.beaucoup.com/formengs.html
Another search site http://www.studyweb.com/index2.htm

Software *indicates items useful beyond a basic web page

*Homesite 2.5a (HTML editor; demo)
http://www.allaire.com/
*Inspiration 5.0 (Visual organizer; Educational version demo) http://www.inspiration.com
*WS-ftp (this or a similar utility is needed to move files to your web server) http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=00064K
*L-View PRO (prepare images for web use; use this or one of the programs marked with ^ below, if your paint program won't save as a .gif or .jpg) http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=00000H

Browsers (If you can, upgrade your browser!)

Internet Explorer 4 http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
Netscape Communicator http://www.netscape.com/

Software Downloads

Tucows (Shareware) http://www.tucows.com/
More on HTML editors http://www.slis.ua.edu/wwwintro/editors.htm
Still more on editors and other stuff http://library.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/HTML/editors.html
ZDnet software download area--There's an incredible amount of information here, so feel free to search, then browse--check the descriptions, the ratings and the OS (Windows, DOS) http://www.hotfiles.com/
- ^Corel Webster (web image creator; demo) http://www.xara.com/webster/index.html
- ^Graphic Workshop for Windows (graphics file converter; more) http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gww.html
- ^Paint Shop Pro Win 95 (paint; graphics converter) http://jasc.com/pspdl.html

Paint and draw programs

*Painter (natural media paint program; demo) http://www.fractal.com/products/painter/
Demo: http://www.metacreations.com/downloads/
Corel XARA (draw; web graphics) http://www.xara.com/corelxara/indexbody.html
Claris Draw (demo) http://www.claris.com/k12/products/claris/clarisdraw/
Convolver (image manipulation; demo) http://www.metacreations.com/downloads/
Gif Construction Kit (animated gifs) http://mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

HTML Editors

WebEdit Pro (30 day demo) http://www.luckman.com/webeditpro/index.html
Hot Dog 14 day evaluation http://www.sausage.com
Webber32 http://www.expertelligence.com/webber32

Useful web preparation software

Map This! (create image maps) http://www.incontext.com/demo/mapthis.html
Unzip compressed files:
Windows: WinZip
Mac: ZipIt
Color Picker http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000G8Z

Free Web Graphics
Laurie Macanna's free web graphics http://www.mccannas.com/free/freeart.htm
Animated GIFs; more http://www.barrysclipart.com/
http://cameo.softwarelabs.com/
Web image archive http://www.ender-design.com/rg/index.html