THE “NEW” SIDE OF WEB DESIGN Start with Fundamentals A GOOD teacher will LEARN and TEACH the basics of HTML and CSS before allowing students to use WYSIWYG editors! Yes, it’s programming, technically, but they can handle it! And, so can you! Free Web Tools and Widgets Embeddable Video Hosting (online) Embeddable Audio (offline) http://schooltube.com (school video hosting and embed code) http://www.audioflash.org/ (free streaming audio recorder) http://screentoaster.com (capture screencast and embed code given) Embeddable Photo Galleries (offline) http://screencastle.com (capture screencast and get embed code) http://www.snapfiles.com/get/sothinkalbum.html SoThink Album Embeddable Forum http://www.snapfiles.com/get/skyalbum.html SkyAlbum http://tal.ki/ “Top” Widgets Embed RSS Feed from Blog http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/scrollbox-embed-rss-feeds/ AddThis Button http://addthis.com/ ModPoll http://www.modpoll.com Embed Photo Galleries/Presentations Hosted Online Random Widget Collections http://www.slideserve.com (embed PPT files; no transitions/animation unless plugin downloaded—trial does 10 slides only) http://www.iwidgetworld.com/ http://picasaweb.google.com/home http://www.widgetbox.com/ http://www.freewidgetzone.com/ Embed Documents Hosted Online (can upload) http://www.tickerfactory.com/ezticker/ticker_designer.php http://embedit.in (embed document or embed baby thumbnail link) Free Web Site Creators/Hosting (easy) • Wix • Yola • Google Sites • Weebly Source: http://internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/make-free-websites-on-the-web 1 Tonya D. Skinner, Presenter http://sites.google.com/site/nce2010skinner/ [email protected] CSS layouts/Templates Layout Gala http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ Free CSS Layouts http://www.free-css.com/free-css-layouts/page1.php Free html editors • Komposer http://www.kompozer.net/ • Aptana Studio http://www.aptana.org/studio/download • Sharepoint Designer (Microsoft) http://www.microsoft.com/ • Pagebreeze http://www.pagebreeze.com/ • Seamonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Curricula CSS Basics Online BookÆ http://www.cssbasics.com/ (read online or download) TeacherTube Videos on HTML (IEClass)Æ http://www.teachertube.com/viewProfile.php?user=ieclass (With TeacherTube, you can download videos to use in your classroom) HTML/CSS Web Building TutorialsÆ http://www.w3schools.com/ AccessIT Web Design & Development CurriculumÆ http://www.washington.edu/accessit/webdesign/index.htm Adobe Curriculum—Foundations of Web DesignÆ http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/digitaldesign.html 2 Tonya D. Skinner, Presenter http://sites.google.com/site/nce2010skinner/ [email protected] .