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However, if you need a basic, simple website, I (Margrit) can set you up. I recently created a very basic website for Judit Becerra, for example. (You do have to provide me with content, however: CV, photos or images, list of publications, pdf files of publications, etc. All of these you just email to me).
Also keep in mind that there are people within the department that actually know way more about web design than I do. Consider approaching them for help with really fancy stuff. For example, check out the website of Alex Badyaev; see also his class website.
There are also a ton of resources, tutorials, tips, instruction sheets, and examples online. Below are some of my favorites.
Also:
• four extremely useful books
• software for web design
Great Websites:
Simplicity and Usability -- Jakob Nielsen's minimalist approach
The Web Teaching Guide -- for busy professors who just want the basics
The Yale Web Style Guide -- superb
"Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" -- avoid these and your website will be really nice.
"Web Pages that Suck" -- the title says it all.
University of Arizona web resources:
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has created a great online set of resources called "Educational Communications and Technologies"
Here are some great pages from within that site:
FAQ web tips for beginners
FAQ advanced web tips
UofA tutorials and classes on web design
Website checklist
Basic UA web resources:
"Web Accessibility"
"Resources for Web Masters"
Instruction sheets from UA Info Commons:
PDF file: "Basic Web Page Authoring with Dreamweaver MX" (20 pp.)
PDF file: "HTML coding" (10 pp.)
PDF file: "Learning Netscape Composer" (11 pp.)
Mozilla is a web browser that grew out of Netscape. Both Mozilla and Netscape have the associated web development package, Composer.
So if you download the whole Mozilla suite, you get both Mozilla Navigator (the browser) and Mozilla Composer (the web editor).
When looking online for Composer help, keep in mind that Netscape Composer and Mozilla Composer are very similar.
Go to
http://www.mozilla.org
click on "Products" and select "Mozilla Suite"
During the installation, select the "Complete Setup" -- this will include the Composer package.
Once Mozilla is installed, click Edit and select Preferences. There are various options for Composer. I recommend un-checking "Save images and other associated files when saving pages" because if you don't, when you download a page, Composer creates a new sub-directory for images and other files, and this does not match the file structure of the original web site.
I also recommend having these two boxes checked:
"Maintain table layout when inserting or deleting cells"
"Use CSS styles instead of HTML elements and attributes"
To begin editing web pages, while in Mozilla Navigator, click Window and select Composer. This opens a Composer window. To download pages from the web, click File and select Open Web Location. Type in the url of the page you wish to edit, but before you click Open, click the "Open in:" drop-down menu and select "New Composer window." It can be difficult to keep track of which window is a Navigator window and which is a Composer window because they look very similar. A Composer window has the page name at the very top, followed by - Composer.
You are now editing a version of the page that has been downloaded to your computer. You can save it in a folder where you keep your web files, etc.
To upload the pages you have changed to the eebweb server, contact Margrit or Nick for authorization and instructions.
For more info on using Composer, Google this phrase: "Composer Tutorial"
One good one that popped up is at
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/ci235/tutorial/composer/
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