Web Design Student Folio

You will need to check the following pages for class assignments

Please bring to class two or more 3.5-inch blank diskettes with your name boldly on the front. You will save course outlines, graphics and classwork on them.
The following web pages contain valuable design information:

Textured backgrounds
Image (GIF) Compression
Tips for Using Paint Shop Pro
Information on META tags
This is the Home Page of our style textbook
Start here for many pages of color hex-dec numbers
More interesting fonts
CNET - The absolute essential source for all things computer, downloads, software and hardware reviews
www.nowonder.com - Every techie question answered
Do an online search for free counters - Counters tell you how many have visited your site
HTML helps - Find helps for page design
Tips - Find tips here for good site work
GIF cruncher - Use when you graphics are too large
Textures - You want to look at some textures for background to avoid the harsh white background
Make GIFs- Make your own gifs
Panoramic movie made of your still photos- You must buy this program but you can do great tricks with it
www.mercator.com - Try this for surveys online
Add a banner - Add a banner
www.verbacom.com - Decide on META tags
Scripts - There are many scripts here - Try this
Tutorials - Wonderful place for tutorials; print out and use later. My favorite site for all kind of help.
Work with menus - Several menu motions here
Subscribe to daily clip art downloads - Have them send you a clip-art each day
More scripts www.useit.com problems with frames.
Map edit helps you create an image map
Print out this page for evaluating your web pages - Webevaluation

Everyday when you get to class do the following:

Open 4 programs and minimize on the lower Task Bar.

Internet Explorer

Netscape

Find files

Notepad

If you X out any notepad program, then when you open it up again, you will need to re-save it as an HTML file. Saving as TXT has been a problem everyone has faced. So ALWAYS minimize (see the minus sign) the pages you are working on. If necessary, open several templates. In order to view your work, simply click your mouse over the Browser window (it is always larger than notepad). This way you can go back and forth.

Process for using Front Page (or other editing program)

Open up Internet Explorer

Open up a file (HTML file) Pull down menu and open up the edit using Front Page option.