ABC’s of Building a Web Home Page

Missed the session? Wanted to try it out? No problem! You can complete the session independently in the comfort of your office if you have the following:

  1. Access to the Academic Shared drive G:
  2. FrontPage Express installed on your computer (standard Cambrian application)
  3. Any browser & any text editor (standard WIN95/Cambrian applications)
  4. The handout for this session - Word document (311 kb): Get it NOW! or call me at ext. 7486 - I still have some extra paper copies.

Let me know if you have any difficulty doing it this way ....Greg

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WHAT:
ABC’s of Building a Web Home Page
WHERE:
lab 3120
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 2, 9-12
OBJECTIVE:
Learn the basic concepts of simple Web page construction. Then DO IT!

TOPICS:

(1) Planning
(2) What the heck is HTML? A few "tags" to help you understand
(3) Introduction to FrontPage Express: Doing it the easy way!
(4) Basic features: fonts, colors, backgrounds
(5) Adding more features: hypertext links, navigation links, images & image map
(6) Construct a home page, with 2-3 linked pages
(7) Questions & answers, discussion, the "next step"?

DELIVERABLE:

Functioning home page with 1-2 linked pages

REGISTER:

Contact Cathy Branch at ext. 7242 to sign up.

MORE INFORMATION:

You might want to take a look at some on-line resources which may give you some "food for thought" to bring to this session:

  1. "Guided Tour of Exemplary Web Sites" – see how instructional sites use different approaches – design, curriculum and instructional strategies: http://www.cambriancollege.ca/faculty/gbcooper/abcweb/webtour.htm
  2. "Building a Web site – What’s Involved" : http://www.cambriancollege.ca/faculty/gbcooper/abcweb/images/what_involve.gif
  3. "Getting Started with Educational Web Site Development" – general "getting started" ideas and examples: http://www.cambriancollege.ca/faculty/gbcooper/abcweb/index.htm
  4. My home page which contains links to "Web Courseware Development at Cambrian College" (hosted by C. Belcourt), course Webs and other resources: http://www.cambriancollege.ca/faculty/gbcooper/

QUESTIONS?

Contact Greg Cooper at ext. 7486 or gbcooper@cambrianc.on.ca for more information. See you Tuesday!