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Look Locally, Think Globally

Look Locally, Think Globally. CREATING A CONTENT-RICH HOMEPAGE FOR YOUR SCHOOL. Overview. Description Tips and Tricks Examples Summary. What are the qualities of a content-rich homepage?. Contains information useful to others. Contains pictures. Contains links to other places.

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Look Locally, Think Globally

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  1. Look Locally, Think Globally CREATING A CONTENT-RICH HOMEPAGE FOR YOUR SCHOOL

  2. Overview • Description • Tips and Tricks • Examples • Summary

  3. What are the qualities of a content-rich homepage? Contains information useful to others Contains pictures Contains links to other places

  4. Tips and Tricks : Choosing a Topic • Call your local historical society. • Call your local VFW. • Call any museum in your area. • Call any local organization in your area.

  5. Thing to do next • Search the Internet by topic to see if someone already has had your idea. • Search the major directories (i.e.Yahoo) and search engines (i.e.AltaVista).

  6. Tips and Tricks : HTML • Look at the source code on pages you like. • Learn how to write simple HTML. • Make templates to use as masters. • Buy a book: Laura Lemay. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 3.2 in a Week. IN : sams.net, 1996. • Get a dedicated HTML editor.

  7. HTML : Points to remember • Remember, not all browsers support tables, center, and backgrounds. • Remember your audience. Schools might have a slow Internet connection. Design accordingly. • Test, test, test your code with a browser. Check spelling and links.

  8. Tips and Tricks : Pictures • Take photographs and have them developed on diskette or Photo-CD. • Get some image-editing software. • Load your photos, enhance them, crop, and save as .gif and/or .jpeg. • If you have a scanner or digital camera, use it instead to load your photos.

  9. Examples • FDR Cartoon Collection (http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/departments/ social/fdr_html/FDRmain.html ) • Castles on the Web (http://fox.nstn.ca/~tmonk/castle/castle.html ) • Great Chicago Fire and Web of Memory (http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/)

  10. Think of a unique topic. Make sure it hasn’t been done already. Look at formats of sites that you like. Learn how to write basic HTML. Take photos or scan them to digitize. Edit the images. Put the content-rich page together. Mount on a server and.... Summary

  11. ADVERTISE !!! Let everyone know about the site. Announce it at school, in the newspaper, and on the Internet !

  12. The End

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