Getting Ready to Make a Web Page
updated 4/06

Educational Applications

  • show curriculum concepts
  • share lesson links for school and home access
  • post homework
  • communicate with parents
  • display classroom calendar
  • describe current projects, clarify assignments
  • create Internet activities that are easily accessible for classroom lessons
  • engage students in telecomputing projects
  • publish presentations
  • publish student work online
  • conduct online surveys
  • give students somewhere to go online at home
  • provide research help
  • post extra credit, brain teasers, etc.

Web Page Tips

1. Plan before you start. Decide what you wish to present, and how you'd like to present it.

2. Use common fonts. A font can only be seen if it is installed on a user's computer. If the font is not installed, your results will be unpredictable. The following are common to most computers.

  • Arial
  • Courier
  • Comic Sans
  • Georgia
  • Impact
  • Palatino
  • Times
  • Trebuchet
  • Verdana

3. Use contrast for easy reading (light background with dark type or dark background with light type).

4. Naming Web Pages

  • your home page should be called index.html
  • keep all other names short and to the point
  • no spaces or slashes
  • use underscores or capital letters to differentiate words

5. Check your external links often. Make sure they are up-to-date and contain the content you desire.

6. Always preview in your browsers (Safari, Explorer). What you see is not necessarily what you get!

Create a Backup Folder.

First you must decide where you will keep your files.  If you don't have a laptop, the faculty storage server is a good place to start so that you will have backup files. Alternatively, you may choose to use your iBook. When your page is ready to post, you can use an FTP program such as Interarchy to drag it to the web server to put it on the Internet.

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