Why?

A Personal Website for Effective Teaching: http://edvista.com/claire/personalweb.html

Writing Oneself in Cyberspace by Daniel Chandler http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/homepgid.html

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How?

Nvu (HTML Editor for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux; free download): http://www.nvu.com/

Nvu Video Tutorials (in English): http://www.designyourownweb.com/nuv-tutorial.htm

Information about Nvu in French: http://www.framasoft.net/article2656.html

Nvu en françcais: http://frenchmozilla.sourceforge.net/nvu/

Nvu Italia: http://www.sanavia.it/nvuitalia/

Nvu tutorial in Italian: http://www.mozillaitalia.it/nvu/tutorial.html

Nvu tutorial on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnWWhzFtAI

How To Upload Your Web Page With NVU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiQ-lWcYpAc

Note: For other video tutorials, go to YouTube and search for "nvu."

Character encodings in Nvu: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/nvu-enc.html

HTML Crash Course for Educators, Andy Carvin: http://www.edwebproject.org/htmlintro.html

Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files by Vance Stevens:
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/very_basics/starthere.htm

HTML editors: Help, Info and Reviews
http://www.html.about.com/compute/html/cs/htmleditors/

1st Page 2000 (for PC; version 2.0 is free): http://www.evrsoft.com

Creating HTML in Word, Step by Step, by Vance Stevens:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/htmlword.htm

Core FTP (Free PC-only software for uploading web pages to a webserver): http://www.coreftp.com

Web Page Design:

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students, by Charles Kelly:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html
Note: These guidelines are equallly good for all language students!

Web page Style Guide at Yale University: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Web Pages that Suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Web colors (article in Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

Web safe color palette: http://www.techbomb.com/websafe/

Resources for Web Accessibility: http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/events/neallt2002/access.html

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Free Webspace:

Freewebspace.net (Searchable guide to free webspace providers): http://www.freewebspace.net/

GeoCities: http://geocities.yahoo.com

Inexpensive Webspace:

Brinkster: http://www.brinkster.com/
Banana Hosting: http://www.bananahosting.com/
GoDaddy Hosting: https://www.godaddy.com/
Freeserves: http://www.freeservers.com/
Fortune City: http://www.fortunecity.com/
Dot5Hosting: http://www.dot5hosting.com

What to do if all this is too much trouble:

TrackStar:(Create pages with links and activities): http://trackstar.4teachers.org/

QuizStar: (Create quizzes of various types): http://quizstar.4teachers.org/

Nicenet:(Create a discussion board for your class): http://www.nicenet.org/

Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

Quia (commercial service): http://www.quia.com

Resources for blogs and wikis: http://www.pitt.edu/~cbsiskin/ling2148/blogs&wikis.html

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Last revised: February 24, 2008