Introduction to Web Site Design

Description
This is an introduction to the study of the design, planning and technical aspects of web page and small web site creation. The unit emphasises the project management and file management aspects of web authoring which can be implemented using any HTML authoring programme. On successful completion of this unit, students will have the skills needed to design and create small Internet sites such as personal home pages or a teacher's first web site. The methods used are scaleable to larger projects using more sophisticated software.
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Useful Links

Atomic Learning has tutorials on Dreamweaver, Frontpage and Netscape Composer
http://atomiclearning.com
The Trinity College Library Website has links to tutorials at
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/it/tut/default.htm
The full range of Microsoft In and Out of the Classroom Tutorials (Mac and Windows) is at
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/classroom/default.asp
Webopedia is an excellent online dictionary of computer terms
http://www.webopedia.com/
How Stuff Works has an excellent computer section
http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm
Yale Web Style Manual
Art and the Zen of Web
Creating Killer Web Sites by David Siegel
Webmonkey for Kids explains the design process and html coding
Webmonkey Grown Up edition is an excellent resource
Web Pages that Suck teaches good design by showing you bad design
Barry's Clip ArtClip Art 101 - A good guide to using and finding clip art
You can't go too far with so called WYSYWIG editors without needing to understand about RAW HTML. Two excellent references are at
Writing HTML
Mikodocs Guide to HTML
For copyright information and web technical stuff look at
Australian Copyright Council

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