Transcript Intro to Creating WWW Pages (Big Picture) - PowerPoint Presentation

Creating WWW Pages
Big Picture
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Make sure you have a place to put them
Plan Pages
Create Pages
Upload Pages (“Publish”)
Test Pages (Important!)
Maintain and Keep Current
Plan Pages
Know Your Purpose
 Understand Your Audience
 Remember “diversity” – particularly
handicaps
 Identify Structure / Pages
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Creating Pages
A) Use HTML (Ugh!)
B) Use Word
C) Use FrontPage
D) Use Dreamweaver
E) Etc
Creating Pages Using Word
A) Save as www page OR
 B)
Web page template OR
 C) Web page wizard (not anymore?)
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Creating Pages Using FrontPage
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What we’ll use – see handouts
Publish Pages
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Generally involves using FTP to transfer files,
but may need to take other steps as well
 See www.lasalle.edu/admin/personal/pages.htm for
La Salle instructions
Front Page will do a lot for you
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See your provider’s instructions
Test Pages
Ideally test on PC AND Mac
 Ideally test on the 2 most recent versions of
each of the popular browsers (Microsoft,
Netscape, Mozilla)
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Some Rules of Thumb
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Use consistent layouts and designs on all
pages on a site