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Web Design Hot Topic List

This web site (updated 6/ 13/ 2000) will provide links to sites on issues related to the planning, development and publishing of basic web pages. Topics are broken down into sub-groups for ease of navigation and to pinpoint your area of need.

AUP's | Web Site Evaluation | Web Design Tips | Free Images & Backgrounds | FTP Software



Acceptable Use Policies

Polices that describe how to safely utilize the resources of the Internet in educational settings. 

This is Prince Georges's County Public Schools AUP site.

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Web Site Evaluation

This site discusses ways of evaluating the validity and appropriateness of web sites for academic settings.

The University of Albany's Evaluation Internet Resources page is a great place to start for information on evaluating web sites.

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Web Design Tips

These web sites provide examples on what to do and what not to do when designing your web site.

Free tutorial for using Nestcape Composer.

Lynda.com's list of Inspirations web sites provides great examples of how to use colors, images, backgrounds and much more.  Great site for examples of what to do!

The Web Pages That Suck site provides examples of what to avoid in web design.  What ever you do, do NOT make this list!

The WebDeveloper site is full of information on developing web sites.  This site can be a little overwhelming.

The Developer.com web site is overloaded with information on designing your web site.  This site can be a little overwhelming.

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Images, Background & Text

These web sites provide links to free downloads of images, backgrounds and tips.

The Web Developer site can be a little intimidating, but is full of helpful hints and techniques.  Not for the weak at heart.

The CoolArchive web site has links to lots of free images and backgrounds.  Good place to start.

The ArtToday web site is a free, members only web site.  The free members only, sign up consists of providing your email and picking a screen name and password, will provide you with 185,000 images. Also a good place to start building your image collection.

The Flaming Text web site will create cool text and buttons for your web site. 

The zy.com web site will create coot text and buttons for your web site.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Software

FTP software allows the user to transfer your web site to an Internet server.  Once on the Internet server, your site can be accessed from any browser, anywhere in the world.

At www.tucows.com you can get a free copy of WS-FTP LE software.  This software is free to educators. Follow the instructions to download the software and install.

This FTP Tutorial site will help you when using WS-FTP to transfer your pages to a server. The FTP PowerPoint presentation is also available.

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