Using Page Composer: Basic directions for how to get connected and use Page Composer on the Washburn system (or at home).
Netscape Page Composer Website: The official Netscape site that gives you much more extensive official directions on how to use Netscape's (the course's recommended) website page authoring software.
Examples of Profile Websites: click into these websites to see examples (not necessarily all ones you will want to copy) of how other people have done things at least close to your chosen assignment of constructing a web profile. Unfortunately the list is currently fairly small, as several very good student websites have been removed from their university's servers.
Website Design:
- Minnie Grinstead: http://www.washburn.edu/cas/ksstudies/gerberer/index.html
- Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson This website is not just a character profile; rather it is part of the Library of Congress's great American Memory site, which is intended first to showcase the LC's own rich holdings. But it is a lot about Robinson, a lot about his historic context, and very well done. So a good place to go for ideas.
- Glimpses of Ben Franklin Aimed perhaps a little too much at a general, pre-university audience, but gives a good sense of how to integrate hotlinks to subpage essats into a brief introductory essay. Also offers a good example of a brief but effective timeline.
- The Era of William McKinley This site mostly makes available very well selected original sources on McKinley and his era (especially those taken from a great collection of editorial cartoons). That is, it mostly leaves seeing the patterns up to the viewer, but selects and arranges them well enough that they can be identified. While you may want to point out your Character's patterns more openly in your Character essays, do notice what this site shows about how original materials can also be selected and arranged to make your case for you.
Web Clip Art Still being built, but already contains some links to website repositories plus a number of image files that can be copied to provide either backgrounds or bars for student website projects.Website Review Criteria: One of the best ways to get ready to design a good website is to look at existing websites critically. This link takes you into an old Tucker website criteria document, developed for a past website review assignment. But it will help you get started thinking about what good academically-useful websites look like. (Hint: they are evaluated somewhat differently than commercial ones.) Web Graphics: The course page for the Fall 2000 version of a very popular Washburn course in web design and technology. Some of it may be pretty advanced, but watch it over the semester for useful advice and resources
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