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The following resources are made available to assist faculty, staff, and students in developing multimedia presentations:

Entering Grades in Oncourse  click here

Entering Grades in OneStart   click here

PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a presentation graphics software program that allows you to organize, illustrate, and present your ideas quickly and easily.

  • Go to: University of Texas' extensive Getting Started With Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Go to: Microsoft's main page has information including PowerPoint 2000 and downloads.
    [Warning: no browser back button functionality from the Microsoft site.]
  • Go to: Net-Scene's PointPlus software program converts PowerPoint presentations into compressed and streamable Web formats.
  • Go to: Bored with PowerPoint? Looking for something else? Check out Bob Stein's Voyager Company, TK3.

Excel

Excel is a flexible spreadsheet software program used to enter, edit, compute, graph, analyze and store numeric data such as budgets and grade books.

  • Go to: University of Texas - A guide to using Excel to calculate and manage grades.
  • Go to: IU Bloomington - UITS how to guide.
  • Go to: University of Texas - Getting Started with Excel.
  • Go to: University of Texas - Using Excel to Create and Edit Graphs.

Creating a Web Page

Creating a Web Page: Before actually designing or building a home page or web site, consider some basic guidelines, style elements, common mistakes, general hints and overall considerations.

Design and Usability:

  • Go to: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Top 10 Mistakes of Web Design.
  • Go to: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Top 10 New Mistakes.
  • Go to: Examples of design elements to avoid.
  • Go to: Webreference's What Makes a Good Website?
  • Go to: University of Mississippi's Hints for Web Authors.
  • Go to: Patrick Lynch's classic Web Style Guide offered by Yale University Press.
  • Go to: Eric Tilton's excellent book Composing Good HTML published by Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.

IUSB Resources:

IUSB provides several on-line resources concerning the Web and Web page creation and publication.

  • Go to: Publishing your home page on the Web.
  • Go to: Continuing Education offers a variety of computer classes, free to faculty.
  • Go to: Home pages at IUSB by department, unit, and group.
  • Go to: Personal home pages at IUSB.

IUB Resources:

IUB offers some valuable on-line material about computing in general, as well as a variety of tutorials.

  • Go to: Indiana University Knowledge Base is a searchable glossary of technical terms including HTML.
  • Go to: Creating a home page for your course at IUB.
  • Go to: Web site design guidelines.
  • Go to: Course Website templates, tools and guides.
  • Go to: The IU Webmaster: getting started and moving ahead with web pages.

Tutorials/Lists:

HTML tutorials and tutorial lists

  • Go to: Joe Burns' thorough HTML Goodies.
  • Go to: CNET's Builder.com.
  • Case Western Reserve's:
  • University of Texas' HTML Basics and Intermediate Tutorials:
  • Go to: Dave Kristula's HTML An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners.
  • Go to: Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction's Writing HTML: a tutorial for creating WWW pages.
  • Go to: Project Cool's 12 quick, easy steps to creating a basic HTML page.
  • Go to: Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing.
  • Go to: HotWired's venerable Webmonkey site.
  • Go to: The Web Design Resource's Complete HTML Tutorial List.
  • Go to: Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML (translated into 21 languages).
  • Go to: webGFX will help you design your web pages and logo with its on-line graphics generator.
  • Go to: Smart Computing Magazine's special issue on building web sites (go to Master Index of Issues, Learning Series, vol 5 #5, May 99).
  • Go to: Lynda Weinman's Links of Interest (click on "links").

Advanced Features:

  • Style Sheets and Cascading Style Sheets.
    • Go to: W3C Web Style Sheets.
    • Go to: W3C Cascading Style Sheets.
    • Go to: W3C Style Sheets.
  • Animation, Graphics, Icons, Patterns and Colors
    • Go to: Ender Design's Web Development for the World.
    • Go to: Sheldon Ackerman's Clip Art Site.
    • Go to: W3C Icon List.
    • Go to: Web Com Indexes of Icons and Graphics.
    • Go to: IU Knowledge Base's What is the GIF graphics file format?
    • Go to: Webmonkey's GIF vs. JPEG.
    • Go to: University of Texas' Web Graphics.
    • Go to: Mac Promote Exchange's GIF Converter.
    • Go to: Netscape's The Background Sampler.
    • Go to: WebGFX's design your own logo with on-line graphics generator.
    • Go to: Non-Dithering Colors by Hue.
    • Go to: Non-Dithering Colors by Value.

HTML Editors/Authoring Tools:

Don't want to bother with HTML? Let an HTML Editor do it for you. Create a web site with a software program that does the HTML and provides the graphics.

  • Go to: Netscape Navigator
  • Go to: Windows Magazine Web Sites Tips.
  • Go to: Microsoft's Office site (FrontPage 2000 preview).
  • Go to: University of Texas' Getting Started with Microsoft FrontPage 98.

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