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