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Technology Tutorials

The following resources are made available to assist faculty, staff, and students in developing multimedia presentations. The list below will take you to the appropriate section lower on the page.

PowerPoint
Excel
Creating a Web Page

Design and Usability
IU Resources
Advanced Features
HTML Editors
Quick References

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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:Microsoft Office Online Tutorial for PowerPoint 2007
  

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: Microsoft Office Online Tutorial for Excel 2007.

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:

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

IUSB Resources:

IUSB provides several online resources concerning the Web and Web page creation and publication.

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

IUB Resources:

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

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

Tutorials/Lists:

HTML tutorials and tutorial lists

• Joe Burns' thorough HTML Goodies.
• Dave Kristula's HTML An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners.
• DevX (Project Cool) HTML Quickstart
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing.
• The Web Design Resource's Complete HTML Tutorial List.
• Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML (translated into 21 languages).
• Lynda.Com - excellent website based on a series of books. Example of a tutorial service by subscription/membership.

Advanced Features:

• Style Sheets and Cascading Style Sheets.
  • W3C Web Style Sheets.
  • W3C Cascading Style Sheets.
  • W3C Style Sheets.
• Animation, Graphics, Icons, Patterns and Colors
  • Ender Design's Web Development for the World.
  • W3C Icon List.
  • Web Com Indexes of Icons and Graphics.
  • IU Knowledge Base's What is the GIF graphics file format?
  • Mac Promote Exchange's GIF Converter.
  • WebGFX's design your own logo with on-line graphics generator.

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.

• Microsoft's Office site FrontPage 2003 Help & How-to.

Quick References:

• The Bare Bones Guide's list of HTML tags.
• Willcam Group's Complete Index of HTML Tags.