Creating Templates for Your Site

Create a design for the web page

• Designing elements
• Set up -----2 folders on your disk in the A:/ drive (you may also want to make a temporary backup copy on the computer you are working on - just be sure to move that folder to the recycling bin when the class is over)
• Icons - This folder will hold all your graphics (pictures)
• html - This folder will hold all your Web pages
• Planning -
• Use the Planning Template - Think about your:
• Audience (age level),
• Purpose (is it for Research? to as Motivation? to build background knowledge? )and the
• Main Ideas you want to cover in your pages
• Fill in the File names for each of your pages,
• And the Text you will use to create links on that page….
• In other words -- On our first page for Building Web Pages for Instruction - the name of the file is "index.html". On that page I have text for the file for "Syllabus" linked to "syllabus.html".
• Next - Think about each page of your web site -- let the Template help you think about:
• the Details you want on each page
• What links you need to have to other pages
• What graphics do you need to find or create for each page

 

• Create the side bar links and the bottom links to other pages for fast manuever.
• Don't Forget the copyright message, and the date the page was updated
• Remember -- The more Planning you do now, the less time you will waste later….

On to creating the templates using basic HTML.