Step 1 - What is the purpose of the page?

Before you put fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have a basic idea of what information you want to place on your page and who your audience will be. A web page designed for children will have a different look than one for adults. Start by asking yourself these questions:

• What is the purpose of the web page? Will it be a listing of assignments/due dates, display of student work?
• Who is the intended audience? Will it be students, parents, other teachers? Be sure to create a page with this audience in mind. Make it easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate.
• How much time do you feel you’ll have to keep the page updated? How often do you plan to update the page?
• Have you explored the Internet in order to check out pages developed by other teachers? Looking at other web pages will help you with design as well as content.

Have all the information necessary to develop your page. If you need class lists, have them easily available. If you'd like to have photos on your page, have them ready either on a floppy disk or in your network folder. Of course, you can always add photos later.

 Step 3 – Design/Layout your site

• Use paper and pencil, whiteboard, index cards or flipchart to arrange your components in a pleasing and easy-to-read design.
• Think “Tables”: Tables are used in web design in order to maintain style and structure. Click on the "Tables" tab above for more information.

Step 4: Organizing your web components

FrontPage will automatically save your web page within My Documents in a folder named "My Web Sites". Within this folder there will be another folder names “Images”. Each photo, clipart, or graphic that you use in your web page should be saved in the "Images" folder.

For further information contact:
Maureen Edsforth, Instructional Technology Specialist
Greenwich Central School District
Greenwich, NY 12834
Voice: 518-692-9542 Ext. 2056
Email: medsforth@greenwichcsd.org

Last modified: May 11, 2006