Webmaster Resources
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General
Changes in Web Usability since 1994 - NEW
FrontPage 2003 Quick Reference Cards (MS Word format)
Site-building - NEW
Why users scan instead of reading web pages - NEW
Tutorials
Free FrontPage online training (Microsoft)
PageTutor - basic pages, tables, forms, frames tutorials
Web site design - W3Schools
Web page design
Change the color of visited links - NEW
Design Basics - Web Design 101
Design - Graphics (a collection of 25 articles from WebMonkey)
Everybody Else Does, Should You?
Fonts - keep them resizable! - NEW
Guidelines for visualizing links
Practical Web Design - Fundamentals of Web Design
Top 10 home page design violations - NEW
United Methodist Graphics Library
Web page authoring
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - includes a quick tutorial
Consistent punctuation & style
CSS menu generator (for intermediate users)
Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - NEW
Free site search (PicoSearch)
Guidelines for authoring - NEW
Holy CSS, Zeldman - NEW
How users read the web - NEW
JavaScript Code Library - NEW
Optimizing web pages for search engines
"Robots" exclusion technique (exclude some folders, files from search engines)
Search engines like ugly pages
Site-flavored search - Google
Stylesheets - NEW
TIDY code cleaner - integrates into FrontPage
FrontPage & Authoring tips - NEW
Top 10 mistake in Web design - NEW
United Methodist Syndicated content
Usability 101 - NEW
Using keywords appropriately within your pages
Web maintenance
Link rot - a constant challenge
Promoting - add your site to Google
Promoting - add your site to DMOZ directory (used by many search engines)
Promoting - add your site to Yahoo!
Web developer tools
3-D Text Maker (online)
Color Blender (online)
GIFWorks (online)
Link popularity checker (online)
Software sources (free)
Amaya - a free, open source WYSIWYG web page editor from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It supports many standards, even new ones and is updated often by the W3C. - NEW
nVu (WYSIWYG web page editor) - NEW
TIDY code cleaner - integrates into FrontPage
TopStyle CSS editor (a free version is available)
Trellian WebPage editor (WYSIWYG. You must register, but it's free) - NEW
WebDwarf v2 (WYSIWYG web page editor) - NEW
This page is part of the 2005 district training for the
Atlanta-Emory and Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford districts,
North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church
Questions? Contact webmaster @ apmethodist.org (without the spaces)
This page was last edited 01/15/2006 12:25 AM