Julia's
easy steps for developing a web site
1. Brainstorm all of the things or types
of things you think you might eventually like to have on your web site.
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2. Organize these items into somewhere
between five and eight categories.
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3. Look at a variety of web sites that
were NOT professionally developed. Figure out what you do and don't like
about each one (try looking at the student CEC sites - http://www.cec.sped.org/ab/studchap.htm
for ideas).
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4. Decide what kind of look you want for
your web site (fun, serious, elegant, etc.), based on what you saw in step
3.
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5. Decide on something that will serve
as a repeating element through all of your web pages on your web site.
This could include a logo, a color scheme, "wallpaper," a particular font,
the layout, etc.
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6. Figure out how you want your links
to other pages (or categories of pages) within your site displayed (on
the top, on the side, at the bottom...).
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7. Set up a UNM CIRT account, if you don't
already have one.
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8. Activate your web space (directions
on handout).
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9. Begin to make your home page in Netscape
Composer. Save it with the name 'index' as an 'html' file on a disk.
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10. When you think you're ready to put
your page on the web, 'publish' it (directions on handout).
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11. Make sure that you do a 'web update'
through telnet every time you publish a new page or graphic (directions
on handout).
Note: make sure that you
back up your files onto a disk, especially if you are working on a computer
that's not yours.