Building a Webpage

Web Design Help

I decided to compose this page in hopes it might be helpful. Never taking a web design course myself, I will try to share what knowledge I have gained through trial and error and from many other teachers who have web sites and who have helped me.

I have actually started a new Web site service. TS Web Designs. If you don't have the time to spend on building a web site, I would love to create one for you.

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Web Design is not just my job it’s my passion. I am a teacher by day and web designer by night, If you are a small business,  non profit organization, a teacher, who would like a classroom website, or anyone who is interested in a personal web site, I feel confident together we can design a great website for you.

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How do I get started with more elaborate pages?

 Where do you find your resources and graphics?

Structuring the Classroom Web site   

Before you begin, you should plan the structure of your classroom Web site. You might map out the main pages and secondary pages. A classroom Web site should include at least the following pages:

1. Home Page

The home page needs a title, perhaps setting forward some metaphor or theme that will be repeated in the rest of the site. Your home page should include your name (with a working e-mail link), perhaps an appropriate picture of yourself, and other attractive photographic or visual elements.

Your home page also provides links to the other main pages in yours site, including those for students, parents, teachers, your professional portfolio, your teaching philosophy, and any personal information. To achieve this, you should create a navigation bar, place in a consistent location on every page.

2. Student Page

On this page you may want to add links for your students, student work or writing you have done.  You can include "handouts" or resources for classes you teach, grading information, expectations, rubrics, etc.

3. Parent Page

Again, your parent page might link to your teaching philosophy, allow you to post student work, provide links of interest to parents and other sites you think parents would find important. 

4. Teacher Page

On this page for teachers and colleagues you can post links to lesson plans you have created, teaching ideas from professional journals and from the Web, links to professional teacher organizations, and other links, resources, or materials that might interest teachers or colleagues. 

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