Blog, Wiki, and Website Design

 

 

Embedding files or video into blogs, websites, or wikis

 

Embedit.in: Embed files or video into blogs, websites, or wikis

 

 

Blogs

 

Jennifer Apple: Photoshop: Blog design

 

Wordpress: Basics of Wordpress site design

 

Gina Highes and Lynda Keeler: Blog Design

 

Glogster: Create poster-like covers and blogs

 

Budd, A. (2006). Blog Design Futures. New York: Apress.

 

Stone, B. (2002). Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content. New York: New Riders Press.

 

 

Wikis

 

Wiki Design Principles

 

Design Patterns for EduWikis

 

M. C. Morgan, Notes Towards a Rhetoric of Wiki

 

 

Creating web pages (for students)

 

8 Ways to Build Websites (Not Blogs) for Free 

 

Website Design

 

Activities for creating Web pages in iWeb

 

Sproutbuilder: Create websites

 

Wix: free websites

 

Adobe Dreamweaver

 

Apple iWeb: part of iLife (Mac only)

 

10 videos on creating websites

 

Coffee Cup: free web design tools for schools

 

Web Design for the Mass Media (online book)

 

Oracle: Think.com: create free sites

 

Make Your Own Web Page

 

 

Creating web pages (for teachers)

 

8 Ways to Build Websites (Not Blogs) for Free

 

Sproutbuilder: Construct websites

 

Joe Rowe, Building Educational Sites with Moodle

 

Microsoft Expression

 

Netvibes: Incorporate different web services on one site

 

Writing Project

 

Teachers.net

 

Teacherweb.com

 

ClassNotesOnline

 

School Rack: free teacher sites

 

 

Designing web pages

 

WebSiteTips: Design and Layout: lots of links

 

eMints: Designing web sites using Dreamweaver

 

eMints: background images for web sites

 

Free Website Templates

 

Free Layouts: Free templates

 

Web-Design-Toy

 

Web Site Design

 

Open Source Website Design: free templates

 

Access It: Web Design and Development

 

Jenkins, S. (2007). Web design: The L line, The express line to learning. New York: Wiley.

 

Lopuck, L. (2006). Web design for dummies (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Wiley.

 

Robbins, J. N. (2006). Web design in a nutshell: A desktop quick reference. New York: O’Reilly Media.

 

Smith, B. E., & Bebak, A. (2006). Creating web pages for dummies, 8th ed. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.

 

Toporek, C. (2006a). “The weekend web site,” MacWorld, 59-66. Retrieved July 1, 2006, from http://www.macworld.com/2006/06/features/iwebmain/index.php