How To Build and Customize Your Own WebSite

Many tutorials and resources, both free and at low cost, can be identified to teach Web site design. The sites referenced here have been selected especially for teachers.

With the web editing tools available today, one no longer needs to learn HTML. However, a basic understanding will allow you to identify and correct simple problems with your web pages.

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How to Make a Website

wikiHow has a good overview on the steps needed when creating a web site. It includes the initial steps of answering "What is the purpose of your web site?" and gathering content, then selecting a hosting service and creating the site pages. A good place to start no matter what you plan to use to…  learn more

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HTML Goodies

With over 700 tutorials, this site helps new and growing website developers learn their trade, and provides tips, guides and reference sets they can use as they become more accomplished.  learn more

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W3 School's HTML Tutorial

Use W3 School's HTML Tutorial as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. The site can be used as an introduction, or allow you to plumb the depths of HTML and Internet coding.  learn more

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W3Schools Tutorials

Interested in the details? W3Schools has a wide range of free, in-depth tutorials for all things Internet -- from beginning HTML to Cascading Style Sheets to XML, programming and Web Services. Recommended by our webmaster. A good place to start if you want to create web pages or a web site. Covers everything from the…  learn more

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Yale's Web Style Guide

The style manual at Yale has been adopted by many schools and universities. Topics include graphical displays and positioning of information. Just as teachers have shown students models for writing essays for decades now Web page production models can be illustrated.  learn more