Web Resources
- If you would like a bit more background on the Internet, an excellent introduction titled “Internet 101” by UMW’s Andy Rush is available here: http://www.umw.edu/training/inte/internet/101/index.htm
- Andy has also created a short introduction to using web browsers: http://www.umw.edu/training/inte/internet/browsers.htm
- The Wikipedia has some good information about URLs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url
- Here is a good explanation of the Absolute vs. Relative link problem in more detail from the
- UMW Instructional Technology Specialist Andy Rush has created a very simple tutorial on HTML basics: http://www.umw.edu/training/inte/internet/basics/index.htm
- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had one of the first (and still one of the best) in depth HTML primer. You can see it here: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
- Andy Rush has created a Netscape Composer tutorial that you may find very helpful when it’s time to build the pages: http://www.umw.edu/training/inte/internet/composer/index.htm
- Jakob Nielsen is one of the pioneers in “web usability” (this is the study of the most effective ways to present and design information on web sites). This web site has a lot of good information that you can use to design and evaluate your site and pages. http://www.useit.com/
- The UMW Technology Assistance Center has created some web pages to help you with the process of accessing the H: drive using the web or FTP: http://www.umw.edu/technology/network/
- You can download the installer package for Netscape 7.2 from this site: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download_fullinstall.jsp . If you are a Windows user, be sure to download the “Windows (Full Version)” and not the “Windows (Navigator Only)” version.
- A good place to find images on the web is Google Image Search: http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=
- Another good place to find images is the Library of Congress web site located at http://www.loc.gov
- You can fix broken hyperlinks in your web pages by following these instructions.