FDN 5541: Advanced Web Design for Education

Integrated lesson - Demonstrate and discuss, in groups, your plans for an integrated lesson for which you developed an index page last week. Talk about your page in terms navigation, overview, design features, and instructional value.
Site design and navigation - Over 15% of the population have a learning disability (LD). In addition, a sizable percentage of the population is physically challenged or has related problems. Making your page accessible means a clear, well-formatted site can make it easier on everyone. Please read Designing Web Sites to be Disability Friendly for more information. Also, visit

No matter how useful a site is, an impractical navigation scheme will confuse visitors. A simple, understandable navigation scheme is critical to site design. Please Read "NAV 101" by Charlie Morris for more information. A great tutorial is available for this topic at: http://www.venusdesigns.net/frontpage/navigation.htm

Inserting basic web content - Here is a text formatting tutorial that will help you to place and format text in your web:

http://www.learningspace.org/tech/FrontPage/text.htm

Here is an image formatting tutorial that will help you to place and format images in your web.

Inserting Tables - Here's a quick explanation (and some screen shots) to help you add tables to your web page using FrontPage 2000.
Using Frames and/or Shared Borders - Frames and/or shared borders allow you to display both constant and variable content on each page (i.e., a navigation bar that stays consistent across multiple pages within a site). Here's a quick explanation of how to set each up in FrontPage.
Microsoft Teacher Tutorial for FrontPage 2000

Assignment: Using what you have learned here, add to the site you started creating last week. Add images, a table, and different formats of text. Make sure your site is free of any spelling errors.

FDN 5541: Adv. Web Design for Education